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Ten States Have Held Out on Medicaid Expansion. It's Left Millions of Americans Without Health Coverage.
The best health care story I have read in a very long time popped up on my computer recently with the intriguing, if somewhat ominous title, “Medicaid…
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Trudy Lieberman
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Bruised by Government Report, Cigna's Pharmacy Business Sues the Federal Trade Commission
Let me take you behind the scenes at Cigna to provide a glimpse into the reasoning behind the lawsuit the company filed this week against the Federal…
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Wendell Potter
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Therapy Patients Stop Treatment After ‘Pre-Payment Reviews’ Swell
A number of psychotherapy patients in the Northeast have stopped treatment because their insurer, UnitedHealthcare, is requiring substantial paperwork…
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Jeanne Pinder
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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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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
 • Wendell Potter
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More than half of every dollar spent by Medicare drug plans goes to private health insurers' pharmacy benefit managers and wholesalers
 • Wendell Potter
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Nightmare on Wall Street for Medicare Advantage Companies
 • Wendell Potter
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Litigator Pries Open Access to Health Plan Info, Helps Improve Fiduciary Duties
Watch now (2 mins) | The U.S. health care landscape is riddled with endless schemes that place profits ahead of patients. That’s why Congress has…
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Wendell Potter
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Important Reads: New Reporting Details Ghost Networks and Fighting Denials
Navigating behavioral health care in the United States can feel like a cruel game of hide and seek.
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Wendell Potter
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Her Surgeon Said She Needed The Operation. UnitedHealthcare Said No.
Robin Ginkel is a 43-year-old early childhood special education teacher in Minnesota’s Twin Cities area.
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Matthew Cunningham-Cook
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New Netflix Horror Flick “The Deliverance” Tackles Medicaid Troubles, Medical Debt
Lee Daniels' new Netflix horror film The Deliverance tells a tale of a family grappling with a demonic force. It also showcases the nightmares of the…
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Joey Rettino
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The Dirty Trick Health Insurers Are Playing That You Don’t Know About
The medical loss ratio (MLR) limits how much of your premium dollars insurers can use to pad their profits and for “overhead.” The thing is: They’ve…
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Wendell Potter
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Project 2025’s Medicare Changes Would Restrict Older Americans’ Access to Care and Imperil the Program’s Financial Health
Project 2025’s plan would lead to a multibillion-dollar giveaway to corporations that would limit older Americans’ health care choices while putting…
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Andrea Ducas
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Brian Keyser
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The Most Important Word in The Democratic Party Platform for Health care
This week the Democratic Party released its platform for the 2024 election, and the section on health care proposes changes that would go much further…
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Rachel Madley
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HEALTH CARE un-covered
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