Health insurance outrage--will anything be done? SPL #377 Jan 17 2025

On "Do Not Resuscitate" this week, there's a changed atmosphere in the debate about health insurance, but all the usual scams roll on, and the entire sector continues to merge and consolidate into giant platforms that control everything. Will the incoming Trump team take action or at least allow the antitrust initiatives of recent years proceed? We'll soon find out. Also, what did we learn/not learn from Covid? 

Below are links to all the articles cited this week. If you want my written digest by email, write me at tfrasca@yahoo.com 

Don Tracy, “Additional security measures taken for J.P. Morgan healthcare conference,” PharmExec.com, Jan 10, 2025 https://bit.ly/42eBDFp

Bob Herman, “Cigna, Centene, Walgreens drop out of J.P. Morgan conference,” STAT, Jan 13, 2025 https://bit.ly/3PAjGK4

Bob Herman, “Biden’s top antitrust official calls for breaking up powerful health care companies,” STAT, Jan 10, 2025 https://bit.ly/4gQaZrd

Tara Bannow, “DOJ seeks interviews with former UnitedHealth Group doctors,” STAT, Jan 12, 2025 https://bit.ly/4jexbwH

Paige Minemyer, “UnitedHealth, Amedisys ask court to dismiss DOJ's challenge to $3.3B merger deal,” Fierce Healthcare, Jan 9, 2025 https://bit.ly/4hgvf4T

Heather Landi, “Healthcare poised for ‘robust’ M&A activity in 2025,” Fierce Healthcare, Jan 6, 2025 https://bit.ly/3BZ17My

Erica Carbajal, “AWS, General Catalyst partner on healthcare AI tools,” Becker’s Health IT, Jan 13, 2025 https://bit.ly/40idlbc

Mario Aguilar, “Transcarent to acquire Accolade for $621 million creating benefits tech giant,” STAT, Jan 8, 2025 https://bit.ly/40fikt3

Heather Landi, “Digital health venture funding hit $10.1B in 2024 as investors focused on earlier-stage dealmaking,” Fierce Healthcare, Jan 13, 2025 https://bit.ly/40vgQw9

Dan Primack, “J&J strikes $14.6 billion deal for Intra-Cellular Therapies,” Axios, Jan 13, 2025 https://bit.ly/4ahJQL0

Drew Altman, “The semi-sad state of consumer protection in health care,” KFF Health News, Jan 7, 2025 https://bit.ly/3E6ggMw

Kristina Fiore, “Prospect is another casualty of private equity in healthcare,” MedPage Today, Jan 13, 2025 https://bit.ly/3CjfF9J

Sam Nunberg, “Vivek Ramaswamy is a fraud—and always has been,” Newsweek, Sep 1, 2023 https://bit.ly/4fWTi7N

Adam Feuerstein, “Cassava Sciences and its Alzheimer’s drug are done. The damage lingers,” STAT, Nov 25, 2024 https://bit.ly/4gez5Lb

Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Removing a splinter? Treating a wart? If a doctor does, it can be billed as surgery,” KFF Health News/Washington Post, Dec 13, 2024 https://bit.ly/3Pz060C

Maya Miller & Duaa Eldeib, “Her mental health treatment was helping. That’s why insurance cut off her coverage,” ProPublica, Dec 31, 2024 https://bit.ly/4hgTGzm

Owais Durrani, “I’m an emergency physician. The modern telehealth model should have all of us concerned,” MSNBC, Dec 28, 2024 https://bit.ly/40lceYj

Anastassia Gliadkovskaya, “Unionized doctors and NYC H+H affiliates reach contract deal on day of planned strike,” Fierce Healthcare, Jan 13, 2025 https://bit.ly/4hcQKUf

Helen Branswell, “What Covid tried to teach us—and why it will matter in the next pandemic,” STAT, Jan 6, 2025 https://bit.ly/4jcj9vn

Samantha Liss, “Indiana state senator moves to scrap hospital monopoly law he helped create,” KFF Health News, Jan 8, 2025 https://bit.ly/3CawlQM

Find the entire archive at www.nypan.org/single-payer-news