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“The Affordable Care Act requires coverage for maternity-related care, but our analysis indicates that there is substantial variation among states in what services are actually included—putting pregnant and postpartum people at significant physical and financial risk.”
State Benchmark Health Insurance Plans Fall Short in Advancing Maternal Health
Center for American Progress | Colin Seeberger | April 30, 2021
“Health care improvements are minor and largely neglected in Biden’s new plan because he doesn’t want to arouse the ire of health care lobbyists.”
Biden Would Rather Build an Entirely New Welfare State Than Touch the Hospitals
American Prospect | Jon Walker | April 29, 2021
“Our large employer members … are tired of pouring tons of money into a broken healthcare market that delivers uneven quality at bloated costs.”
Survey: Large Employers Say Bigger Government Role Likely Needed to Control Healthcare Costs
Fierce Healthcare | Paige Minemyer | Apr 29, 2021
“A certain number of people just don’t want to take the vaccine, and for many of them it’s either because of concern over side effects or mistrust of the whole enterprise.”
California Faces Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Dilemma
Capital & Main | Mark Kreidler | April 27, 2021
“…the more the ACA is seen to be an indispensable, life-saving pillar of the country’s health care delivery edifice, the harder it will be to pull the rug out from under it.”
The More Biden Expands ACA, the Harder It Will Be for the Right to Cut It
Truthout | Sasha Abramsky | April 27, 2021
“Gov. Gavin Newsom’s awarding of the vaccine distribution contract to Blue Shield, a longtime political contributor … functionally removed community and rural clinics, and their institutional knowledge of their patients’ needs, from the state’s officially designated vaccination campaign.”
Why California’s Undocumented Immigrants Remain Vaccine-Resistant
Capital & Main | Mark Kreidler | April 26, 2021
“Health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group held a webinar to pressure its rank-and-file employees to mobilize against efforts in Connecticut to create a state-level public health insurance option.”
The Nation’s Largest Health Insurer Pressured Its Employees to Fight a Public Option
Jacobin | Julia Rock | April 23, 2021
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“All of this is possible because the federal government decommodified the entire program. It purchased the vaccines, intervened in the supply chain to increase production and distributed doses to public and private providers with a mandate to inoculate the masses. Washington determined that such an important resource should be distributed on the basis of need, rather than left to the free market.”
Single Payer Health Care is Having its Moment, One Vaccine at a Time
Newsweek | Rebecca Kolins Givan | April 9, 2021
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