FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 CONTACT: Kawana Lloyd, 240-472-2860, kawana@megaphonestrategies.com; Kelsea Wilkerson, 972-951-6694, Kelsea@megaphonestrategies.com Ed Begley, Jr., Adam Arkin, Lily Tomlin, and Others Also Weighing in as HEAL California Continues Push for SB 562, Healthy California Act [November 8, 2017], HEAL California, a […]
Ohio voters reject measure to rein in drug costs By CASEY ROSS @caseymross. (NOVEMBER 7, 2017). STAT. [Excerpts only. Read complete article here.] AKRON, Ohio — A ballot proposal to rein in drug costs was soundly defeated in Ohio Tuesday after an expensive ballot fight that drew tens […]
In spite of Trump’s announcement last month that “Obamacare is finished, it’s dead, it’s gone,” it’s not gone. Nearly everyone is still required by law to carry health insurance. That requirement is called the Individual Mandate and it was included in the Affordable Care Act. The IRS recently announced […]
Insurers make billions off Medicaid in California during Obamacare expansion by Chad Terhune and Anna Gorman. (November 5, 2017). Los Angeles Times. [Excerpts only. Complete article here.] Medicaid is rarely associated with getting rich. The patients are poor, the budgets tight and payments to doctors often paltry. But some […]
Rising Health Insurance Costs A Worry For Some Aging People And Early Retirees By Steven Findlay and Pauline Bartolone. November 1, 2017. California Healthline Yvonne Read is getting ready to “get slammed” by another health premium increase. Read, 53, pays more than $2,100 a month for a Covered California family […]
Are Payers the Leading Cause of Death in the United States? Milton Packer wonders if people suffer and die because it is cost effective by Milton Packer MD. (November 01, 2017). MedPage Today [Excerpts only. Read complete article here.) On September 17, 2017 The New York Times and ProPublica collaborated on […]
How Well Does Insurance Coverage Protect Consumers from Health Care Costs? Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, 2016 (Excerpts only. Find complete report here . . . ) Toplines The share of U.S. adults who were underinsured in 2016 was up significantly from 2014 […]
Why We Need ‘Pull-No-Punches Reporting’ That Holds Big Corporations And Moneyed Interests Accountable Wendell Potter, Founder of Tarbell.org (10/25/2017) Huffington Post Nataline Sarkisyan might be alive today had I not been such a team player when she was so sick. Had I not been so focused […]
