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Health and Wealth

WEBHealth and Wealth. by Lawrence Jacobs. May 17, 2004. A look at Americans' health reveals the astonishing inequalities in our society. American girls are born with a life …

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The Health of Nations

WEBThe Health of Nations. How Europe, Canada, and our own VA do health care better. by Ezra Klein. April 22, 2007. Medicine may be hard, but health insurance is …

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Building a Giant

WEBBuilding a Giant. Mapping UnitedHealth’s consumption of our health care system—from the ’70s to today. by Krista Brown, Sara Sirota. December 20, 2023. …

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Between You and Your Doctor: How Medicare Advantage Care …

WEBThe number is likely to continue to grow. As I reported for The Lever last year, the two million denials in 2021 represented a massive escalation from the 640,000 in …

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The Importance of the ‘VA Advantage’

WEBThe recent reintroduction of a Medicare for All bill in Congress, with the promise of hearings in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, offers another …

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A Community Hospital in Deep-Red Wyoming

WEBAfter significant cutbacks and tragedies at their private equity–owned hospital, the community of Riverton, Wyoming, tried something different. For decades, …

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How Hospitals Undermine Reproductive Rights

WEBThis insidious set of prohibitions by hospitals creates a variety of catch-22 dilemmas that deny women their rights. Some formerly Catholic hospitals, such as those …

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Long Live Community

WEBAccording to a Census Bureau report released last year, the share of total income going to the top fifth of American households increased from 40.5 percent to …

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Reversing Private Equity’s Looting of Hospitals

WEBAs reported by our colleague Maureen Tkacik and elsewhere, the basic story of the insider pillaging of Steward Health Care is this: In 2010, a money-losing Catholic …

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Housing First Can Work—If Done Right

WEBA homeless man walks with his dog along a street in the Skid Row section of Los Angeles, January 11, 2024. Despite enjoying decades of bipartisan support, …

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Dealing With the Bad Stewards

WEBThe entire Massachusetts congressional delegation has sent a letter to the management of Steward Health Care, demanding that they account for the several …

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The PBM-Insurer Mafia Comes for Community Pharmacies

WEBThe PBM-Insurer Mafia Comes for Community Pharmacies. UnitedHealth, CVS, and Cigna’s PBMs are using their market share and pull in Washington to drive …

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Zoomer Hackers Shut Down the Biggest Extortion Ring of All

WEBThe company, it turned out, had been attacked by an extortion ring of its own, a hacker UnitedHealth initially identified in a Securities and Exchange …

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‘Return What You Stole and Be a Man With Dignity’

WEBIt is Day 21 of the ransomware outage at Change Healthcare, a once-unknown repository of American health care data owned by the Minnesota health care …

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So Long but Not Farewell to Envision

WEBThis week, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that the notorious surprise billing mill Envision Healthcare would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection …

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Heads They ‘Cha-Ching!’; Tails They Take Away Your Malpractice

WEBIn early 2018, USAP bought the largest practice in Austin, which had an estimated 50 percent share of the hospital anesthesiology market, and instantly hiked its …

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Ten Reasons Why American Health Care Is so Bad

WEBAs a result. Americans are the most likely to say their doctor doesn't know important information about their medical history, which has obvious implications for …

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Company Behind Joe Namath Medicare Advantage Ads Has Long …

WEBThis article is a co-publication with HEALTH CARE un-covered, a website about the health insurance industry. It is available at wendellpotter.substack.com.. …

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Scenes From the Bat Cave

WEBThe exterminators alleged in court that Steward Health, Rockledge’s corporate owner, never paid them the $936,320 they were owed for “evicting” the bats …

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How Secret ‘Bondage Fees’ Trap Contracted Workers in Low-Wage …

WEBHow Secret ‘Bondage Fees’ Trap Contracted Workers in Low-Wage Jobs. Though the Federal Trade Commission is proposing to ban noncompete agreements, …

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The Corrupt Trifecta of Yass, Trump, and Netanyahu

WEBIn the past few days, we’ve learned that Donald Trump’s reversal on whether TikTok should be barred from the U.S. is mainly a payback to Trump mega-donor Jeff …

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How Everything Changed at Volkswagen in Chattanooga

WEBThis piece is cross-posted from Payday Report, a website about the labor movement. On a cold, drizzly Valentine’s Day in 2014, I spent the night at a UAW party …

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Republicans Say It Aloud: They Want to Raise the Retirement Age

WEBCan Republicans keep building their support among working-class voters? Not if the Republicans have anything to say about it. Earlier today, the Republican Study …

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