medicare
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What Are Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Why Should You Care?
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) control drug pricing through opaque practices like rebates and spread pricing, driving up costs for patients, taxpayers, and insurers. Reform is…
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Behind the Shutdown: The Real Fight Over ACA Subsidy Spending
The real fight behind the government shutdown isn’t parks or Social Security—it’s whether to make a COVID-era “emergency” ACA subsidy permanent. That program has already…
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Bernie’s Medicare for All – A Fantasy That Defies Reality
Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All promises affordability but defies economic reality. With Medicare facing insolvency by 2028, expanding this broken system would devastate take-home pay,…
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AHEAD: A New Health Care Experiment With Familiar Flaws
Vermont’s participation in the AHEAD model highlights its reliance on federal funding, but critics question whether this new initiative will solve systemic issues or repeat…
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PBMs: The Hidden Middlemen Driving Up Drug Prices
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) control drug pricing through opaque practices like rebates and spread pricing, driving up costs for patients, taxpayers, and insurers. Reform is…
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VT State Health Plans to Undercut Hospitals-You Pay Full Price
Vermont’s plan to cap hospital reimbursements at 200% of Medicare rates shifts financial burdens onto hospitals while sparing private insurance. The real costs? Reduced services,…
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Bernie Sanders Decries U.S. Subsidizing Global Drug Costs—but Misses the Domestic Parallel
Senator Bernie Sanders criticizes Americans subsidizing global drug prices but overlooks a similar dynamic within U.S. healthcare. Medicare and Medicaid underpay providers, forcing private insurers…
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The Bait and Switch That Broke American Healthcare
The healthcare system’s dysfunction began with Medicare’s bait-and-switch: generous payments at first, followed by chronic underfunding. Hospitals are forced to inflate prices just to stay…
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