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How Employers Can Easily Bend the Rx Cost Curve
Pharmacy benefits management has long been a critical strategy for “bending the cost curve” for employers that offer health benefits to their workers…
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Wendell Potter
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‘Moral Injury’ Enters Health Care Lexicon
Nurses and other caregivers join doctors in using the term as resources and autonomy disappear.
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Wendell Potter
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HEALTH CARE un-covered's New Beat: Disintermediation
As I’ve written previously, before I left my job as VP of corporate communications at big health insurer Cigna, I was in a leadership meeting with the…
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Hospitals across the country are dumping Medicare Advantage plans and canceling their contracts with insurers
 • Trudy Lieberman
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The great Medicare Advantage marketing scam: How for-profit health insurers convince seniors to enroll in private Medicare plans
 • Matthew Cunningham-Cook
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BIG INSURANCE 2022: Revenues reached $1.25 trillion thanks to sucking billions out of the pharmacy supply chain – and taxpayers' pockets
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More than half of every dollar spent by Medicare drug plans goes to private health insurers' pharmacy benefit managers and wholesalers
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Nightmare on Wall Street for Medicare Advantage Companies
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Cigna said to be going after Humana to buy its way into Medicare Advantage
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“Senator, Saying It Doesn't Make It True”
How a Biden administration official refused to be baited by a senator’s Medicare Advantage talking points.
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Wendell Potter
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Where Does Medicare Go From Here: Profit-Driven Chaos or Patient-Centered Community?
After covering the Medicare privatization crisis for over two years, an investigative reporter takes a step back and examines what’s at stake.
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Matthew Cunningham-Cook
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UnitedHealth Group, the Biggest Private Health Insurer on the Planet, Made $8.5 Billion in Profits in Q1 2024
Meanwhile, many physician practices and hospitals nearly went under because of the cyberattack on the company’s Change Healthcare subsidiary.
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Wendell Potter
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How We Voted in 2016 Contributed to UnitedHealth's Acquisition of Change Healthcare
Also: Patient information may be even more at risk than we've been told.
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Wendell Potter
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Nightmare on Wall Street for Medicare Advantage Companies
Wall Street has fallen out of love with big insurers that depend heavily on the federal government’s overpayments to the private Medicare replacement…
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Wendell Potter
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The Heritage Foundation's Medicare and Social Security Blueprint
If Congress in the next year or two succeeds in transforming Medicare into something that looks like a run-of-the mill Medicare Advantage plan for…
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Trudy Lieberman
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BIG INSURANCE 2023: Revenues reached $1.39 trillion thanks to taxpayer-funded Medicaid and Medicare Advantage businesses
The seven big for-profit U.S. health insurers, which also control access to prescription drugs, have seen revenues increase by over 345% in the last…
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