Breaking News in Healthcare Reform
“…if Gov. Gavin Newsom gets his way … California could allow all remaining low-income unauthorized immigrants — an estimated 700,000 people — to join Medi-Cal by 2024, or sooner.”
California Opens Medicaid to Older Unauthorized Immigrants
Kaiser Health News | Bernard J. Wolfson | May 2, 2022
“Today’s staggering report highlights just how dangerous Medicare Advantage is for seniors when it comes to accessing needed care.”
Public Citizen: Medicare Advantage Denies Needed Care to Pad Insurer Profits
Insurance News Net | April 29, 2022
“…US Dept of Health and Human Services Inspector General quantifies the high frequency of unjustified denials of care authorizations and payments by Medicare Advantage plans.”
Medicare Advantage Plans Denying Appropriate Care
Health Justice Monitor | Don McCanne, MD | April 29, 2022
“Only 27% of Anthem’s $37.9 billion in revenues came from private-paying individuals and employers.”
Big Insurer Anthem Took In $38 Billion in the First 3 Months of 2022. Most of It By Far Came from Taxpayers.
Wendell Potter NOW | April 28, 2022
The CEOs at six major national insurers “earned” nearly $115 million combined in total compensation last year, according to the latest data filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Centene’s Michael Neidorff Was the Highest-Paid Payer CEO Last Year. Take a Look at What Other Execs Earned
Fierce Healthcare | Paige Minemyer | April 27, 2022
“Any barrier, it doesn’t matter how big, that keeps people from getting the services they need … our health care system is going to be paying for it for years to come.”
‘It’s Insanity’: Providers End Covid Care for Uninsured in the Wake of Congressional Inaction
Politico | Megan Messerly, Krista Mahr | April 27, 2022
“…conditions grew so dire that nurses and caretakers quit in droves, a state prohibited the company from accepting new residents, and some of the most vulnerable people in its care suffered and died.”
The Private Equity Giant KKR Bought Hundreds of Homes for People with Disabilities. Some Vulnerable Residents Suffered Abuse and Neglect.
Buzzfeed News | Kendall Taggert, John Templon, et al | April 25, 2022
“People from across the country are already looking to California as a haven state, as a beacon to provide them the care they need…. It is our moral imperative that we continue to provide the leadership that people are looking for.”
‘When You Don’t Know Where to Go, You Come Here:’ California Preps to Be a Haven for Abortion Rights
CalMatters | Alexei Koseff | April 25, 2022
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