A new report from Wendell Potter at the Center for Health and Democracy examines just how the private insurance market makes its money—and how American health care is worse off for it.
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Critical Tests for the Biden Administration’s New Team
If the new chief of staff and National Economic Council Director want to prove that they aren’t diverting the administration back to a neoliberal footing, here are a few options.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Republicans Furiously Defend Insurance Company Looting of Medicare
Medicare Advantage is a scam. That’s why conservatives love it.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Twilight of the Deficit Hawks
Democrats have stopped being the willing partner in a great conspiracy to slash social insurance.
Posted inTAP
Can Medicare Advantage Be Contained?
Today on TAP: The Biden administration is increasing audits of abuses—a good start, but not enough.
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Joe Manchin’s Dumb Budget Idea Already Failed Before
In 2011, Congress created a ‘super committee’ to come to a bipartisan compromise on austerity. It didn’t work.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Hospital Billing Is a Crime Against American Patients
A visit to a hospital in Europe is an eye-opener to the many ways monopolized U.S. hospitals pad their profits with unnecessary costs.
Posted inPolitics
The Worst-Case Scenarios of the Republican House
Outside of investigations, the GOP will try to use leverage from must-pass bills to force through ideological priorities.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Republicans Are Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare
The party of starving grandma returns to its roots.
Posted inPolitics
Republican Ideas on Economics Are as Bad as Their Ideas on Abortion
Democrats have gone all in on abortion rights as the primary midterm message. But pro-corporate, trickle-down GOP policies are worth highlighting too.