Category: News Feed/Stories

  “It is bad for patients’ health — and sanity — that the perceived promises of care in their insurance plans can suddenly disappear midyear.”     How Your In-Network Health Coverage Can Vanish Before You Know It   Sarah Feldman, 35, received the first […]

  “I don’t know where these investor groups can see savings without cutting back on the level of quality….”     Concerns Grow Over Quality of Care as Investor Groups Buy Not-for-Profit Nursing Homes   Shelly Olson’s mother, who has dementia, has lived at the […]

  “In a little more than two years as CEO of a small hospital in Wyoming, Dave Ryerse has witnessed firsthand the worsening financial problems eroding rural hospitals nationwide.”     Operating in the Red: Half of Rural Hospitals Lose Money, as Many Cut Services […]

  “If you went ‘anywhere in the world,’ you could get a prescription filled for 40% to 60% less than it costs in the U.S.” —Joe Biden on February 22, 2024, at a campaign reception     Biden Is Right. The US Generally Pays Double […]

  1.  Would Improved Medicare for All save money? YES. Study after study has shown that Medicare for All would save money  (except the very richest would pay a little more).    How? By eliminating middlemen (like health insurance companies, pharmacy benefit managers, and more) [...]