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The Devastating ‘Domino
Effect’ of State Budget Cuts
Featuring Jodi Reid, Executive Director,
California Alliance for Retired Americans
Breaking News in Healthcare Reform
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health policy, Medicare for All & California
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“…facility fees are often impossible to anticipate or estimate. They can range from $0 to thousands….”
US Patients Charged for ‘Hospital Facility Fees’ – Even If They Don’t Set Foot in One
The Guardian | Jessica Glenza | June 9, 2024
“Unlike physicians, who have a primary ethical duty to their patients, corporations have a primary fiduciary duty to maximize profits for their shareholders….”
Corporate Owners Put Profits Ahead of Patients and Doctors, Physician Group Says
Medical Economics | Richard Payerchin | June 6, 2024
“Over the last decade, nearly 50 maternity wards have closed across California, with more than half shutting down in just the last four years. Seventeen of them were in Los Angeles County….”
Money-Making L.A. Hospitals Quit Delivering Babies. Inside the Fight to Keep One Labor Ward Open.
CalMatters | Kristen Hwang, Ana B. Ibarra, Erica Yee | June 6, 2024
“More and more people are waking up to realize, we do not want private insurance companies to be in control of our healthcare system….”
‘We Can Get There’: Medicare for All Advocates See Resurgence in National Movement
Common Dreams | Julia Conley | June 5, 2024
“When a hospital denies and delays needed health care services, it is harming residents it’s supposed to serve, creating imminent danger to life and safety….”
Cancer Patients Say This Hospital Turned Them Away
NBC News | Gretchen Morgenson | June 5, 2024
“If a substantial share of the children losing Medicaid remain uninsured, as is likely, this means that a large number of low-income children are going without needed care, which will lead to poorer health in the short and long term while their families are exposed to high medical costs and medical debt….”
Millions of Children Lose Medicaid Coverage as State Enrollment Problems Persist
Association of Health Care Journalists | Joseph Burns | June 4, 2024
“…the US has a maternal care workforce shortage problem, which is only supposed to get worse….”
US Has the Highest Rate of Maternal Deaths Among High-Income Nations. Norway Has Zero
CNN | Jacqueline Howard | June 4, 2024
“In 2021, about 415,000 California households owed the Internal Revenue Service close to $690 million … related to Covered California subsidies, or an average of $1,662 per person or family….”
Why California Families Are Getting a Tax Surprise for Health Care
CalMatters | Lynn La | June 4, 2024
“Since passage of the 1965 Medicare law, special interests inside and outside of government have continually bent the intent of Medicare in order to maximize corporate profits at the expense of taxpayers, seniors, and the disabled.”
Washington Complicity in Half-Century Privatization of Medicare
Common Dreams | Michele Swenson | June 3, 2024
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