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“These are the insurance companies and the middlemen that are siphoning public dollars and get in between our doctor and our care, pharmaceutical companies that hold us hostage, private equity and venture capital that own the delivery of care.”
Breaking Free From America’s Medical-Industrial Complex
Featuring Ana Malinow, MD, National Single Payer steering committee member
Code WACK! | Podcast Episode 336 | June 29, 2026
“Four in 10 people in the U.S. have some form of medical debt, research has found, and even relatively small unpaid bills can end up impacting patients’ credit access, financial future, ability to qualify for loans and jobs and mental health, advocates say.”
As Medical Debt Burdens Millions, Nonprofits and Some Governments Step In
Spectrum News 1 | Christine Santucci | June 29, 2026
“The steep drop in enrollment reflects what insurers, administrators, and other health policy experts expected earlier this year.”
5 Million Have Dropped ACA Insurance After Trump and the GOP Let Prices Skyrocket
NPR | Selena Simmons-Duffin | June 27, 2026
CMS “…threatened to halt enrollments in Elevance Medicare Advantage plans unless the company corrected … ‘substantial and persistent noncompliance’ with federal regulations that require health plans to submit accurate billing data and return any overpayments when they are discovered.”
Medicare Advantage Company Pays $342M to Government in Midst of Billing Probe
KFF Health News | Fred Schulte | June 26, 2026
“…though the affront to democracy that is Dobbs is still as real as can be, now, on its fourth anniversary, it has become apparent that it has a dangerous synergy with the calamity that is America’s crumbling healthcare infrastructure. In a word, the harm extends to us all.”
On the Dobbs Anniversary, Taking Stock of Women’s Health
The Contrarian | Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Joyce Vance | June 24, 2026
“…rural health systems in at least 25 states will need to rightsize to receive funding, NPR reported in April. That can mean cutting services, such as dialysis or labor and delivery, or subsidizing conversions to the Rural Emergency Hospital designation, which requires eliminating inpatient care.”
The $50B Rural Health Transformation Fund Is Pushing Many Hospitals to Shrink
Healthcare Dive | Michael Brady | June 24, 2026
“The US relies on a DIY model of care that pushes responsibility downstream. Rather than treating care as a collective obligation, the system expects families to purchase or provide whatever care they need and absorb the costs when they can’t.”
The Care Cascade: Interviews from Our Broken Care System
Roosevelt Institute | Jessica Calarco | June 23, 2026
“The average 6 percent increase in medical insurance coverage to employers over the past five years is double the already hefty 3 percent annual rate during the previous decade. The 6.7 percent hike was the highest of those in the past 15 years.”
Your Health Insurance Premiums Are Likely Going Up. Here is How Companies Are Trying to Limit the Pinch.
Inc. | Bruce Crumley | June 22, 2026
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