How decades of policy failures led to the ever-powerful UnitedHealth Group
Medicare
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Patient Zero
Tom Scully is as responsible as anyone for the way health care in America works today.
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A Sick System
The business of health care in America is deeply out of whack.
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The Pro-Corporate New York Times
Today on TAP: Its coverage is often biased and sloppy.
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Merck Says Negotiating Drug Prices Is Unconstitutional
The Inflation Reduction Act took minor steps against Big Pharma price-gouging. Merck is outraged.
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So Long but Not Farewell to Envision
The private equity–owned ER doctor practice, now headed to bankruptcy, was one of the defining companies of 21st-century American medicine.
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Regulators on the Verge of Bungling Drug Price Reform, Advocates Say
The starting point for negotiations with drug companies on prescription prices could end up being the too-high prices patients already live with.
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Born to Die
Medicare spends tens of billions of dollars on hospice care each year. A new report ponders why regulators insist on going easy on literal death merchants.
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Insurance Lobbyists Force Government to Heel on Medicare Advantage
But advocates see an opening for reining in the worst abuses of the program.