Insurers take Obamacare fight to SCOTUS, demanding $12 billion from the US

December 7, 2019 ACA, Government, health insurance, healthcare, law, News, obamacare, politics

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Google is secretively collecting health data, and American workers should be worried

November 26, 2019 Affordable Care Act, health, health insurance, healthcare, News

Earlier this month, Google confirmed it is collecting the comprehensive health histories of millions of Americans, through a partnership with the largest nonprofit health system in the US. This news should concern us all, but especially anyone who isn’t self-employed.

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For rural America, Medicare for All is a matter of life or death | Barb Kalbach

September 11, 2019 health, health insurance, Healthcare industry, News, Society, US politics

Insurance firms are gobbling up airtime in Iowa to attack Medicare for All. They claim it would hurt the very same hospitals their business model has spent years bleeding dry
Rural hospitals are often the economic heart of a community. Worse, when minutes mean the difference between life and death, every hospital that closes leaves patients in danger. Since 2010, 113 rural hospitals have closed their doors, leaving more than 30 million Americans an hour or more away from critical car...

Trump’s real 2020 weakness: healthcare | Lloyd Green

July 11, 2019 Democrats, Donald Trump, health insurance, Healthcare industry, News, Republicans, US politics

The Affordable Care Act – AKA Obamacare – is more popular than Trump and the Republican party realize. They’ve opened themselves to an ambush
Unemployment and inflation are low. America growls, but its sword is sheathed. Donald Trump should be preaching peace and prosperity. Instead, the president appears determined to make his re-election bid about healthcare and relitigate the 2018 midterms. If past is prelude, that tale doesn’t come with a happy ending for Trump or his party.
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Read Nancy Pelosi’s statement on the court ruling striking down the Affordable Care Act

December 15, 2018 ACA, Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump, health, health insurance, healthcare, law, mitch-mcconnell, News, obamacare, politics, texas

The Affordable Care Act was overturned Friday night (Dec. 14) by a federal judge in Texas, who declared it unconstitutional in light of recent changes to the US tax code.

While the decision is expected to move on to the US ...

The most important job in the world is one no one wants anymore

December 12, 2018 doctors, health care, health insurance, News

This story is part of What Happens Next, our complete guide to understanding the future. Read more predictions about the Future of Aging.

A lot of caregiving policy feels like it was written in the 1950s—because...

When it comes to longevity, we should look to the East, not the West

December 12, 2018 doctors, health care, health insurance, healthcare, medicaid, Medicare, News

This story is part of What Happens Next, our complete guide to understanding the future. Read more predictions about the Future of Aging.

The longevity era has arrived—and it looks different to your grandparents’ generation.

If you’re 65 ...

The most screwed-up employee perk in America (and the man who just might fix it)

December 10, 2018 Affordable Care Act, Government, health insurance, healthcare, medicine, News, obamacare, politics, US healthcare

The last time Atul Gawande started a company, he named it after a Greek myth.

Ariadne Labs, based in Boston, Massachusetts—where Gawande also works as a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and teaches at Harvard—has been trying since 2012 to innovate in an area that has historically resisted innovat...

The US now has more than 56.7 million freelance workers—and they vote

November 5, 2018 health care, health insurance, healthcare, News, politics

Freelancers are on the rise. And they’re rising up.

A new report from Freelancers Union and Upwork estimates that there are now 56.7 million Americans freelancers, an increase of 3.7 million in the past five years.

“The s...

The future of work will raise difficult questions. Are we prepared to confront them?

June 13, 2018 health insurance, healthcare, News, politics

On a hot day last May, entrepreneurs from all over the world packed themselves into a warehouse event space just off of New York City’s FDR highway for TechCrunch Disrupt. Half trade show, half Shark Tank–style pitch competition, Disrupt is a tri-annual gathering where s...