April 18th 2025
Businesses challenge authority to require health insurance coverage for free screenings for cancer, other ills.
April 17th 2025
Moves prompt praise from opponents of high costs of medications, PBMs.
April 11th 2025
‘Overly creative’ programs tally up to $2.7B in spending that will end, according to CMS.
Trump nominee Dr. Oz sets Medicare agenda with price transparency, detecting fraud
Experts say the lack of a consistent payment mechanism through Medicare has become a major roadblock to adoption.
Jobs, health care access on the line if Medicare makes another cut to physician reimbursement: survey
AMGA poll makes clear: ‘This is an inflection point … this is just not sustainable.’
Reps back reforms to Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, starting with physician reimbursement
Letter calls for prompt action to avert cut scheduled for 2025, says doctors’ pay should cover cost of actually delivering care to patients.
Trump and Harris on health care: Policy experts make their predictions
Business consultant BRG convenes analysts for look at health care direction under the presidential candidates.
Physicians in politics: Advice about running for office
Physicians in elected office share their thoughts about campaigning, elections and public service.
Physicians in politics: A day in Congress
Physicians in politics: Policy, financial insecurity and health
Physicians in politics: Good policy can lead to better health
Physicians in politics: Common language, different beliefs
Physicians in politics: Why run for office?
Physicians in politics: Why doctors need to get involved
Physicians in politics: The anatomy of an attack ad
Physicians in politics: On patient reaction and doctor leadership
U.S. needs to recognize value of primary care – and pay for it, AAFP leader says
The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, health care consolidation and the next president all can affect the nation’s health through primary care.
Feds must regulate ‘ghost guns’ made from untraceable components, physicians say
Doctors file brief for case pending at U.S. Supreme Court.
Covering pre-existing conditions or returning to pre-Obamacare? VP hopefuls Vance, Walz debate health care
They pitch their running mates’ ‘concepts of a plan’ or pledge to protect the Affordable Care Act.
Health care rising as important issue in presidential race
Patient advocacy group launches campaign to bring medical debt to forefront of voters’ minds when they go to the polls.
Will the 2024 presidential election affect the stock market?
POTUS election outcomes don’t typically affect stocks long term, but their uncertainty often has short term impacts.
Health cybersecurity lapses could lead to big fines, CEO jail time under new legislation
Change Healthcare hack prompts senators to say new rules are needed because ‘megacorporations … are flunking Cybersecurity 101.’
Ozempic, Wegovy are miracle drugs priced out of reach of patients, senators say
Senate HELP Committee grills Novo Nordisk CEO over prices of Ozempic, Wegovy. He says patients not getting needed medicines is ‘terrifying.’
FTC report on PBMs ignores evidence while trumpeting false claims, Cigna says
Lawsuit demands retraction of report from July.
FTC sues 3 largest PBMs for allegedly inflating insulin prices, shifting costs to vulnerable patients
Feds say anticompetitive business practices shifted costs to vulnerable patients.
‘We have to vote like our health care depends on it, because it does’
Countering apathy with encouragement, and a message for primary care and all physicians from the founder of the advocacy group Vot-ER.
Communities, patients, health care executives all play a role in getting out the vote
Physician founder of Vot-ER discusses health outcomes and reactions when physicians promote voter registration in health care settings.
Senators to Steward Health Care execs: ‘How do you live with yourself’ when gutting hospitals, communities, the American health system?
Witnesses describe dire hospital conditions created by ‘health care terrorists’ as lawmakers rip private equity investors for massive bankruptcy case.
If health care is broken, doctors and patients must ‘grasp the levers of change’ starting at the ballot box, advocate says
Physician founder of Vot-ER recalls the beginning of a national movement to advance voter registration in health care settings.
Trump vs. Harris on health care: ‘Maintain and grow’ the ACA, or develop ‘concepts of a plan’ to replace it?
Presidential contenders offer views on health care during televised debate.
Trump vs Harris: What will the next president do for health care?
The past has lots of indicators, but the candidates were mum in the summer about specific initiatives on major programs.
New medical school would address physician shortage and poor patient health
California physician-legislator supports bill to create training opportunities in region with notably poor health care access and health outcomes.
Physician politicians: Why doctors choose to serve -- and how you can too
Understanding the process of campaigning and why more doctors need to get involved in politics.
The war on private equity in health care – a 25 year lens
Blaming private equity for the woes of American health care is all the rage in our current era.