The US claims to honour his memory, even as it defiles his dreams.
MLK Day Special: Class Struggle and Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK Day Special: Class Struggle and Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
Tag: Medicare Advantage
Health Insurance Whistleblower: Medicare Advantage Is “Heist” by Private Firms to Defraud the Public
Many of the nation’s largest health insurance companies have made billions of dollars in profits by overbilling the U.S. government’s Medicare Advantage program. A New York Times investigation has revealed that under the Advantage program, health insurance companies are incentivized to make patients appear more ill than they actually are. Some estimates find it has cost the government between $12 billion and $25 billion in 2020 alone. We speak with former healthcare insurance executive Wendell Potter, now president of the Center for Health and Democracy, who says Medicare Advantage will be recognized in years to come as the “biggest transfer of wealth” from taxpayers to corporate shareholders, and blames the lack of regulation over the program on the “revolving door between private industry and government.”
Health Insurance Whistleblower: Medicare Advantage Is “Heist” by Private Firms to Defraud the Public
Related:
‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions (archived)
Biden Hikes Medicare Prices And Funnels Profits to Private Insurers
The largest-ever Medicare premium increase will pad the pockets of insurance executives who donated millions to the president’s election campaign.
Biden Hikes Medicare Prices And Funnels Profits to Private Insurers
Related:
Medicare limits coverage of controversial Alzheimer’s drug to those in clinical trials
Trump Created A Program To Privatize Medicare Without Patients’ Consent. Biden Is Keeping It Going.
Under the program, insurers and doctors can negotiate to move patients to a private insurance stream. Patients don’t get a say.
Trump Created A Program To Privatize Medicare Without Patients’ Consent. Biden Is Keeping It Going.
Previously:
Congress ‘Asleep at the Switch’ as Biden Continues Trump-Era Ploy to Privatize Medicare
Biden moves forward with Trump Medicare privatization plan
Buzzfeed is a little behind (I first blogged about it, in November 2021), but here’s a reminder.
Congress ‘Asleep at the Switch’ as Biden Continues Trump-Era Ploy to Privatize Medicare
Biden moves forward with Trump Medicare privatization plan
Perfidy Meets Putty – Congressional Democrats Betray Voters, by Ralph Nader
Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page, Mar. 12, 2021 March 16, 2021
Do you remember the promises made by the Democratic Party’s presidential and Congressional candidates on universal health insurance? You can forget their pledges and somber convictions now that your votes put the Democrats in charge of the House and the Senate. The Democrats’ leaders are abandoning their promises and retreating into a cowardly corporatist future.
Perfidy Meets Putty – Congressional Democrats Betray Voters, by Ralph Nader
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