Affordable to Buy, Costly to Use
When it comes to health care, the word “affordability” carries more than one meaning. Coverage can be affordable…
Trump Kicks His Dismantling of Veterans’ Health Care Into High Gear
Midway through the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s May 20 hearing on the VA’s advance budget request, Sen. Angus…
Corporations and the Crisis of Care
This article appears in the June 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue…
Does Xavier Becerra Know What a PBM Is?
The date was March 4, 2024. The Biden administration had set up a roundtable discussion on pharmacy benefit…
The Real Stakes Behind California’s Billionaire Tax Fight: Health Care Access
This article was produced by Capital & Main, an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political,…
Planned Parenthood Puts Its Thumb on the Scale in California
Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the abortion rights group’s political action committee, is entering the Democratic primary for California’s…
Rolling Back Medicare Advantage – The American Prospect
Connecticut public employees have just won a major victory over Medicare Advantage, the brand name for private-insurer HMO…
Corporate Hospitals Bilking Americans as GOP Destroys Health Care
The largest corporate health care hospitals in the country are consolidating their power and using it to rip…
Minnesota Health Care Workers Unite for Better Patient Protection Amid ICE Crackdown
This article is published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. The Department of Homeland Security’s…
Republicans Can’t Escape Their Self-Created Health Care Problem
Yesterday’s inflation report showed slower cost increases overall, which may have been tied to an absence of information…
Another Mass Staffing Purge at the VA
In late November, a mental health leader at a major VA medical center learned about a directive issued…
Despite Vow to Protect Health Care for Veterans, VA Losing Doctors and Nurses
This article was produced by Capital & Main, an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political,…