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

#HealthCare #HealthInsurance #Oregon

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

#HealthCare #HealthInsurance #Oregon

"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

"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

#GiftArticle

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

#GiftArticle

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

"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."

#Republicans #HealthInsurance #ACA #abortion
/7

"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."

#Republicans #HealthInsurance #ACA #abortion
/6

"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

#Senate Passes Deal to Reopen Government

The Senate, with the help of Democratic defectors, passed a bill to end the longest government #shutdown WITHOUT the #HealthInsurance subsidies #Democrats long demanded. The earliest the House will vote is Wednesday.

#healthcare #ACA #Medicaid
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/10/us/trump-government-shutdown-news/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share

#Senate Passes Deal to Reopen Government

The Senate, with the help of Democratic defectors, passed a bill to end the longest government #shutdown WITHOUT the #HealthInsurance subsidies #Democrats long demanded. The earliest the House will vote is Wednesday.

#healthcare #ACA #Medicaid
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/10/us/trump-government-shutdown-news/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share

Bullshit

Enough #Democrats voted with #Republicans to allow a spending deal that would reopen the government without the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies they had originally sought.

#ACA #Healthcare #HealthInsurance
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/09/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Bullshit

Enough #Democrats voted with #Republicans to allow a spending deal that would reopen the government without the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies they had originally sought.

#ACA #Healthcare #HealthInsurance
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/09/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Rep. Jasmine Crockett Calls Out Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Vote For ‘Big Ugly Bill’: ‘It Only Passed With One Vote’ https://shinemycrown.com/rep-jasmine-crockett-calls-out-marjorie-taylor-greenes-vote-for-big-ugly-bill-it-only-passed-with-one-vote/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #HealthCare #HealthInsurance #Congress #Politics #JasmineCrockett

Rep. Jasmine Crockett Calls Out Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Vote For ‘Big Ugly Bill’: ‘It Only Passed With One Vote’ https://shinemycrown.com/rep-jasmine-crockett-calls-out-marjorie-taylor-greenes-vote-for-big-ugly-bill-it-only-passed-with-one-vote/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #HealthCare #HealthInsurance #Congress #Politics #JasmineCrockett

Want to know why we really don't want to expand private health insurance in the UK?

How about what's happening to millions of Americans the autumn.... a massive spike in their health insurance costs (caused by the end of a period of subsidy).

What we do not need in the UK is the massive prejudicial US-like rationing of care based on ability to pay - its inhumane & socially disastrous... and the US is the perfect case study of that!

#health #HealthInsurance

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvee260n8eo

Want to know why we really don't want to expand private health insurance in the UK?

How about what's happening to millions of Americans the autumn.... a massive spike in their health insurance costs (caused by the end of a period of subsidy).

What we do not need in the UK is the massive prejudicial US-like rationing of care based on ability to pay - its inhumane & socially disastrous... and the US is the perfect case study of that!

#health #HealthInsurance

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvee260n8eo