Today on TAP: Why does the supposed advocate for the elderly steer them to the industry’s worst insurer?
Medicare
Posted inPolitics
Social Security Advocates Wage Early Fight Against Cuts
As Republicans discuss slashing earned benefits, Social Security Works vows to publicly target any Democrat who joins the congressional DOGE caucuses.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Manhattan Medicare Murder Mystery
Only about 50 million customers of America’s reigning medical monopoly might have a motive to exact revenge upon the UnitedHealthcare CEO.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Dr. Oz and the Stealth Destruction of Medicare
The TV doctor’s scams and fake cures are the least of what makes him so dangerous as Trump’s appointee to head Medicare and Medicaid.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Empty Hope for RFK Jr.
Taking on Big Pharma and Big Ag isn’t a one-man job.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
On Health Care, the Choice Is Progress or Indescribable Nightmare
Kamala Harris would make things better. Donald Trump would lay waste to health insurance and hospitals, and bring back measles and polio.
Posted inPolitics
Harris In-Home Care Plan Recognizes Information Gap on Seniors
Trump has been blanketing Pennsylvania with dubious claims that Harris would cut Social Security and Medicare.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
An Epic Dystopia
How a near-monopoly gained control of most of the nation’s electronic medical records, to the detriment of medical practice and doctor morale
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
From the Folks Who Brought You the Death Panel Algorithm
Three executives from an AI ploy to deny health care to seniors are buying a troubled mega-practice from the bankrupt Steward Health. What could go wrong?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Fantasyland General
Hospital pricing is impenetrable to consumers and regulators alike. The result: increased costs and profits, and wasteful reliance on armies of middlemen.