The uninsured rate is likely to soar to 11 percent this year. Skyrocketing private premiums are sure to follow.
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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 inJuly/August 2023
Don’t Blame Medicare for Rising Medical Bills, Blame Monopolies
For decades, hospitals have insisted that they charge the privately insured more to offset losses from Medicare patients. A health care regulator blows the whistle on that myth.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
The Hospital Industry’s No Good, Very Bad Day
At a Senate antitrust hearing, lawmakers appeared poised to finally take on health care provider mergers.
Posted inApril/May/June 2021, Books, Magazine
Sickness in Health
A journalist’s fly-on-the-wall coverage of one small Ohio hospital reveals the deeper story of America’s broken medical system—and the heartland’s decline.
Posted inHealth Care
Xavier Becerra Could Fight Hospital Consolidation as HHS Chief
His experience fighting Sutter Health’s monopolistic practices in California gives him insights he can put to use as Secretary.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, July/August 2020, Magazine
Why Hospitals Keep Their Prices Secret
They don’t want you to know what the other guy is paying.
Posted inFeatured, July/August 2020, Magazine
A Hospital Ranking That Makes Sense
Inside the Washington Monthly’s 10-year effort to redefine what “best” means in healthcare.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, Health Care, Political Animal, Politics, The Monopolized Economy
Health Care’s Biggest Problem Is Getting Worse
And 2020 Democrats don’t have a plan to fix it.
