RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

Island insights that go beyond the tram.

RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

Reporting Roosevelt Island since sunrise.

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PROJECT 2025’S PLAN TO GUT MEDICARE AND MEDICAID

Conservatives plan to cut health care programs for low-income and senior Americans. Project 2025 aims to transform the US into a right-wing dystopia, targeting Medicare and Medicaid. Their proposed changes to Medicare Advantage and Medicaid raise concerns about coverage and affordability. Evidence contradicts their claims, and their approach seems to benefit wealthy elites. The impact on vulnerable populations is worrisome.

HEALTHCARE IS SICK — AND PROFIT IS THE DISEASE

Corporate consolidation is burning out healthcare professionals and killing patients. But there’s another way. By Jim Hightower | February 22, 2023 Your doctor is out and unable to see you now. Not out for lunch or out on vacation — but out…

How Medicare Advantage Plans Dodged Auditors and Overcharged Taxpayers by Millions

In April 2016, government auditors asked a Blue Cross Medicare Advantage health plan in Minnesota to turn over medical records of patients treated by a podiatry practice whose owner had been indicted for fraud. Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News and…

MEDICARE FOR ALL COULD SAVE MY LIFE

My insurance says my cancer drugs aren’t “medically necessary.” No one should have to fight for care like this.

Democrats Eye Medicare Negotiations to Lower Drug Prices

Emmarie Huetteman   March 23, 2021 Democrats, newly in control of Congress and the White House, are united behind an idea that Republican lawmakers and major drugmakers fiercely oppose: empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate the…