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Bay Area rally to end Medicare profiteering!
Friday, July 29 at 11:00 am
Join the rally in-person at the San Francisco Federal Building
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“At a time of growing concentration of ownership, the Justice Department must deny Amazon’s acquisition of One Medical.”
Sanders Joins Chorus Demanding Rejection of Amazon’s One Medical Purchase
Common Dreams | Kenny Stancil | July 22, 2022
“Now that Democrats have decided to try to pass a bill that includes only the two provisions Manchin has agreed to advance — prescription drug pricing and extending Affordable Care Act subsidies — the powerful pharmaceutical industry is fighting a lonely battle to stop it.”
Pharma is Mobilizing to Tank Democrats’ Effort to Cut Prescription Drug Costs
Truthout | Jake Johnson | July 21, 2022
“Covered California announced premiums will cost on average 6% more in 2023. That’s the largest rate hike in three years — though it’s still lower than in other states … a 10% average premium increase [has been] proposed by 72 insurers in 13 other states.”
Covered California Insurance Rates are Going Up in 2023 — But Not as Much as in Other States
LAist | Jackie Fortiér | July 20, 2022
“Senate Bill 250 will allow patients like my dad to get treatments they urgently need without unnecessary delays from insurance companies…. Curing my father’s cancer … was completely at odds with the goals of his health insurer.”
New Bill Pushes Insurers to Stop Playing Doctor
CalMatters | Vivian Gonzales | July 19, 2022
“The working conditions at the hospital are leading to a phenomenon called ‘moral injury’ among the workforce, doctors said. Moral injury is a type of trauma that stems from guilt, existential crisis and loss of trust after a person’s moral beliefs and values are violated….”
Silicon Valley Doctors Demand Changes After Death of Colleague
San Jose Spotlight | Tran Nguyen | July 19, 2022
“The specifics … are expected to be enshrined in a memorandum of understanding separate from the contract. That has raised some eyebrows, since MOUs are not typically binding in the same way contracts are….”
No-Bid Medicaid Contract for Kaiser Permanente is Now California Law, But Key Details Are Missing
Kaiser Health News | Bernard J. Wolfson | July 19, 2022
“Health and equity rhetoric aside, it’s all about profits for investors. Greed dressed up to be presentable in public.”
Value-Based Care Will Bring Value to Shareholders
Health Justice Monitor | Ana Malinow, MD | July 18, 2022
“The CEOs of approximately 300 health care companies collectively took home more than $4.5 billion in 2021….”
Health Care’s High Rollers: As the Pandemic Raged, CEOs’ Earnings Surged
Stat | Bob Herman, Kate Sheridan, J. Emory Parker, Adam Feuerstein, Mohana Ravindranath | July 18, 2022
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