Medicare for All without tackling the extreme consolidation in health care would just funnel money to corporate behemoths, a new report states.
PBMs
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Threat of Big Insurance
The industry is hugely lucrative, with endless sums of cash to influence lawmakers. A new report tracks 25 years of health insurance industry donations.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
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 inPolitics
Does Xavier Becerra Know What a PBM Is?
The question speaks to how in the Democratic Party, there is no price paid for the inability to govern.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Republicans Scramble for Health Care Ideas as Obamacare Deadline Looms
Next week, massive premium increases get locked in. The GOP has shown no interest in stopping it, or preventing any other increases in health care costs.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Meet the Connectors
Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
UnitedHealth Has 2,694 Subsidiaries and Affiliates. Is It Too Big to Manage?
This behemoth conglomerate might just be too monstrous for its own good.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump’s Order to Cut Drug Prices Would Raise Drug Prices
The so-called ‘pill penalty’ fix is a corporate favor designed to increase the period where prescriptions are immune from price negotiations.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Case Without a Judge
The logical, absurd end point of Donald Trump’s government smash-and-grab
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
UnitedHealth’s K Street Army
The health care conglomerate keeps former Hakeem Jeffries staffers and a Trump White House aide on its payroll.