by Common Dreams | Nov 6, 2023 | Money Over People
Republished with permission from Common Dreams, by Brett Wilkins As Medicare Advantage plans rely increasingly upon artificial intelligence to determine—and often deny—payment for patient care, a group of Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Friday urged Medicare’s top...
by Thom Hartmann | Oct 31, 2023 | Money Over People
Republished with permission from Thom Hartmann Many of America’s oligarchs—the people whose great wealth and/or ownership of media properties gives them tremendous influence over our politics—believe they’re arguing for policies that will produce a “better” America....
by Common Dreams | Oct 20, 2023 | Money Over People
Republished with permission from Common Dreams, by Brett Wilkins U.S. consumer watchdog Public Citizen on Thursday excoriated Pfizer after the pharmaceutical giant announced it would more than double the price of a lifesaving Covid-19 treatment, which will soon sell...
by FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING | Oct 15, 2023 | Money Over People
Republished with permission from FAIR, by Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Justicia Lab’s Rodrigo Camarena about wage theft for the October 6, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: Investigation by the National...
by Thom Hartmann | Oct 11, 2023 | Money Over People
Republished with permission from Thom Hartmann President George W. Bush and Republicans (and a handful of on-the-take Democrats) in Congress created today’s Medicare Advantage scam in 2003 as a way of routing hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets...
by ProPublica | Oct 5, 2023 | Money Over People
Republished with permission from ProPublica, by Anna Maria Barry-Jester Ever since he was a medical student, Dr. Neil Martinson has confronted the horrors of tuberculosis, the world’s oldest and deadliest pandemic. For more than 30 years, patients have streamed into...