The 2020 Omnibus budget bill that President Trump just signed into law includes key provisions that improve Medicare. The combined $1.4 trillion appropriations bill and $900 billion Covid relief bill...
Diane Archer
Why Congress isn’t stopping ambulances from issuing...
The new federal law banning surprise medical bills does not do as good a job protecting people from unexpected bills as traditional Medicare–which does not allow them at all. It simply keeps...
Medicare coverage changes for 2021
Understandably, Americans fear the federal government these days at least as much as they value federal action. Federal action promoting the public good gets far less attention and credit than it...
Biden administration should remove Trump’s Social Security...
The Biden administration is going to have a lot of work to do in its initial days just in removing the Trump administration’s political appointees, among them those at the Social Security...
Government agency finds Medicare for all saves money
Matt Bruenig writes for Jacobin about the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate of the cost of Medicare for All. The CBO finds that, with Medicare for all, everyone in the country would...
New law prevents doctors and hospitals from sending patients...
People with traditional Medicare never receive surprise medical bills because doctors are not allowed to bill them directly for services they receive, except in the rare instances in which they have...
For-profit dialysis care puts off transplants
Lizzie Presser reports for Pro Publica on how the corporate for-profit health care system is rigged against Black Americans and puts shareholder interests ahead of patients’ care needs. Presser...
People with low incomes struggle to access care in US
The United States rations care based on ability to pay, creating severe health inequities. People with low incomes in the US are more likely to suffer from chronic conditions and struggle to access...
Biden has power to authorize free Medicare for everyone
President-elect Biden could guarantee everyone in the US affordable healthcare if he wanted to. David Dayen writes for The American Prospect that, because of the pandemic, a Biden...
Trump administration attempts to privatize traditional Medicare
The Trump administration is deep into rolling out a pilot plan that, over time, could privatize the public fee-f0r-service Medicare program unless the Biden administration hits the pause button on...