California Assembly Joint Resolution 4, which asks Biden to discontinue the privatized ACO/REACH Medicare program, has passed the California legislature....
There have been a series of recent public reports and discussions about fraud on the part of corporations participating in the Medicare Advantage program....
Access to abortion can be restricted or denied by employer-based for-profit health plans. This discussion, Abortion Access and the Right to Healthcare will discuss the advantages of a single-payer system...
Wendell Potter worked in the health insurance industry. He became very familiar with the manipulations and maneuvers of the for-profit systems. He now writes a newsletter and speaks to educate...
At the same time the New York Times published an article about non-profit hospitals using debt collectors to pursue indigent patients (-----), they published a second article detailing how a...
Germany began the first public health insurance system under Otto von Bismarck in the late 1800s. These “sickness funds” were initially intended to provide care for low income workers. Over...
Medicare Advantage was a way of channeling Medicare dollars into private for-profit companies before Direct Contracting Entities or the ACO/REACH program. Medicare Advantage programs require that 85% of income be...