The Senate Finance Committee wants to create a new program to incentivize better practices. Critics say there’s an easier way: end kickbacks between suppliers and bulk purchasers.
Medicaid
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
700,000 Undocumented Californians Recently Became Eligible for Medi-Cal. Many May Be Afraid to Sign Up.
Advocates say outreach is needed to ensure deportation fears do not stop immigrants from applying.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Will Voters Hear About Donald Trump’s Deranged Health Care Agenda?
A second Trump term means tens of millions of people losing insurance and chaos in the hospitals.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Zoomer Hackers Shut Down the Biggest Extortion Ring of All
A ransomware gang cripples UnitedHealthcare. Could a comprehensive antitrust investigation finish the job?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Casualties of a Failed Health Care System
Why even an elite Boston hospital can feel like a makeshift infirmary in a war zone
Posted inTAP
The Insulin Shift
Today on TAP: Thanks to Democrats and the American Rescue Plan, insulin prices are going way down for everyone.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Building a Giant
Mapping UnitedHealth’s consumption of our health care system—from the ’70s to today
Posted inWorking in America
Labor Leader Ai-jen Poo Confronts ‘the Biggest Driver of Economic Inequality That Nobody Talks About.’
Care for children, the elderly and disabled is among the lowest-paying industries. Poo thinks federal investment could become reality.
Posted inWorking in America
Can Biden’s Executive Order Deliver for Care Workers?
Absent the Build Back Better bill, the fight for care workers continues at the state level, and with Biden’s executive order.
Posted inPolitics
North Carolina Shuts Government Off From the People
A change to public records laws, which takes effect today, allows legislators full discretion to retain, sell, or destroy their own documents.
