If you're an American asthma sufferer without good insurance, an inhaler that costs $9 in Germany will cost you close to $300 here.
Money Over People
UnitedHealth has been facing growing criticism for dramatically overcharging the federal government and denying care claims that likely would have been approved under traditional Medicare.
Serious tax rates, apologists for our wealthy claim, can’t work. The stats suggest otherwise.
Excess corporate profits accounted for more than half of recent price increases. To stamp out inflation once and for all, we need to crack down on price gouging.
"Greedflation" rightly identifies who is responsible for this inflation crisis and opens up the range of policy solutions we have at our disposal to fight high prices and deliver relief for families.
These greedy companies drains our wallets, drills in our neighborhoods, and poisons our air, all while locking us into a future filled with climate-driven disasters.
The medical industry has eroded the Affordable Care Act's guarantees. Patients going in for preventive care, expecting that it will be fully covered, are being blindsided by bills, big and small.
The decades-long decline in corporate tax rates, justified by the bogus "trickle down" theory, has undermined the government's ability to finance critical public goods, from education to childcare.
On-going lawsuits against data brokers reveal just how non-existent our privacy has become. And AI has only made it worse.
Once you get into Medicare Advantage, if you have a couple of chronic conditions and you want to leave, you may not have any ability to switch back to traditional Medicare.
Doctors with histories of horrific malpractice, costing insurance companies millions in settlements, are getting hired by health insurance companies to determine what treatments they will cover, or not.
As corporate executives and rich shareholders reaped the benefits of rising profits, ordinary people around the world have suffered the consequences of soaring fuel, food, and housing costs.
Several Express Scripts employees received massive bonuses for inking a contract with a company that has already paid out $88.3 million to settle claims that it had defrauded Ohio's Medicaid program.
A Michigan law requires coverage of cancer drugs. One insurer came up with a “defensible” way to avoid paying for treatments that offered Forrest VanPatten his last chance for survival.
Federal regulations require insurers to promptly hand over records to patients facing claim denials. Some insurers only turned over their files after ProPublica reached out.
Medicare Advantage plans are not part of Medicare. They are a private health insurance "scam" created by a GOP-controlled Congress and signed into law 20 years ago by then-President George W. Bush.