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H.R. 3467 Stinks

DOJ Questions UnitedHealth Doctors Re: Medicare Advantage Upcoding

The Fundamental Problem at the Heart of American Health Insurance

CMS is Trying to Expand Prior Authorization in Traditional Medicare Even Though All Data Points Say That’s a Bad Idea

DOJ’s Largest Health Care Fraud Takedown Ever Should Make Us Ask: Why Is Our System So Easy to Exploit?

Pharmacies In Desperate Need of an Antidote

The $8.6 Trillion Public-Private Partnership That Fails Us All

Empty Plates: The Quiet Crisis Facing America’s Elderly

Congress Could Force Patients in Rural America To Make Dire Medical Care Choices

Bipartisan GUARD Act Would (Finally) Make Insurers Pay — Not Just Veterans and Taxpayers

Health Insurance Industry Promises Reforms After $476 Million PR and Lobbying Campaign

The Fox Guards the Hen House – Translating AHIP’s Commitments to Streamlining Prior Authorization

NYC Retirees Are Victorious Against Mayor Eric Adams Medicare Advantage Push

For a Wall Street Lifeline, UnitedHealth Is Throwing Brokers Overboard

Let’s Empty the Junk Drawer of Prior Authorization

Republicans Are Turning on Medicare Advantage

Health Affairs: TPAs (Third Party Administrators) Are a Hidden Driver of Health Care Costs

Medicare Advantage Is Failing Its Mission. Here's How Washington Could Finally Fix It

International Yard Sale: UnitedHealth to Say Adiós to Latin American Subsidiary

Big Insurance Bet on the Wrong Horse

Case study of attempts at drug-pricing reforms in Ohio shows promise and peril for the Trump administration and Congress

The Leak UnitedHealth Didn’t Want You to See

CBO Sounds the Alarm: Trump Spending Package Could Deepen Deficit, Leave Millions Uninsured

Family Sues UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx and Walgreens Over Son’s Preventable Death

CMS's “Significant Expansion” of Audits Has Made UnitedHealth’s Bad Year Even Worse

The GOP’s Health Care Math: Pay More, Get Less

What MAHA and Public Health Experts Actually Agree On

The Real Medicaid Fraud? Pretending That Work Requirements Work

Health Affairs: Health Care Provisions in the “Big Beautiful Bill”

The Path to Health Care for All: Removing Extreme Waste

UnitedHealth Group’s Fight For Survival

Provision in Spending Bill Could Protect Health Insurers From AI-Accountability

The Path to Health Care for All Starts with Community-Based Primary Care

Growing Hotel Chain’s Caring Culture Pays Decades of Dividends

Big Shifts: CVS Is Pulling the Plug on ACA Coverage — And 1 Million Americans Will Pay the Price

They Cut Medicaid, Not the Waste: Congress Protects Big Insurance While Slashing Care

UnitedHealth Hits Panic Button: Ex-CEO Hemsley Reinstalled Amid Tumult

Hope, Then Heartbreak: Cigna Denies Life-Saving Transplant at the Last Minute

"I Don't Want To Die": A Night of Truth-Telling at WNYC

ProPublica’s Reporting on Blue Cross of Louisiana Reveals the Dark Truth Behind “Prior Authorization”

From the Operating Table to the House Floor: One Doctor-Congressman Takes Aim at Prior Authorization

A Dangerous Delay: How One Insurer Is Blocking Access to Breakthrough Medications

Medicare Scramble: Wall Street Wants Insurers to Dump Costly Seniors

A Playbook to Protect Insurers’ Medicaid ATM

The Medicaid You Don't Know You're On: How Rebranding Hides Threats to Your Care

Cutting Care From Patients Saves Only a Fraction of What Cutting Insurance Abuse Would

PBMs Are Duping Business Owners and Crushing Workers

More Perfect Union: The $140 Billion A Year That DOGE Should Go After [VIDEO]

UnitedHealth Group’s $9.1 Billion First Quarter Wasn’t Enough to Keep Wall Street Happy

Congress to GAO: Follow the Medicare Advantage Money

State-By-State, America is Taking on Big Insurance’s Pharmacy Middlemen

How the Affordable Care Act Drove Consolidation and Moral Injury – and What We Can Do About It

There is a Rebellion Against PBMs in State Capitals, Not Just in Washington

Some Tax-Exempt Hospitals Are Building Real Estate Empires

Who Killed the Corner Drug Store? In One Ruby Red State, PBMs Are Under Fire

Despite Overpayment Concerns, CMS Finalizes $25 Billion Hike in Medicare Advantage Payments for 2026

New Study: Even Subsidized Job-Based Health Insurance Has Become Unaffordable

Disclosure Drove This Leader’s Transition From Retirement Plans to Health Benefits

Not Just Democrats Anymore. Republicans are Mounting a Crackdown on Big Health Insurers

How PBMs Took Over the Prescription Drug Chain — And Left Patients and Pharmacists Paying the Price

A Health Insurance Scandal Unfolds in Texas

NYMag: The Confessions of Insurance Executives

Maybe the DOJ Will Be Tougher on Health Insurers Than Wall Street Thought

There is a Bi-Partisan Bill to Rein in PBMs and Lower Drug Costs. It’s a Step in the Right Direction.

Shrink Greed, Not Medicaid: Why Cutting Care for 20 Million Is Wrong for America

Cracks in Medicare Advantage Support: Grassley’s Scrutiny Follows Rural Hospitals’ Breaking Point

Report Shows How UnitedHealth Group Is Enriching Itself At The Expense Of Our Nation’s Veterans

Tireless Price Transparency Advocate Shows No Sign of Slowing Down

Cigna Once Put Employees in a Pink Palace Bought With Customers' Premium Dollars

The House is on Fire: A Call to Action for Orthopedic Surgeons

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley Sets Sights on Medicare Advantage

Gaming the System: Medical Loss Ratios and How Insurers Manipulate Them

Family Medical Heartbreak Drove an Outspoken Benefits Adviser to Slay the Status Quo

UnitedHealth Group Is Being Investigated by the Department of Justice

Medicare Falls Short: U.S. Seniors Struggle More Than Peers Abroad to Afford Care

Adult Swim’s Common Side Effects Show Pitfalls of Medicare Advantage

What Rural Electric Co-ops Can Teach Us About Fixing Health Care

NYC Public Service Retirees, 9/11 Survivors, Hit With Costly Copays in Medicare Fight

Health Care Analyst’s Focus is to Make Employers an Offer They Can’t Refuse

Big Health Insurers Make It Harder (and Pricier) to Stay HIV-Free – and SCOTUS Could Make Things Worse

UnitedHealth’s Reckoning: Wall Street Isn’t Buying the Blame Game

Eavesdropping on Power: UnitedHealth’s 2024 Earnings Call with Wall Street

‘Deny. Defend. Depose’: The Chilling Legacy of Managed Care and the American Health Care Crisis

CFPB’s Landmark Rule on Medical Debt: A Victory for American Families

From Darlings to Prey: Wall Street’s Alligators Snap at Big Insurance

WSJ: How UnitedHealth’s Diagnosis Game Rakes in Billions from Medicare