In a response to a request for information from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Public Citizen and several dozen...
Diane Archer
Congress focuses on health care mergers and Medicare payments
As hospital systems and insurers continue to buy up medical practices and grow ever larger, the consequences for patients and the health care system writ large are serious. In Congress, the House...
Scan Health plan wins suit against CMS on Medicare Advantage...
If you’re shopping for a Medicare Advantage plan, you might look at the number of stars the government has given it. Any Medicare Advantage plan with fewer than four stars should be avoided. But, a...
CVS plans to raise Medicare Rx premiums a lot in 2025
In an op-ed for MarketWatch, Brett Arens’s Roi warns about rising Medicare Part D premiums. The CFO at CVS is alerting people that Medicare Part D premiums will increase significantly in 2025. How...
Will the administration step in to curb prices on drugs...
For more than 30 years, the federal government has failed to rely on the Bayh-Dole Act to reduce the cost of prescription drugs developed with taxpayer dollars. US Senator Elizabeth Warren, along...
If you use an inhaler, your out-of-pocket costs should come down...
As of Saturday June 8, many people in the US will pay $35 a month out of pocket for their asthma medications, reports NBC News. AstraZeneca and Boehringer Ingelheim have agreed to limit people’s...
If Medicare Advantage can’t offer adequate provider...
People who need health care in Medicare Advantage too often find that the provider directories they rely on when choosing a Medicare Advantage plan are inaccurate. The Senate Finance Committee is...
Food prices are soaring as are profits at Walmart and other big...
If you spend any time at the grocery store, you can’t help but notice that prices are going up and up and up. The big corporations, like Pepsi and General Mills, say it’s all about supply chain...
What we don’t know about Medicare Advantage
[Editor’s note: The following is the response to a request for information about Medicare Advantage data gaps by the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services, from a coalescence of grassroots...
Dental crisis in the US: 20 percent of Americans have lost their...
One in five older adults in the US have lost their teeth. There is a dental care crisis. Jessica Glenza interviews Bernie Sanders for her piece in the Guardian on the need to improve dental care as...