Breaking News in Healthcare Reform
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“If you’re trying to figure out what care will cost under different plans … what you will quickly realize is that this is literally impossible.”
The ACA Marketplace Is a Scam Covered With the Veneer of “Choice”
Current Affairs | Nathan J. Robinson | July 2, 2022
“A national, single payer, universal, comprehensive, accessible, equitable health care system would abolish medical debt. Think about it. Why not just come out and say it?”
Medical Debt – Inadequacy of Mainstream Policy Options from Our Best Policy Think Tanks (Or: Public Policy Think Tanks are Not Thinking)
Health Justice Monitor | Ana Malinow, MD | July 2, 2022
“What we’re learning from the hospital data is that insurers are really bad at negotiating….”
How Much Health Insurers Pay for Almost Everything Is About to Go Public
Kaiser Health News | Julie Appleby | July 1, 2022
“…an individual can be expected to pay on average $7,000 per year or a family of four an average of $30,000, according to the Milliman 2022 Medical Index.”
Health Care Insurance Costs May Skyrocket in 2023 — Here’s Why
The Street | Brian O’Connell | June 30, 2022
“…health insurance took up, on average, 10.69 percent or $6,487.20 of the average annual income.”
Health Insurance is the Third-Highest Living Expense for Americans
Health Payer Intelligence | Kelsey Waddill | June 28, 2022
“We’re going to bill them, and we’re just going to have to wait and see.”
Will Health Insurers Continue to Cover Abortion Now That Roe Has Been Overturned?
Politico | Megan Messerly | June 27, 2022
“The state currently extends Medi-Cal eligibility to undocumented children, young adults and seniors…. The latest expansion of Medi-Cal [will] remove immigration status as a barrier to health care for all income-qualifying undocumented residents.”
Governor Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore Atkins and Assembly Speaker Rendon Announce Budget Agreement
CA Governor’s Office | June 26, 2022
“It is shocking to think that the future of so many women and girls has been dictated by politics rather than evidence-based opinion.”
‘Blood on Their Hands’: World’s Medics Condemn US Overturn of Abortion Rights
The Guardian | Lizzy Davies | June 24, 2022
“By the end of this decade, the government aims to put the last group of seniors, some 35 million of them still in traditional Medicare, into some version of managed care.”
One Way or Another, The Federal Government is Still Bent on Pushing Medicare into Private Hands
Center for Health Journalism | Trudy Lieberman | June 22, 2022
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