Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Seniors Access to Rehab Care, Analysis Shows
People enrolled in private Medicare Advantage plans have been inappropriately denied admission to a skilled nursing home when…
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…
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…
Billionaires target Social Security for cuts
The US financial oligarchy launched a coordinated campaign to reduce Social Security benefits this week. The effort will…
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…
Argentina’s railway privatization dreams face long haul ahead
By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Argentina, a major global food supplier, plans to supercharge…
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,…
MAGA is wrong about AI. Trump is right.
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch dig into Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R–Mo.) speech at the National…
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: A Broken Health Care System
Nearly 9 out of 10 counties in the United States have been formally designated primary care Health Professional…
The Illusion of Choice – The American Prospect
This article appears in the August 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. At his confirmation hearing in…
Privatizing Veterans’ Health Care Will Be a Disaster
Long before becoming secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Doug Collins’s intention to steer veterans and…