The week in healthcare reform
“I hate that it took a crisis, but covid-19 allowed us to push back collectively, and we all realized that we’d have to get louder than we’ve ever been on public health.”
Unprecedented Lobbying Effort Scores Big Win for California Public Health
Kaiser Health News | Angela Hart | July 2, 2021
“The health insurance business model is antithetical to the American business model. They don’t necessarily make more money when they have more customers; they make more money when they have more customers whose healthcare they don’t have to pay for.”
Health Insurance 101: Companies Make Money by Denying You Healthcare
Detroit Metro Times | Abdul El-Sayed | June 30, 2021
“Independent physicians are becoming increasingly rare in the U.S.….”
Nearly Half of Physician Practices Owned by Hospitals, Corporate Entities, Report Finds
Healthcare Dive | Samantha Liss | June 29, 2021
“Kaiser’s criteria … try and fail four medications and electroconvulsive therapy … within six months of having her baby, or she couldn’t try [brexanolone] at all.”
There’s Only 1 Drug for Postpartum Depression. Why Does Kaiser Permanente Make It So Hard to Get?
KQED | April Dembosky | June 28, 2021
“…consumers are left exasperated by fruitless hours spent trying to find an in-network provider taking new patients and are haunted by out-of-network provider charges….”
San Diego Sues Molina, Kaiser, Centene’s HealthNet Over Alleged ‘Ghost Networks’
Healthcare Dive | Rebecca Pifer | June 28, 2021
“We do not have a system of long-term care in our country….”
COVID-19 Made America’s Long-Term Care Crisis Impossible to Ignore
Vox | Dylan Scott | June 27, 2021
Instead of considering Medicare for All, “the [Biden] administration is looking for ways to use Medicaid … to extend health insurance coverage to more Americans.”
Medicaid, Not Medicare, Is Where the Action Is So Far in the Biden Administration
Managed Healthcare Executive | MHE Staff | June 25, 2021
“We have this culture that if you have debt you have somehow failed, but particularly with medical debt, it’s not the case. It’s a system failure….”
Buying All of the US’s Medical Debt Would Cost Less Than $3 a Person
Quartz | Annalisa Merelli | June 24, 2021
“…most insurance plans are expected to drop their [COVID-19] cost-sharing waivers….”
Why Out-of-Pocket Costs for COVID-19 Care May Skyrocket in 2021
Healthline | Writer: Brian Krans, Fact checked: Jennifer Chesak | June 24, 2021
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