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“The pandemic shone a light on these big health disparities, but they also shone a light on the fact that [public health systems] don’t have the structures in place to partner directly with communities….”
States Have Yet to Spend Hundreds of Millions of Federal Dollars to Tackle Covid Health Disparities
Kaiser Health News | Phil Galewitz, Lauren Weber, Sam Whitehead | May 16, 2022
“…we estimate that had there been full health insurance coverage of the population, there would have been 60,000 fewer deaths….”
Exacerbation of COVID-19 Mortality by the Fragmented United States Healthcare System: A Retrospective Observational Study
The Lancet | Travis Campbell, Alison P. Galvani, Gerald Friedman, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick | May 12, 2022
“…CMS has been explicit that it wants to shift everyone now on traditional Medicare into a relationship with an ‘accountable care organization,’ or ACO, by 2030….”
Biden’s Little-Publicized Medicare Privatization Scheme Is Starting to Raise Alarm Bells
Jacobin | Branko Marcetic | May 12, 2022
“Guaranteeing healthcare as a right is important to the American people not just from a moral and financial perspective, … it also happens to be what the majority of the American people want….”
‘The Realistic, Humane, and Just Choice’: Sanders Unveils Medicare for All Act of 2022
Common Dreams | Jake Johnson | May 12, 2022
“Sanders contrasted the number of uninsured Americans with the multi-million dollar compensation packages for health insurance and pharmaceutical executives — namely those at Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and AbbVie.”
Bernie Sanders Pushes Medicare for All, Calls Out Pharma Exec Pay
Medical Marketing & Media | Jack O’Brien | May 12, 2022
“Wall Street’s encroachment into Medicare is the latest example of private equity’s aggressive expansion into health care…. In 2021, private equity managers deployed $172 billion in capital in the health care sector — nearly four times the total budget of the National Institutes of Health.”
The Stealth Privatization of Medicare Is a Big Boon to Wall Street
Jacobin | Matthew Cunningham-Cook | May 11, 2022
“The newly announced deal is now the largest health system merger on the books for 2022.”
Nonprofit Systems Advocate Aurora Health, Atrium Health Announce $27B, 67-Hospital Merger
Fierce Healthcare | Dave Muoio | May 11, 2022
“The performance spurred payers to raise financial expectations, painting an improved financial outlook for the full year compared to earlier estimates for 2022.”
Insurers Saw Profits Rise in Q1 as Cost Increases Weighed on Hospitals
Healthcare Dive | Samantha Liss | May 9, 2022
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