2+ week, 7+ hour ago   (806+ words) As millions of working-class Americans suffer from President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ cuts to the already dysfunctional US healthcare system, a leading anti-monopoly group this week released a report with recommendations to restore “affordability and control to patients, clinicians,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (844+ words) About half of U.S. adults say they can’t afford healthcare. California is among at least eight states that have set spending growth targets for the healthcare sector. It may soon impose enforcement penalties aimed at pushing hospitals and other providers to…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (460+ words) Interview by Julie Rovner and video by Hannah Norman for KFF The ongoing debate over the U.S. health system shouldn’t be based on whether the government or the private sector is the dominant player, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban said this week....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (727+ words) Medi-Cal enrollment among children has fallen by more than 460,000 since 2025. Medicaid cuts taking effect next year will push coverage even lower. By Mark Kreidler for Capital & Main From the outset of the Republican-led attack on federal Medicaid funding, health care…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (302+ words) The results have been creation of a system that our providers (the doctors and nurses) hate, which bankrupts a million or so people a year with medical debt, loss of rural health centers to financial stress, doctors, nurses,and aides…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (265+ words) On a side note–if you are denied on appeal and the processor is the one who denies your procedure, you can still appeal directly to the insurance company. Of course, this delays things for the patient even more–which…...