Sitemap - 2023 - HEALTH CARE un-covered
Mapping UnitedHealth’s consumption of our health care system – from the ‘70s to today
Cigna said to be going after Humana to buy its way into Medicare Advantage
Long-COVID patients face treatment denials, skepticism from clinicians
The top 10 recipients of campaign cash from seven health insurance industry PACs
Ady Barkan, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Be A Hero, dies at 39.
How the Nuka System of Care has improved the quality of medical care (and lives) of Alaska Natives
How UnitedHealth became Goliath, Medusa and mythical sirens all wrapped into one
Walgreens said to be courting a former Cigna/Express Scripts executive to turn the company around
NEWS UN-COVERED: health insurer rate hikes and Medicare Advantage ads in 2024
Health insurers find new way to drain the bank accounts of Americans with chronic conditions
[VIDEO] Poor Americans to feel the burn from health insurer Elevence's decision in Medicaid dispute
Dr. Daniel Hurley, advocate for health insurance reform, dies at 50
Cigna’s Q2 earnings put Wall Street on edge despite huge PBM business revenues
Elevance's Q2 profits make Wall Street investors (and company executives) happy and wealthy
Hospitals' latest "innovation": "patient-centric payment capabilities"
Doctors said "it was a matter of life or death." But their health insurer denied the claim.
Meet Dr. Hurley – a physician (and now a patient) bent on righting the wrongs of insurance denials
$335 million take-home: here are the 7 health insurance CEOs who made it big in 2022
An open letter to Congress: Is health care at a tipping point?
Finally, Big Insurance's Pharmacy Benefit Managers are being probed by Congress
A message large nonprofit hospitals should hear: "The judge will see you now…"
REVENUES OVER LIVES: health professionals' role in challenging the "medical-financial complex”
U.S. women enrolled in high-deductible health insurance plans are at risk of dying younger
Former PBM chief medical officer: ‘Our motives were murky at best’
The choice between traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage? It’s easier than you think. (PART 2)
Consolidations and profiteering: the relentless rise of hospital expenditures
The lunacy of 340B and Medicare’s inability to negotiate drug prices
"Confessions of a Former Carrier Executive": my keynote address at the 2023 YOU Powered Symposium
The choice between traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage? It’s easier than you think.
LIFE AND DOLLARS: a health care insider's account of how prior authorization really works.
What I'm Reading: Cigna's 2022 earnings; ProPublica's prior authorization series
Doctors and patients raise alarm about prior authorization
Big Insurance in-fighting: why it's so important that Cigna is suing CVS
What I'm reading in health care this week.
Welcome to HEALTH CARE un-covered (formerly Wendell Potter NOW)
Elevance Health's 2022 earnings are in, outperforms Wall Street expectations
A closer look: what you need to know about insurance companies' and PBMs' "copay accumulator" scheme
What I’m reading in health care this week.
The health care injustices that Dr. King spoke about are still here. And growing.
UnitedHealth Group's 2022 Earnings are in, PBM Optum outperforms health insurance division
Interested in the U.S. health care system? Here's what you need to know going into 2023.
In New York, the left and right are united in a fight against the corporate takeover of Medicare