Louisiana to warn thousands of elderly, disabled they may lose Medicaid
By Avery Anapol for The Hill Louisiana is reportedly set to tell tens of thousands of elderly and disabled residents this week that they may lose Medicaid benefits in the coming months. The state Health Department is preparing to notify 37,000 people that due to state budget cuts eliminating four Medicaid programs, they could lose their […]
Patients Protest MedStar for Terminating Their Doctor Without Cause
By Bill Hughes, Baltimore Post Examiner. A spirited protest action was held at MedStar’s Union Memorial Hospital on Thursday morning, May 10, 2018. The hospital is located at 3333 N. Calvert Street, at 33rd Street & University Parkway, in Baltimore. About 40 activists showed up for the rally/press conference, which was sourced by the Maryland branch […]
MedStar is a Non-Profit with For-Profit Policies; Closes Critical Programs
From The Baltimore Post. The following letter was sent to The Baltimore Post regarding the issue of Franklin Square’s decision to close some of their pediatric care units. It is the policy of the Post to protect the identity of individuals to express their opinion without fear of retaliation. The below letter is published as […]
How a Drug Company Under Pressure for High Prices Ratchets Up Political Activity
By Jay Hancock and Elizabeth Lucas, Kaiser Health News. Above photo: Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk’s logo is displayed at its headquarters in Bagsvaerd, outside of Copenhagen, Denmark. (Liselotte Sabroe/AFP/Getty Images) Business looked challenging for Novo Nordisk at the end of 2016. As pressure mounted over the pharma giant’s soaring insulin prices, investors drove its stock down […]
4 million working-age people lost health insurance since 2016
By Don McCanne, PNHP.org The Commonwealth Fund May 1, 2018 First Look at Health Insurance Coverage in 2018 Finds ACA Gains Beginning to Reverse By Sara R. Collins, Munira Z. Gunja, Michelle M. Doty and Herman K. Bhupal The marked gains in health insurance coverage made since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) […]
Trump challenges Native Americans’ historical standing
By Dan Diamond for Politico The Trump administration says Native Americans might need to get a job if they want to keep their health care — a policy that tribal leaders say will threaten access to care and reverse centuries-old protections. Tribal leaders want an exemption from new Medicaid work rules being introduced in several […]
DCCC Works to Squash Single Payer Health Care
By Zaid Jilani, The Intercept. For Democrats in Washington, the question of how to talk to voters about health care is a vexing one. In the wake of the election, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which works to elect Democrats to the U.S. House, commissioned a survey and analysis from Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and GBA […]
Wall Street Admits Curing Diseases Is Bad For Business
By Lee Camp for Truthdig Goldman Sachs has outdone itself this time. That’s saying a lot for an investment firm that both helped cause and then exploited a global economic meltdown, increasing its own wealth and power while helping to boot millions of Americans out of their homes. But now Goldman Sachs is openly saying […]
The US is entering a golden age of corporate medicine
The recent slew of mergers and acquisitions is part of a larger corporate transformation that is remaking American healthcare – for the worse By Adam Gaffney for The Guardian A golden age of corporate medicine may be dawning. A slew of mergers and acquisitions looks set to transform American healthcare, drawing health insurance giants, pharmacy […]
2018 Medical School Racial Justice Report Card
By White Coats for Black Lives. The Racial Justice Report Card (RJRC) consists of 15 metrics that evaluate an academic center’s curriculum and climate, student and faculty diversity, policing, racial integration of clinical care sites, treatment of workers, and research protocols. For our inaugural report, ten medical institutions were evaluated based on student/chapter interest in […]