The number of Americans without health insurance is soaring this year. Last week’s Census Bureau report on the uninsured rate for 2025 is the last good news we’ll get for a while.
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The Onrushing Uninsurance Crisis
The uninsured rate is likely to soar to 11 percent this year. Skyrocketing private premiums are sure to follow.
Posted inHealth Care
Profiting From Inflated Hospital Prices
This week’s CPI report shows hospital prices continue to race ahead of price increases in other health care sectors. In the past year, so have hospital profits.
Posted inPodcast
Trump’s Not-So-Great Health Care Plan
Instead of making health care more affordable, Trump’s recently announced one-page plan is likely to raise costs and reduce coverage, says Georgetown University policy expert Edwin Park.
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A Year Spent Degrading Health
People will die, more will get sick, and many will forgo care because of the Trump administration’s assaults on public health over the past year.
Posted inHealth Care
Trump’s Concepts of a Non-plan on Health Care
The so-called Great Health Care Plan would do next to nothing to lower overall costs or premiums paid by individuals, families, and employers.
Posted inHealth Care
Republican Attacks on the Affordable Care Act Give Democrats an Opportunity to Court Small Business
Millions of entrepreneurs, small proprietors, and gig workers get their health insurance through Obamacare.
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Medicaid Needs Rebranding
Most beneficiaries of the joint state-federal program are not aware their health insurance comes from a program being vilified on Capitol Hill as riddled with waste, fraud and abuse.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, January/February/March 2020, Magazine
How to End the Democrats’ Health Care Demolition Derby
The fight over Medicare for All is destroying the party’s 2020 chances. “Medicare Prices for All” is the way out.
Posted inHealth Care, Political Animal
ObamaCare Is Looking Better and Better to Republicans
As Democrats increasingly embrace single-payer options, the GOP “realizes” that ObamaCare is what the people want.
