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Federal Safety Net Cuts are Hurting States, A “Bad Business” Fee Could Help
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (513+ words) Working people " and the state and local governments that represent them " are being pushed to the brink by deep federal cuts to essential programs like Medicaid'and'SNAP. Those cuts didn't happen in a vacuum. They were deliberately paired with a'trillion-dollar tax…...
Rural America Needs to Band Together Against Corporate Greed
2+ hour, 45+ min ago (696+ words) Last year, John Deere announced plans to go100 percent robotic by 2030. That's right: in just four more years, the world's largest tractor manufacturer plans to replace every corn and soybean farmer with robots. Farmers won'townthe machines, of course. Right now they…...
GAO Identifies Fraud Risk in Obamacare Exchanges. Where Was DOGE?
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (422+ words) A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) identified possible sources of fraud in the Affordable Care Act exchanges. GAO identified several ways in which fraudsters could game the system, such as submitting applications for people who do not…...
Enhance the Subsidies and Let the Insurance Industry Feed at the Federal Trough?
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (797+ words) Figure: The U.S. patchwork health care arrangement Source: Health Insurance Coverage of the Total Population | KFF; Veterans Health Administration; and ReportsSummary.pdf. To understand the government shutdown, it's important to delve deeper into the non-group, private health insurance (orange) slice of…...
Sick Profits: How Profit-Driven Healthcare is Bad for Our Financial and Physical Health
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (791+ words) William Rice is a policy consultant with Americans for Tax Fairness, where he is senior writer and the director of reports. Miriam Straus, JD, is a Policy Advisor at Community Catalyst, where she focuses on medical debt and the cost…...
Medicare Advantage is Shrinking and That's Not Necessarily Good News
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (270+ words) For those who have been critical of MA " seeing it as a confusing and bloated waste of billions of taxpayer dollars that often leaves seniors without the health coverage they need" " this might sound like good news. But it's not....
Beware of Health Insurance Companies Bearing Gifts
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (309+ words) Medicare Advantage was established during the Bill Clinton administration with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, when Congress approved the program initially known as Medicare+Choice. It was later renamed Medicare Advantage (MA) in 2003. WHAT IS MEDICARE ADVANTAGE? 1) Big Insurance revenues…...
How 17 Million Americans Enrolled in Medicaid and ACA Plans Could Lose Their Health Insurance by 2034
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (1083+ words) The big tax and spending package President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025, will cut government spending on health care by more than US$1 trillion over the next decade. In addition, regulations the Trump administration introduced earlier in the…...
Denying Coverage with AI: CMS’s New Medicare Model
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (1067+ words) On June 27, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services" (CMS) Innovation Center announced a new public-private partnership model called the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction ... The Trump Administration is bringing prior authorizations (PAs), the mandatory preapproval before insurance covers health…...