Do Not Resuscitate: How We Spend Trillions to Enrich Intermediaries Instead of Making Ourselves Healthier

Code Green: How Profiteers and Big Finance Are Taking Over American Medicine

This week, we look at the launch of the Feds' drug price negotiations and the industry's howls of outrage over the threat to their yachts; hospice fraud and some overdue monitoring; the ongoing saga of Medicare Disadvantage hollowing out traditional Medicare; Medicaid redeterminations that are kicking millions out of that program; and a red flag over what Amazon and other one-stop urgent care shops do with your private health info. 

Code Green #3: How Profiteers and Big Finance Are Taking Over American Medicine

[SPL #313] This week's review highlights: a big legal win against New York City's attempt to force retirees onto Medicare (Dis)Advantage; the sad state of health communications in the U.S. post-Covid; how Pharma is pushing the "fat shots" for obesity and the new Alzheimer's drugs; and doctors are getting skimmed by finance companies managing electronic payments. Full archive @ nypan.org/single-payer-news and watch the FDA rewrite history at https://bit.ly/3DYpM15

Code Green: How Profiteers and Big Finance Are Taking Over American Medicine

This week, we look at how Pharma is pushing the "fat shot" to consumers and lobbying to get Medicare to pay for it, plus updates on the new Alzheimer's drugs, state actions on drug pricing and insurance, the abandonment of people suffering from long Covid, and a union battle against exorbitant salaries for hospital CEOs. 

Single Payer Links #311

We review the week's news in mainstream and specialty media about how we pay for healthcare in the United States and how we enrich intermediaries who extract rent from the practice of medicine. 
A print version of the full digest can be found at https://nypan.org/single-payer-news