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...
Biden Continues Trump’s Ploy to Completely Privatize Medicare
A Trump-era pilot program that could result in the complete privatization of traditional Medicare in a matter of years is moving ahead under the Biden administration, a development that — despite its potentially massive implications for patients across the U.S. —...
LABOR: Kick the Boss Out of the Doctor’s Office !!
https://portside.org/2020-05-17/kick-boss-out-doctors-office Moving to a single-payer system could enable more unions to win excellent healthcare through group practice clinics for their members—an essential next step after winning universal access to care. Is the ability to negotiate healthcare benefits with employers...