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Will Surging Tide Of Uninsured And Spiking Hospital Costs Trigger A Recession?
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (603+ words) All of the health care sector’s major economic indicators are headed in the wrong direction. Major hospital chains last week began reporting a substantial rise in their uncompensated care costs after millions of people dropped health insurance. The Republican Party’s…...
Erupting Crisis Of Uninsurance, Created By Republicans, Will Soon Engulf US Families
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (48+ words) The GOP-fostered uninsurance crisis is growing faster than a newborn volcano, one that will do grave harm to those directly affected and later this year will begin spewing its molten crap on everyone.The Associated Press reported Friday that nearly…...
Health Insurance Premiums Are Set To Soar Just Before Midterm Elections
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (444+ words) Anyone whose employer provides health coverage knows the drill. Each fall, they are offered a menu of potential health care plan choices for the following year. But during the pandemic, health care cost began a rapid ascent to around 8-8.5 percent…...
Health Inflation Won't Stabilize Until Politicians Confront Monopoly Hospitals
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (266+ words) Today’s inflation report is a wake-up call for wannabe-be health care reformers. It provides the perfect opening for injecting how to control hospital prices into this year’s political debate.The overall inflation rate ratcheted up 4.2% last month, driven largely by…...
At 'Washington Post,' Bezos' Bozos Struggle To Justify High Drug Prices
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (274+ words) Two simple numbers show how ridiculous the Post’s argument is. Last year we spent over $720 billion on drugs and other pharmaceutical products. The industry spent around $150 billion on research. That means patients in the United States paid almost five times…...
As Health Insurance Premiums Spike, Inequality Worsens -- But There Is A Solution
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (463+ words) It’s not just people with Obamacare plans who face huge premium spikes next year. Workers with employer-based plans, which cover nearly half of all Americans, are also getting hit with very large increases in their premiums. One of those “other…...
How Trump's Patent Office Appointees And Big Pharma Delay Low-Cost Drugs
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (560+ words) What’s the easiest and smartest thing a president could do right now to bring down drug prices? That’s easy. Allow quicker market entry for generic versions of biologics. What’s the biggest thing the Trump administration has done in recent months…...
As Insurance Costs Surge, GOP No Longer Pretends To Support Universal Coverage
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (485+ words) The Trump administration’s wrecking ball has succeeded in shattering one of the core beliefs of centrist health care reformers, which states: Incremental reforms will eventually lead the U.S. to the promised land of health insurance for all—something most advanced…...
Overpriced And Overhyped: Is Medicare Advantage Sliding Downhill?
9+ mon, 5+ day ago (508+ words) Ready for a raucous yet serious look at Medicare Advantage? Check out HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver from this past weekend: No need to recap its highlights here, since I’ve written frequently about all of the issues he…...
Republicans Push Poor And Unaffordable Health Coverage As Costs Keep Rising
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (528+ words) Average Annual Worker and Employer Premium Contributions For Health Coverage 2015, 2020 and 2025 The median cost of employer-based health insurance this year leaped ahead at nearly twice the rate of the consumer price index, according to the annual Kaiser Family Foundation employer…...