What ‘Medicare for All’ Means After a Six-Year Strike for Health Benefits

They each remember that moment, just after dawn on a September day in 1991, when they walked out of the Frontier Hotel and Casino. There was music and singing — “Solidarity forever,” went the song. That first day, the atmosphere was more like a celebration than a work protest. But the strike would go on to last six years, four months and 10 days — one of the longest labor disputes in American history.

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Health Insurers’ Profits Topped $35B Last Year. Medicare Advantage is the Common Thread

Big-name health insurers raked in $8.2 billion in profit for the fourth quarter of 2019 and $35.7 billion over the course of the year. The common theme in their financial success? Growth in Medicare Advantage (MA). Of the seven biggest national insurers, all but one saw notable growth in their MA enrollment by the end of 2019.

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Congressional Candidates Go Head-To-Head On Health Care — Again

The California Democrats who fought to flip Republican congressional seats in 2018 used health care as their crowbar. The Republicans had just voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act in the U.S. House — and Democrats didn’t let voters forget it.

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Needy Patients ‘Caught In The Middle’ As Insurance Titan Drops Doctors

For five years, Rasha Salama has taken her two children to Dr. Inas Wassef, a pediatrician a few blocks from her home in this blue-collar town across the bay from New York City.

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Democratic Clash Over ‘Medicare for All’ Reaches New Heights in Debate

Democratic presidential candidates clashed in some of the strongest terms yet over the "Medicare for All" policy dividing the field at the Nevada debate on Wednesday night.

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Survey: 20 Million Americans Have Crowdfunded to Help Pay Medical Bills

An estimated 8 million Americans have started crowdfunding campaigns through websites like GoFundMe to pay for medical expenses for themselves or someone in their households, according to a survey released Wednesday,

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Trump’s Support for Bipartisan Senate Drug Pricing Bill May Not Be Enough to Push it Into Law

A Senate bill to control prescription drug prices seemed to have everything it needed: bipartisan backing, President Trump’s endorsement and broad public support.

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Following Individual and Family Plans Gain, California to Reopen Health Coverage Signups

More than 1.5 million people in California have purchased health insurance through a taxpayer-funded marketplace, state officials announced Tuesday, the first increase in enrollment after three years of decline.

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Employer Health Plan Spending Jumped 4.4% in 2018

Per capita health spending for the 160 million Americans in employer-sponsored health plans grew by 4.4% in 2018, the third consecutive year of increases above 4%, according to the latest annual spending report by the Health Care Cost Institute.

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Sally Pipes: What I’d Tell California’s Single-Payer Commission

On Jan. 27, California Gov. Gavin Newsom's new commission exploring the viability of bringing government-run, single-payer health care to the Golden State met for the first time.

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