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Mr. Witty Goes To Washington

The Press Is Beginning to Take Notice of How Health Insurers Are Raiding The Medicare Trust Fund

DEATH PANELS ABROAD: Cigna Whistleblower Reveals How Employees in the Philippines Play a Key Roll in Denying Care for American Beneficiaries

How a Former Big Insurance Executive, Terry Shook, Changed His Course in Health Care

Health Insurer Admits “Mistake” – and Still Sticks Disabled Veteran With $110,000 in Medical Bills

How Employers Can Easily Bend the Rx Cost Curve

‘Moral Injury’ Enters Health Care Lexicon

HEALTH CARE un-covered's New Beat: Disintermediation

“Senator, Saying It Doesn't Make It True”

Where Does Medicare Go From Here: Profit-Driven Chaos or Patient-Centered Community?

UnitedHealth Group, the Biggest Private Health Insurer on the Planet, Made $8.5 Billion in Profits in Q1 2024

How We Voted in 2016 Contributed to UnitedHealth's Acquisition of Change Healthcare

Nightmare on Wall Street for Medicare Advantage Companies

The Heritage Foundation's Medicare and Social Security Blueprint

BIG INSURANCE 2023: Revenues reached $1.39 trillion thanks to taxpayer-funded Medicaid and Medicare Advantage businesses

Leaked docs reveal extensive noncompete agreements at Epic Systems

The federal government will soon announce its payment rates and policy changes for the Medicare Advantage program. Here's how you can influence their decision.

Medicare Advantage gets walloped in the press as the federal government's rate notice looms

The PBM-insurer mafia comes for community pharmacies

I’m hosting a free webinar on Thursday. Here’s why you should tune in and how to register.

DEATH BY PAPERWORK: Watch NYT Opinion video on health insurers' "prior authorization" practices

Legislators and advocacy groups in Washington still have their sights set on PBM reform

The Knight Foundation and The Signals Network are changing the future of whistleblowing

New reports detail UnitedHealth's latest acquisitions under shady pretenses

President Biden proposes $2,000-a-year limit on prescription drugs

As Medicare Advantage's shortcomings echo in the press, key legislators still push to privatize traditional Medicare

Ascension Health, a big chain of Catholic hospitals, claims to advocate for a compassionate and just society. But its business practices and investments tell a different story.

UnitedHealth Group: vulnerable and ill-equipped to defend against modern threats like cyberattacks

BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR DOCTOR: How Medicare Advantage care denials affect patients

Five Medicare Advantage fixes we can all get behind (except the health insurance industry, of course)

UnitedHealth Group takes Wall Street hit because of investors' fears about Medicare Advantage profitability, Department of Justice antitrust investigation

Bi-partisan pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reform bill gets endorsement from AARP

Have insurance? Good luck finding an in-network mental health professional.

Company behind Joe Namath Medicare Advantage ads has long rap sheet of misconduct

Humana to shutter Louisville, Kentucky headquarters; top executives now working out of Washington, D.C.

Is the No Surprises Act backfiring on patients?

The Albatross Around America’s Neck: How health-care opacity neutralizes competition and fuels a corporate race to corner health-care markets

Massachusetts Wakes Up to a Hospital Nightmare

How the nursing home lobby uses it's political prowess to kill would-be regulations and line the industry's pockets

Your Money or Your Life

Strange bedfellows agree: PBM pricing reform cannot stop at Medicare, Medicaid

UnitedHealth’s self-dealing is accelerating

The great Medicare Advantage marketing scam: How for-profit health insurers convince seniors to enroll in private Medicare plans

More than half of every dollar spent by Medicare drug plans goes to private health insurers' pharmacy benefit managers and wholesalers

Marketing Medicare Advantage to seniors of color – even when it’s bad for their health

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