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Why does health care cost so much? It’s the prices
Why does health care cost so much in the US? It is not because we use more services than people in...
Nearly half of older households have no retirement savings
A new GAO report, based on a Survey of Consumer Finances from 2017, finds that nearly half of all...
Medicare for America helps commercial health insurers
Dylan Dusseault, Executive Director of Business Initiative for Health Policy, explains that...
How high will health care prices go?
The incentives are aligned among health care providers and insurers–they all prosper when...
Medicare for All benefits business and the economy
Medicare for All reins in national health care spending and guarantees health care as a right to...
Overpriced health care too often means bankruptcy
When Americans get sick these days, many hesitate to take an ambulance to the ER. Even with...
Trump budget proposal slashes Medicare, Medicaid and Social...
Last Monday, Trump released his 2020 budget proposal. In it, he calls for slashing Medicare, Social...
Oregon may cut off opioids from Medicaid patients in chronic pain
At the height of the Tea Party and Republican campaign against the Affordable Care Act, the GOP...
Judge finds UnitedHealth illegally denied care to thousands
CNN reports that UnitedHealth was found to have illegally denied care to thousands of its members...