8+ hour, 56+ min ago  (175+ words) Today, the Center for Health and Democracy Education Fund is launching a new tool, the Health Insurance Influence Tracker, as part of our ongoing work examining how giant health insurers have skewed the U. S. health care system away from working people…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (742+ words) The paper that exposed Medicare Advantage's $50 billion overbilling scheme is now urging the government to make it the default for every senior in America. During my two decades working for Big Insurance, I learned what industry spin looks like. I…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (337+ words) People are having to choose between going to the hospital and staying home and dying. Because at least my family won't be burdened with a lawsuit if I die at home." That's not a line from a dystopian novel. It's…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (391+ words) Just minutes after the New York Stock Exchange closed yesterday afternoon, the Trump administration announced that it will pay private Medicare Advantage insurers billions of dollars more next year than it had suggested just a few months ago. Trump's Centers…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (484+ words) United Health Group " the nation's largest health insurer and one of the most sprawling corporate empires in American history " has spent years building a health care monopoly hiding in plain sight. Now it's trying to make sure its own shareholders…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (694+ words) New Depths of Hypocrisy: A smart man once said, "Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption." After working in health care and with health insurance companies for almost 40 years I mistakenly thought that I had…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (675+ words) Some good news on the Medicare Advantage front today for a change: The federal government will waste only $76 billion of our tax dollars this year. That's down from $84 billion last year. Now the bad news: That $76 billion works out to…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (942+ words) If successful in these efforts, the insurers will further weaken physician practices and make them ripe for acquisitions, continuing the dangerous path of vertically integrated insurance corporations " and the further decimation of independent physician practices. In Episode 1 of the HEALTH…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (358+ words) The business of health care is not broken; it is working exactly how it was intended. It was designed for people to pay in just in case something happens and then not to pay out when it does. It was…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (305+ words) The business of health care is not broken; it is working exactly how it was intended. It was designed for people to pay in just in case something happens and then not to pay out when it does. It was…...