The TV doctor’s scams and fake cures are the least of what makes him so dangerous as Trump’s appointee to head Medicare and Medicaid. During the campaign, Trump and his surrogates went out of their way to claim that they had no plans to cut Medicare.
They have big plans to implement “massive” changes to the entire U.S. food, drug, and health care system—from killing ObamaCare and all its protections, to handing over control of all health, food, and drug policies and agencies to conspiracy theori
Insurers are dropping plans and slashing benefits.
Strong and resilient health systems are indispensable to protecting the population from the negative impacts of climate change on their health.
In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives. Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams, and Harry Hanbury, in a piece called “The Death of ‘Deliverism,’” argued otherwise.
The Biden administration hasn’t stopped trying to privatize Medicare. But a pushback is gaining steam.
The CDC is beholden to corporations and has lost our trust. We’re epidemiologists, nurses and physicians, artists and biologists. We have come together with a common anger at the US government’s handling of Covid
In the past couple of weeks, UK, Germany, France and others are experiencing a new wave. The US should get ready
Medicare Advantage was supposed to be a money-saver. It’s now become a costly, unaccountable cash cow for private insurance companies that is swallowing traditional Medicare.
There is “little evidence” that higher payments to Medicare Advantage are justified because their enrollees are sicker than the average senior.
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