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Ending the Medicare Advantage advantage
The outgoing Biden team just proposed MA plans receive an unwarranted 4.3% bump in payments next year. It could get a lot worse with the surgeon turned…
 • Merrill Goozner
The real freeloaders in our employer-based health insurance system
Employers fail to provide coverage for tens of millions of full-time workers, many of whom only qualify for Medicaid because of their near-poverty…
 • Merrill Goozner
A quick note on the Medicare cuts
It hits providers and insurers directly, not beneficiaries. People need to be educated about the impact — not the $500 billion number.
 • Merrill Goozner
The coming recession
Higher tariffs, rising inflation, slashed government spending, more uninsured -- what could possibly go wrong?
 • Merrill Goozner
The GOP's war against (their) states
The huge Medicaid cuts included in the House Budget Committee's spending blueprint will hit hardest in states that voted for Donald Trump.
 • Merrill Goozner
Lysenkoism marches on
The Trump regime, having already made savage cuts to research on topics it disfavors, now wants scientists to submit to political control.
 • Merrill Goozner
"Mr. President, do not come to Chicago."
I returned to a city in crisis after a long weekend away from Chicago. This speech by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker renewed my faith in the future of this…
 • Merrill Goozner
No cap in CAP plan
The Democratic Party-oriented think tank's entry in the health care reform debate provides little immediate help for most families with private health…
 • Merrill Goozner
Making America (and the world) unhealthy again
States with high birth rates will get more highway money. Quitting WHO, cancelling PEPFAR will remove the U.S. from the global AIDS fight.
 • Merrill Goozner
The fraudulent work requirement meme
The GOP leadership keeps trumpeting work requirements and fraud when asked where they'll find $880 billion in cuts to health care programs. That's…
 • Merrill Goozner
If only the GOP was more like Willie Sutton
If they insist on stealing from health care to pay for renewing tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy, they should go where the money is -- in…
 • Merrill Goozner
A bold plan to make health care affordable
Most working Americans have employer-provided health coverage, where costs are out of control. Here’s a plan to save money, put money in their pockets…
 • Merrill Goozner
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