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Doctors’ offices are charging patients 10 times more by claiming to be hospitals wapo.st/48jJlQo
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“The rule would virtually eliminate the use of remote monitoring services, or dramatically reduce the use,” for many Medicare patients, a health policy expert said.
@Ajzionts reports ⤵️
kffhealthnews.org/medicare/r…
Opening The Black Box Of Medicaid Physician Payment: Medicaid Managed Care And State-Directed Payments | Health Affairs healthaffairs.org/doi/full/1…
And this is before most federal changes take effect. Increased uninsured means higher costs downstream and a more unhealthy workforce, school population, with preventable chronic diseases and deaths across the country.
A new report from the @commonwealthfnd reveals that the share of U.S. adults without health insurance has increased to the highest proportion since the Affordable Care Act took effect in 2014, surging from a record low of 8.9% in 2024 to 11.2% in 2026.
commonwealthfund.org/publica…
A remarkable new picture is emerging of how the air around us could harm the brain wapo.st/4zm4rtH
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“This is a historic day for New Mexico and for consumers across the country,” said Attorney General Raúl Torrez. “For too long, powerful technology companies have operated as though their size and influence put them beyond the reach of the law... We took on one of the largest companies in the world because New Mexicans deserve honesty, accountability, and the protection of their personal information. Today’s result makes clear that no corporation is too powerful to be held accountable.”
Official release linked in comments. #NMpol #NMLegislature #NewMexico
The US experimenting on one of the world's poorest countries for RFK's efforts lacking evidence based evidence is unethical. Doing harm to children is criminal.
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Good news: the extraordinarily unethical RFK Jr.-backed hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau will not proceed.
Withholding the birth dose from newborns would have put them at risk of preventable infection and lifelong consequences - including liver cancer.
Mark Cuban wants to crack open the market for rare disease treatments statnews.com/2026/10/21/mark… via @statnews
Bernalillo County Declares Fentanyl Emergency After 314 Overdose Deaths in 2025 as New Mexico Bucks National Decline medicaldaily.com/bernalillo-…
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NEW: We've just released an updated Sunlight Report on UnitedHealth Group.
Our research now identifies 2,807 entities across UnitedHealth's sprawling corporate empire, including 376 additional entities since our original report in 2025.
Here's what the Center for Health & Democracy (@cforhd) found.
NEW: We’ve released the latest edition of our Sunlight Report on UnitedHealth Group!
Our updated research reveals 2,807 entities across UnitedHealth’s sprawling corporate empire, including 376 additional entities identified since our original report in 2025.
From its insurance empire and physician practices to pharmacies and surgery centers, UnitedHealth’s reach into American health care is enormous.
For more, check out the full Sunlight Report on UnitedHealth Group: sunlightreportinsurance.com/
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There’s still one insurance market where people with pre-existing conditions can be denied coverage: Medigap. 74% of Medicare Advantage enrollees have a pre-existing condition that could lead to a Medigap denial if they switch to traditional Medicare.
Q3 2026: UnitedHealth’s Profits Soar as it Covers Fewer People, Pays Less for Care, by @wendellpotter healthcareuncovered.substack…
Maternal RSV vaccine is effective, but few women opt for it, new data reveal cidrap.umn.edu/respiratory-s…
U.S. doctors are aging, raising concerns about patient safety wapo.st/4hIhdfw
Hospitals sue over revamped 340B rebate pilot healthcaredive.com/news/hosp… via @healthcaredive
