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Broken Promises: How Employer Health Plans Are Leaving Millions Underinsured and in Debt
With soaring premiums and rising out-of-pocket costs, employer health plans are pushing millions of Americans into underinsurance, leaving them unable…
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Trudy Lieberman
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NYT: I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit.
Read my full op-ed in The New York Times.
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Wendell Potter
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PBM Reform Momentum: Trump, Warren, Carter and Year-End Package Call for Big Insurance Middlemen Reforms
Many in Washington think it's time to untangle the web that makes prescription drugs so unaffordable.
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Wendell Potter
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America’s Seniors Are About to Pay a High Price for Wall Street’s Growing Disenchantment with Medicare Advantage
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Blue Cross Blue Shield To Pay Largest Settlement in U.S. Antitrust Health Care History: $2.8 Billion
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Hospitals across the country are dumping Medicare Advantage plans and canceling their contracts with insurers
 • Trudy Lieberman
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The great Medicare Advantage marketing scam: How for-profit health insurers convince seniors to enroll in private Medicare plans
 • Matthew Cunningham-Cook
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BIG INSURANCE 2022: Revenues reached $1.25 trillion thanks to sucking billions out of the pharmacy supply chain – and taxpayers' pockets
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Watch the New Mini Documentary "Overturned"
"Health insurance is the biggest scam in the history of the United States of America."
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Wendell Potter
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Family Forced by Cigna's PBM to Make a 9-Hour Drive for a Child’s Life-Saving Medication
Cristi Waltz’s fight for her grandson’s medicine exposes the dark underbelly of pharmacy benefit managers — and why lawmakers on both sides of the aisle…
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Wendell Potter
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No Place for Violence: Reflecting on the Tragic Death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
No matter how deep our grievances or how righteous our anger may feel, violence has no place in our society.
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Wendell Potter
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Tick-Tock: Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Dangerous Anesthesia Policy
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, part of the insurance giant that now calls itself Elevance, has taken another step to prioritize profits over patients.
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Wendell Potter
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Former Corporate HR Exec Leading Grassroots Effort to Help Employers Save
From foot soldier to platoon leader, Matt Ohrt blazed a transformative path in the pitched battle waged against health care fraud, waste and abuse…
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Bruce Shutan
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Stan Brock’s Legacy Lives On: Celebrating the Heroes of Remote Area Medical
So much of what we write about in HEALTH CARE un-covered is about the unrelenting greediness of the big corporations – Big Insurance in particular …
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Wendell Potter
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$3 Billion Wake-Up Call: How Litigation Is Holding Insurers Accountable
A landmark class action settlement reveals the common practices that inflate costs and burden doctors — and why litigation remains a powerful tool for…
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Wendell Potter
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