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“Employers will have to choose between taking the hit or passing the added cost to their employees….”
Employers’ Coming Health Care Crunch
Axios | Caitlin Owens | September 19, 2022
“…while the uninsured ran the highest risk of collecting medical debt, it was also common among people with private insurance — particularly those with high deductible plans or those on Medicare Advantage….”
1 in 5 Households Has Medical Debt. That Includes People with Private Insurance.
NBC News | Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | September 16, 2022
“While it is not discussed much in the corporate media or here in the halls of Congress, we have today in the United States the most inefficient, bureaucratic and expensive health care system in the world.”
On the Shambles of the American Health Care System and the Need for Medicare-for-All
CounterPunch | Bernie Sanders | September 16, 2022
“Corporations create a mythology of benefit for patients and apply aggressive business models and tactics to extract maximum profits, to the detriment of the rest of us.”
Pervasive Contamination of US Health System By Corporate Myths & Models
Health Justice Monitor | Jim Kahn, MD/MPH | September 16, 2022
“’U.S. prescription drug spending, which exceeds $400 billion today, is projected to reach nearly a trillion dollars by 2030,’ said I-MAK, a non-profit group of lawyers and scientists….”
Consumer Group Says Drugmakers Abuse U.S. Patent System to Keep Prices High
Reuters | Ahmed Aboulenein | September 15, 2022
“If the preventive services coverage mandate is partly struck down, the result could be a confusing patchwork of health plan benefit designs offered in various industries and in different parts of the country.”
Court Ruling May Spur Competitive Health Plans to Bring Back Copays for Preventive Services
Kaiser Health News | Harris Meyer | September 15, 2022
“Biden hopes to move the U.S. closer to the goal he set in February of cutting U.S. cancer fatalities by 50% over the next 25 years and dramatically improving the lives of caregivers and those suffering from cancer.”
Biden Hopes Ending Cancer Can Be a ‘National Purpose’ for US
Associated Press | Zeke Miller, Carla K. Johnson | September 12, 2022
“It’s a mistake to isolate the privatization of Medicare (MA and ACO REACH for traditional Medicare) from the exact same issues that affect private health insurance and Medicaid. Removing voracious for-profit entities from Medicare does not advance us to single payer unless we remove them from all health insurance….”
PNHP to CMS: End Medicare Advantage
Health Justice Monitor | Susan Rogers, Stephen Kemble | September 12, 2022
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