Breaking News in Healthcare Reform
“…we must continue the fight to establish healthcare as a human right, not a privilege.”
As Biden Continues Privatization Ploy, Sanders Vows to Reintroduce Medicare for All
Common Dreams | Jake Johnson | March 21, 2022
“Today, the three major national credit reporting agencies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — announced major changes to the reporting of medical collection debt. These changes will erase nearly 70% of medical collection debt from consumer credit reports.”
Billions of Dollars of Medical Debt Will Be Removed from Credit Reports
Forbes | Zack Friedman | March 18, 2022
“We don’t want anyone overcharging seniors or any other Medicare recipient for services and we don’t want taxpayers to be duped.”
Becerra: HHS Wants to Get ‘Money’s Worth’ on Medicare Advantage, Will Look Into Coding Practices
Fierce Healthcare | Robert King | March 18, 2022
“…payments to MA [Medicare Advantage] plans are inflated as a result of plans maximizing the diagnoses they report … in order to gain higher payments, while … diagnoses collected … from fee-for-service (FFS) providers … lack the same incentives to code diagnoses.”
Medicare Advantage Cost the US $12 Billion Extra in 2020: Watchdog
The Fiscal Times | March 16, 2022
“Health insurers that sell private Medicare plans collected $12 billion more caring for seniors in 2020 than it would have cost in traditional Medicare….”
Private Medicare Make Windfall for Senior Care
Axios | Adriel Bettelheim | March 16, 2022
“This policy looks like a classic but especially heinous example of corporate profit over all other considerations….”
Pharmacy Carve-Outs: How to Make Privatized Medicaid Even Worse
Health Justice Monitor | Jim Kahn, Don McCanne | March 15, 2022
“‘This elevates a very important … “single-payer principle,” which is “take control of costs and create a great deal of transparency on what consumers are getting,”’ said Dr. Mark Ghaly, Newsom’s secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency.”
California Aims to Limit Health Care Costs with New Office
Associated Press | Adam Beam | March 14, 2022
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