The MAHA movement built its brand on fighting corporate capture. Its big Washington summit is bankrolled by the companies it claims to fight, including two of the country’s largest health insurers...
Wendell Potter
Trump administration bolsters Medicare Advantage insurer...
Just minutes after the New York Stock Exchange closed yesterday afternoon, the Trump administration announced that it will pay private Medicare Advantage insurers billions of dollars more next year...
UnitedHealth makes it harder to see specialists in Medicare...
Theresa Schwartz, a 66-year-old Milwaukee plumber, says she’s one of those people who never went to a doctor before she was 40. That has changed in the second half of her life as she has dealt with...
Congressman Pocan introduces package of bills to strengthen...
Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI) introduced eight bills aimed at strengthening traditional Medicare and reining in some of the worst practices in the privately-run Medicare Advantage business. For...
Will insurers dump Medicare enrollees with high health costs to...
Wall Street is speaking loudly to Medicare Advantage insurers: If you want us to stick with you, keep dumping seniors who are pinching your profit margins. Investors continue to punish UnitedHealth...
DOJ takes on health insurers for price-fixing
In a significant move, the DOJ filed a “statement of interest” in federal court this week, siding with hundreds of physicians who accuse top insurers and a firm formerly known as MultiPlan —...
UnitedHealth overbills the VA by hundreds of millions of dollars
At a recent Congressional hearing in Washington, Rep. Mark Takano (D-California), the top Democrat on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, directed a series of questions to the CEO of the health...
UnitedHealth, CVS and Cigna helped fuel opioid crisis
[Editor’s note: I am reposting this piece because it brilliantly exposes how the drug middlemen “PBMs,” who are supposed to be delivering value to Americans, deliver value primarily...
Project 2025: A plan to destroy Medicare quickly
Project 2025 proposes to make private Medicare plans, also known as Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, the default enrollment option for beneficiaries. Similar to Trump-era programs that automatically...
US health care system ranks dead last among 10 of the...
The Commonwealth Fund this week released its biennial ranking of the health systems of 10 of the world’s richest countries, and once again the United States comes in dead last – as it has for the...