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Jacked Up Premiums & Chaos?
Why Your Health Care is on the
Line This November
Featuring Anthony Wright
Executive Director
Families USA
Breaking News in Healthcare Reform
Snippets of news & commentary with a special focus on
health policy, Medicare for All & California
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“…he couldn’t even find a primary care doctor who could see him within six weeks and refill his dwindling supply of antidepressants and antianxiety meds.”
‘I Don’t Want to Die.’ He Needed Mental Health Care. He Found a Ghost Network
Max Blau | NPR | September 22, 2024
“The suit calls the FTC’s findings ‘false and defamatory,’ while attempting to paint PBMs as the unsung heroes lowering prescription drug prices.”
Bruised by Government Report, Cigna’s Pharmacy Business Sues the Federal Trade Commission
HEALTH CARE un-covered | Wendell Potter | September 20, 2024
“The agency brought action against Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx on Friday, arguing their ‘anticompetitive and unfair’ rebating practices ‘artificially inflated’ the list price of insulin.”
FTC Sues Major Pharmacy Benefit Managers Over Insulin Prices
Healthcare Dive | Rebecca Pifer | September 20, 2024
“Congress has to protect families from a giant premium spike that’s coming next year when the middle-class tax credits for health care expire….”
House, Senate Democrats Renew Health Care Subsidies Push
Roll Call | Ariel Cohen | September 18, 2024
“Based on the new findings, people in the U.S. die the youngest and experience the most avoidable deaths, even though the country spends nearly twice as much — about 18% of gross domestic product — on health care than any other nation ranked.”
U.S. Ranks Last in Health Care Compared with Nine Other High-Income Countries, Report Finds
NBC News | Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | September 18, 2024
“California’s new cap on health care cost increases is regarded as the most aggressive in the nation.”
California’s Cap on Health Care Costs is the Nation’s Strongest. But Will Patients Notice?
CalMatters | Kristen Hwang | September 18, 2024
“Her family later told a coroner she hadn’t visited a doctor ‘due to the current legislation on pregnancies and abortions.’”
Afraid to Seek Care Amid Georgia’s Abortion Ban, She Stayed at Home and Died
ProPublica | Kavitha Surana | September 18, 2024
“It took 20 hours for doctors to finally operate. By then, it was too late.”
Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.
ProPublica | Kavitha Surana | September 16, 2024
“This year, four hospitals have shut down their maternity wards, with another four slated to close by November.”
California’s Maternity Care Crisis is Worsening as Newsom Decides on Bills to Slow Closures
CalMatters | Kristen Hwang, Erica Yee, Ana B. Ibarra | September 16, 2024
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