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As executive compensation at big automakers soars, so does health care costs for the companies, workers
GM CEO Mary Barra, who was paid $29 million last year — hundreds of times more than the average GM worker — used a talking point over the weekend that I…
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WSJ shows insurers make patients pay thousands for cheap generics while Brookings thinks Congressional PBM reforms could fall short
Over the past few days, both the Brookings Institution and The Wall Street Journal published reports on pharmacy benefit managers. Brookings researchers…
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After missing mid-year financial expectations, here are the ways big health insurers are going to get back into Wall Street's good graces
Hint: it will be at the expense of patients and taxpayers.
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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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Meet Dr. Hurley – a physician (and now a patient) bent on righting the wrongs of insurance denials
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First half of 2023: 7 big health insurers pulled in $683 billion in revenues – largely through taxpayer-supported programs and the pharmacy…
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Medicare Advantage plans have potentially deadly side effects. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services must act.
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$335 million take-home: here are the 7 health insurance CEOs who made it big in 2022
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VIDEO ANALYSIS: 7 big health insurers pulled in $683 billion in revenues
Watch the analysis below: While millions of Americans are drowning in medical debt, big insurers are swimming in cash. In the first half of 2023 alone…
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First half of 2023: 7 big health insurers pulled in $683 billion in revenues – largely through taxpayer-supported programs and the pharmacy…
But that wasn't enough to please Wall Street.
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The seismic shift in U.S. health care imposes big hurdles for providers as payors benefit from “flywheel effect”
In the “good old days”–let’s call that period pre-2008–the majority of commercial insurance was full-risk: increases came out of payor profitability…
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[VIDEO] Poor Americans to feel the burn from health insurer Elevence's decision in Medicaid dispute
Elevance had one of the highest denial rates among managed care organization (health insurers that provide services for a set monthly fee), according to…
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Elevance and other for-profit insurers find new scrutiny from lawmakers over their denials of care for Medicaid patients
You may recall that we published a piece earlier this month about how Elevance and other big for-profit health insurers are refusing to authorize…
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Dr. Daniel Hurley, advocate for health insurance reform, dies at 50
The health care reform movement lost a warrior but his mission will go on.
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Senators Warren, Grassley and others taking bi-partisan action to address business practices of non-profit hospitals
American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System, a documentary I helped produce, premiered in Washington on March 29. One of the main points of the movie is…
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HEALTH CARE un-covered
HEALTH CARE un-covered
Pulling back the curtains on how Big Health is hurting Americans and how we got to this point.
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