Medicare Advantage ‘Dark Money’ Group Attempts To Win Higher Payments for Insurance Companies

Judging by more than 16,400 comments recently posted on a federal government website, you’d think there was a groundswell of older Americans demanding that federal officials hike payments to their Medicare Advantage health insurance plans. Yet about 82% of the comments are identical to a letter that appeared on the website of a secretive advocacy ...

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Reckoning With State and Federal Cuts, Los Angeles Safety-Net Clinics Push for a New Tax

Federal cuts to Medicaid spending under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, compounded by fiscal belt-tightening in Sacramento, could cost clinics up to one-third of its annual revenue, requiring cuts to services.

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10 Projects From Newsom’s Mental Health Bond Were Supposed To Open In 2025. That Didn’t Happen

Projects that are supposed to offer mental health and substance use care to foster youth, new mothers, unhoused people and other vulnerable Californians have been delayed or cancelled.

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Despite New Federal Actions, Prescription Drug Worry Hits Highest Level Since 2018

A new report from the health policy research firm KFF, says the Trump administration has renewed focus on lowering the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S., including the launch of TrumpRx. The latest polling from KFF shows that about 4 in 10 U.S. adults (41%) say it is likely the Trump administration’s policies will ...

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One-Third Of Americans Cut Back On Other Expenses To Cover Healthcare In 2025, Survey Shows

Roughly one-third of Americans cut back on food, utilities or other daily expenses to pay for healthcare last year, research from ​the West Health-Gallup Center showed on Thursday, as steeper prices and ‌rising living costs hit households. A nationally and state-representative survey of nearly 20,000 U.S. adults in all 50 states and in the District ...

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Congressional Committee Says Seniors Paid Higher Premiums Due To Alleged Medicare Overpayments

A congressional committee’s investigators released a report on Tuesday that found the average ​American senior’s Medicare premiums last year were about 10% higher due to ‌alleged overpayments to private Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare Part B premiums that most seniors pay were partly pushed up by controversial health-insurer practices such as adding diagnoses to trigger higher ...

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