The week in healthcare reform
“…consolidation among health insurance companies continues…, leading to the potential for higher premiums and fewer choices for consumers and lower payments for health care services….”
Competition Continues to Shrink in U.S. Health Insurance Markets
AMA | Andis Robeznieks | October 8, 2021
“…drug costs represent the most expensive category for treating cancer patients. About $4 billion were spent on drugs to treat cancer, which is double the $2 billion paid out for surgeries.”
Cancer Costs US More Than $156 Billion Annually, With Drugs a Leading Expense
Science Daily | Matt Swayne | October 6, 2021
“The concentration of Black people in essential jobs did not develop through happenstance.”
Brookings Institution | Andre M. Perry, Joia Crear-Perry, Carl Romer, Nana Adjeiwaa-Manu | October 5, 2021
“‘I don’t want to bury another city employee, police officer, firefighter.’”
Los Angeles OKs One of Strictest US Vaccination Mandates
Associated Press | Christopher Weber | October 6, 2021
“Drug companies have spent $171 million so far this year on lobbying, far above any other industry, according to the watchdog group OpenSecrets.”
Ban On Negotiating Medicare Drug Prices Under Pressure
Associated Press | Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar | October 6, 2021
“…the D.C. Council has put Congress on notice that D.C. residents demand guaranteed, equitable healthcare for all.”
‘A Huge Win’: DC Council Passes Medicare for All Resolution
Common Dreams | Jake Johnson | October 5, 2021
“What establishment Democrats and Washington Post and NBC News editors are telling readers and voters is that advocacy for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and housing for all is some fringe ‘far-left’ agenda.”
No, Progressive Challengers Are Not “Far Left”
Jacobin | Arthur Tarley | October 4, 2021
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