The industry is hugely lucrative, with endless sums of cash to influence lawmakers. A new report tracks 25 years of health insurance industry donations.
Medicaid
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Affordable to Buy, Costly to Use
Health care affordability depends on access to care and the true cost of care, not just insurance premiums.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Real Stakes Behind California’s Billionaire Tax Fight: Health Care Access
A hospital CEO says looming Medicaid reductions threaten vulnerable residents and the state’s health system.
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Planned Parenthood Puts Its Thumb on the Scale in California
Health care is everything in the race for CA-22, but did Planned Parenthood pick the right candidate?
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Corporate Hospitals Bilking Americans as GOP Destroys Health Care
Patients are caught in the middle of a corporate money grab and lawmakers who refuse to regulate.
Posted inLaw and Justice
History Teaches: Reproductive Rights and Equality
A court in Pennsylvania gets it right, and the Fifth Circuit gets it wrong.
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Trump Showers Health Care Crooks With Love
His extensive pardons to health care executives convicted of various crimes show that his ‘war on fraud’ in blue states has nothing to do with fraud.
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GOP War on Health Care Destroying Hospitals at Home and Abroad
More than 800 health care facilities are at risk or have already closed since Republicans severely cut funding last year. The worst is still ahead.
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Trump’s Death Panel
The proposed cuts in several forms of health care spending are a real version of the fake ‘death panels’ that the right attributed to Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
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Killing Kids in Iran While Kids in the U.S. Go Hungry
For the money the U.S. is spending on war with Iran, it could be covering food stamps for 41 million people or Medicaid for 16 million people.
