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The U.S. experiment with profit-driven health care has failed

Woolhandler and Himmelstein are both general internists, distinguished professors of public health at the City University of New York’s Hunter College, and lecturers in medicine at Harvard Medical ... Read More

California labor union proposes ballot measure to tax billionaires to offset Medicaid cuts

SACRAMENTO — A major union announced a proposal Thursday to impose a one-time 5% tax on billionaires in California to address federal funding cuts to health care for low-income people. Related ... Read More

Elevance Health’s Profits Eclipse $1.1 Billion Despite Rising Costs

Elevance Health Tuesday said third quarter net income rose to nearly $1.2 billion despite rising costs in its government-subsidized health insurance plans including Medicare Advantage. Like many of ... Read More

What to know about the impacts Medicaid cuts are having on rural health care

Medicaid cuts are being blamed for the closure of a community health center in New Hampshire’s White Mountains ... Read More

The health care struggle is sharpening this fundamental tension in the GOP

The latest ideas from President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to reconfigure the Affordable Care Act face the same dilemma that every GOP alternative has confronted since Trump’s first ... Read More

Union pushes for billionaire’s tax as Medicaid cuts loom

A union-backed ballot initiative could make its way to California voters that would establish a billionaires’ tax to help fund Medicaid. According to documents sent to California Attorney General Rob ... Read More

Private Medicare, Medicaid plans exaggerate in-network mental health options, watchdogs say

Companies running private Medicare and Medicaid insurance plans inaccurately list many mental health professionals as being available to treat the plans' members, a new federal watchdog report says. Read More

California’s Health Insurance Marketplace Braces for Chaos as Shutdown Persists

California this week plans to notify Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollees that their costs could rise sharply next year unless Congress extends subsidies to help people buy health insurance. This ... Read More

Here’s who pays when undocumented immigrants get health care in America

As the government shutdown nears its fourth week, the White House and Republican lawmakers continue to assert that Democrats are to blame for the standstill because their health care demands would ... Read More