PNHP recommends CMS should terminate the Medicare Advantage Program
PNHP Comments on CMS file code CMS-4203-NC “Medicare Program; Request for Information on Medicare Advantage” CMS Should terminate the Medicare Advantage Program Physicians for a National Health Program August, 2022 Medicare Advantage is a program offering private health...
Fighting back on Medicare privatization
From: Betsy Zucker Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2022 To: HCAO National Strategy Committee Subject: Fighting back on Medicare privatization Three interesting recent items related to Medicare Privatization. 1. The Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO passed a “Resolution to Stop...
Getting Stiffed on Health Care — Yet Again !!!
Getting Stiffed on Health Care — Again Provisions passed by the House last year that subjected insulin products to Medicare price negotiation and capped Medicare insulin copays at $35 per month have been left out of the latest draft of...
Big Pharma Makes More Off US Sales Than Rest of World Total
https://truthout.org/articles/big-pharma-makes-more-off-of-us-sales-than-rest-of-the-world-combined/ ...
Oregon’s “Right to Health Care” Campaign Launches Measure 111 Website
https://righttohealthcareoregon.org...
Medicare Direct Contracting Threatens Seniors and Medicare’s Future
https://pnhp.org/system/assets/uploads/2022/02/SusanRogersWrittenTestimony_SenateFinanceCommitteeFeb2022.pdf?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=eabbed9f-2f13-406b-88f6-5dfd50209aab Medicare Direct Contracting: A Threat to Seniors and to Medicare’s Future Testimony before the: Senate Finance Committee Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth Dr. Susan Rogers President Physicians for a National Health Program February 2, 2022 ...
REACH Program “Reaches” to Privatize Traditional Medicare
Traditional Medicare is our nation’s most efficient and popular health care program with a cost for administration and overhead of less than 5%. A failed effort to privatize it, the Direct Contracting (DC) program, introduced by the Center for...
Letter to Editor – Medford Mail Tribune – April, 2022 – REACH Program
Editor, MailTribune Stop the REACH Effort to Destroy Traditional Medicare Traditional Medicare is our nation’s most efficient healthcare program with administrative costs under 5%. An effort to privatize it – named Direct Contracting Entities (DCE) – introduced by Center...
Letter to Editor – April, 2022, Grants Pass Courier re: REACH
Editor, Grants Pass Courier: Traditional Medicare is our nation’s most efficient and popular health care program with a cost for administration and overhead of less than 5%. Efforts are underway to change this. The Direct Contracting Entities (DCE) program, introduced by...