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“Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation.”
Endgame: How the Visionary Hospice Movement Became a For-Profit Hustle
ProPublica | Ava Kofman | November 28, 2022
“[Florida] managed care plans with Medicaid contracts could be paid close to $100 billion over the six-year period covered in the next round of contracts.”
The Mother of All Contracts: A Seismic Shift in Medicaid Program Could Be Ahead
Florida Politics | Christine Jordan Sexton | November 28, 2022
“… the US health care system puts small, locally controlled hospitals at a disadvantage.”
Why It’s So Hard for Rural Hospitals to Survive in America
Vox | Dylan Scott | November 28, 2022
“…deciding what cases qualify for a medical exception can be a difficult judgment call for doctors.”
Doctors Who Want to Defy Abortion Laws Say It’s Too Risky
NPR | Selena Simmons-Duffin | November 23, 2022
“All [police] need to do is know where [the abortions are] happening, then click and drag a box on a map and then follow all of the cellphones in the city to wherever they go next.”
Sneaky Ways Cops Could Access Data to Widely Prosecute Abortions in the US
Ars Technica | Ashley Belanger | November 23, 2022
“Most large hospitals today are losing money. They have overspent on capital equipment and lavish facilities and acquisition of doctors’ practices to attract patients for the most lucratively reimbursable procedures. That adds costs and leaves less money for basic care.”
Hospital Billing Is a Crime Against American Patients
The American Prospect | Robert Kuttner | November 22, 2022
“Employers have been able to shift some of the cost burden to workers through premium increases or high-deductible plans. But the tight labor market could provide an argument against that in the next two years.”
How Medical Inflation is Ensnaring Big Employers
Axios | Tina Reed, Oriana Gonzalez | November 21, 2022
“The AARP makes money through its own Medicare Advantage plans…. It would be understandable that it would try to protect one of its major income sources.”
Why Is AARP Boosting Medicare Privatization?
The Lever | Matthew Cunningham-Cook | November 21, 2022
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