The week in healthcare reform
Our Weekly News Roundup brings you snippets of news and brief commentary on topics related to America’s failing healthcare system, with a special focus on Medicare for All and California.
HCA Healthcare earned more than $7 billion in profits over the past two years … worth $36 billion … paid its chief executive $26 million in 2019 … received about $1 billion in bailout funds….
Hospitals Got Bailouts and Furloughed Thousands While Paying CEOs Millions
New York Times | Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Jesse Drucker and David Enrich | June 8, 2020
“Whether for economic, social or political reasons, our home confinement seems to be ending.”
Society Is Reopening. Prepare to Hunker Down at Home Again.
California Healthline | Bernard J. Wolfson | June 8, 2020
“UHC waived patient cost-sharing for COVID-19 because it can. The company made $5 billion in profit in the first quarter of 2020—that’s just profit, not revenue, in just three months.”
I Didn’t Have to Pay a Penny of My $320,000 COVID-19 Hospital Bill. Is That a Good Thing?
Slate | David Lat | June 8, 2020
“We know that the longer-term remedies to class, racial, ethnic, and indigenous health disparities require much bigger changes.”
Why COVID-19 Racial Disparities Make the Case for Medicare for All
Common Dreams | Dean E. Robinson | June 9, 2020
“…[I]t is tough to separate those who die at the hands of police from those who die in a pandemic that has laid bare the structural racism baked into the American health system.”
On the Minds of Black Lives Matter Protesters: A Racist Health System
ProPublica | Akilah Johnson | June 5, 2020
“… racial inequality underlies rage and despair….”
Behind Virus and Protests: A Chronic US Economic Racial Gap
Associated Press | Paul Wiseman | June 8, 2020
Americans are “mourning the past, worried about the present and fearful of the future.”
On the Future, Americans Can Agree: It Doesn’t Look Good
New York Times | Lisa Lerer and Dave Umhoefer | June 12, 2020
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