How capitalists are holding us hostage... #anticapitalism #EatTheRich #FeedThePoor #activism #anarchism #socialism #BurnDownBanks #banks #finance #loan #loans #healthcare #medicine #healthinsurance #medicare
How capitalists are holding us hostage... #anticapitalism #EatTheRich #FeedThePoor #activism #anarchism #socialism #BurnDownBanks #banks #finance #loan #loans #healthcare #medicine #healthinsurance #medicare
Though #MikeJohnson had signaled openness to allowing debate on the proposal, he ultimately rejected a bid to do so by politically vulnerable #Republicans who had hoped for a vote that would, at the very least, allow them to show voters they had tried to avoid rising premiums.
#Trump #House #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #AffordableCareAct #ACA #subsidies #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
Speaker #MikeJohnson on Tuesday shut the door on a vote to extend #AffordableCareAct subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, bucking moderates in his party who had urged action to prevent millions of Americans from facing higher #health care costs starting Jan 1.
#Trump #Republicans #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #ACA #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/obamacare-subsidies-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Speaker #MikeJohnson on Tuesday shut the door on a vote to extend #AffordableCareAct subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, bucking moderates in his party who had urged action to prevent millions of Americans from facing higher #health care costs starting Jan 1.
#Trump #Republicans #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #ACA #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/obamacare-subsidies-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Though #MikeJohnson had signaled openness to allowing debate on the proposal, he ultimately rejected a bid to do so by politically vulnerable #Republicans who had hoped for a vote that would, at the very least, allow them to show voters they had tried to avoid rising premiums.
#Trump #House #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #AffordableCareAct #ACA #subsidies #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
Speaker #MikeJohnson on Tuesday shut the door on a vote to extend #AffordableCareAct subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, bucking moderates in his party who had urged action to prevent millions of Americans from facing higher #health care costs starting Jan 1.
#Trump #Republicans #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #ACA #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/obamacare-subsidies-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
What's the state of #HealthInsurance in America as #ACA subsidies are about to lapse: Spoiler alert: Not good.
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/business-health-insurance-america
What's the state of #HealthInsurance in America as #ACA subsidies are about to lapse: Spoiler alert: Not good.
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/business-health-insurance-america
In 2019 the (U.S.) state of Oregon capped hospital prices for state employees at 200% of Medicare costs. A study of 22 hospitals found that there were small but non-significant changes in hospitals' revenues, expenses, and margins as a result, while reducing state expenditures and patients' out-of-pocket costs.
Summary: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-oregon-nation-hospital-price-cap.html
Original paper (not open access): https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.00682
In 2019 the (U.S.) state of Oregon capped hospital prices for state employees at 200% of Medicare costs. A study of 22 hospitals found that there were small but non-significant changes in hospitals' revenues, expenses, and margins as a result, while reducing state expenditures and patients' out-of-pocket costs.
Summary: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-oregon-nation-hospital-price-cap.html
Original paper (not open access): https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.00682
"When this perfect storm strikes, an electoral bloodbath in the 2026 midterms is the best outcome Trump can hope for, on a list of dire possibilities."
#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein #food #prices #beef #coffee #tariffs #HealthInsurance #food
/10
"Contrast [what Bunch says] to a prominently displayed New York Times feature story that puts a nostalgic gloss on Epstein’s world. Looking back on that world and the people who inhabited it, it carried the headline, Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York."
~ Margaret Sullivan
#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein #food #prices #beef #coffee #tariffs #HealthInsurance #food #NewYorkTimes
/11
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/two-opposing-media-takes-on-epsteins
"The timing couldn’t be better, or worse, for this midnight of the elites. The overblown stock market fueled by an AI hallucination is set to burst any moment, and new hiring is already grinding to a halt — just as the price of everything from steak to coffee goes through the roof and health insurance is doubling or tripling for millions of Americans."
#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein #food #prices #beef #coffee #tariffs
/9
"When this perfect storm strikes, an electoral bloodbath in the 2026 midterms is the best outcome Trump can hope for, on a list of dire possibilities."
#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein #food #prices #beef #coffee #tariffs #HealthInsurance #food
/10
They bought #HealthInsurance promoted by #Trump. Then they needed surgery.
The cheap #health #insurance promoted by Trump officials has a catch.
Some states have banned “short-term” insurance plans with limited coverage, & consumer advocates have warned of the drawbacks.
#law #scammers #affordability #healthcare #HealthcareCrisis #CostOfLiving #economy #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #policy #USpol
https://wapo.st/4oRpNtt
They bought #HealthInsurance promoted by #Trump. Then they needed surgery.
The cheap #health #insurance promoted by Trump officials has a catch.
Some states have banned “short-term” insurance plans with limited coverage, & consumer advocates have warned of the drawbacks.
#law #scammers #affordability #healthcare #HealthcareCrisis #CostOfLiving #economy #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #policy #USpol
https://wapo.st/4oRpNtt
"Senate Republicans say they will only agree to extend expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) funds if Democrats accept new, stricter abortion restrictions on insurance plans, creating a major standoff that threatens to raise premiums for more than 20 million Americans next year. Democrats insist current ACA rules already comply with the Hyde amendment’s ban on using federal funds for abortion, calling any additional restrictions a nonstarter."
"Republican leaders, backed by anti-abortion groups such as Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, argue that states allowing abortion coverage through separate non-federal funding streams still violate their principles and want what critics call 'Hyde plus-plus,' a change that could block subsidies entirely in some states."
"We now have clarity on what Republicans are demanding in exchange for extending the ACA tax credits: new abortion restrictions that go even further than the already-strict Hyde Amendment. That is the price they’re trying to extract."
~ Aaron Parnas
#shutdown #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #abortion
/5
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-republicans-demand-abortion
"Senate Republicans say they will only agree to extend expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) funds if Democrats accept new, stricter abortion restrictions on insurance plans, creating a major standoff that threatens to raise premiums for more than 20 million Americans next year. Democrats insist current ACA rules already comply with the Hyde amendment’s ban on using federal funds for abortion, calling any additional restrictions a nonstarter."
"We now have clarity on what Republicans are demanding in exchange for extending the ACA tax credits: new abortion restrictions that go even further than the already-strict Hyde Amendment. That is the price they’re trying to extract."
~ Aaron Parnas
#shutdown #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #abortion
/5
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-republicans-demand-abortion
Venus Williams’s candid admission that she returned to tennis for health insurance spotlights the deep flaws in America’s employer-based system. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/11/world/all-that-is-wrong-with-health-insurance/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #venuswilliams #healthcare #medicine #healthinsurance #cobra
