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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Medicare Advantage Plans are notorious for denying healthcare treatments to plan subscribers. CMS is intervening by making a much-needed change to how Medicare Advantage plans decides on treatments needed by plan subscribers. Just a couple of pointers showing how MA has been serving it customers . . . the public. In the existing MA bidding […] The post It will be up to the incoming Trump administration to decide appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I missed this piece from May of this year. Been too busy trying to maintain a blog rather than write or find excellent articles to present at Angry Bear. I apologize for the later. Me writing? you just have to live with it for now till more authors become a regular occurrence here. This piece […] The post Ending Medicare Advantage Overpayments appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]– Israel Agrees to Cease-Fire With Lebanon’s Hezbollah—But What About Gaza?, Common Dreams. After months of slaughtering those not responsible, then you ask for a truce? “A cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah appeared to be within reach on Monday amid reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly scuttled diplomatic efforts in recent months. – The Global […] The post...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Brief commentary by Dr. Kahn who is in the thick of the discussion on Medicare Advantage Costs. Health Justice Monitor, Medicare Advantage Overpayment >$100 Billion, Jim (James G.) Kahn, MD, MPH Summary: Physicians for a National Health Program released a valuable summary of Medicare Advantage overpayments. The scope and scale is breathtaking: $100 billion annual payoff […] The post Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans is More Than What is...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]If it bleeds, it leads. CNN has a piece about Ramon Rivera, who randomly stabbed three people in NYC. He was mentally ill, in and out of Rikers and mental health facilities. He’s like a drunk driver who has a history of alcoholism. “New York City Mayor Eric Adams described Rivera as a homeless man […] The post The economics of mental illness appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I believe this to be self-explanatory. President Biden lowered premiums and expanded eligibility for ACA Healthcare. The new president never cared for the ACA and will do whatever he can to cause it to fail. One sure path is to make it expensive so people drop out. Read on . . . When the ACA […] The post ACA Market Place Subsidies appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]An Update by Merrill Goozner on Public Health and what this administration has in mind. It appears Trump has his eye on Medicaid and the ACA. Maybe gutting them and having nothing to replace them. Kennedy/Oz as champions of public health? – by Merrill Goozner Gooz News Let’s start with some media criticism. In an […] The post The Pick to Be the “Champions of Public Health?” appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]One of the phenomena that have led to increased income inequality and the hollowing out of the middle class in America is the decline of unions. Recently, it appears that some workers are trying to claw back some of that lost economic ground. Now I don’t count PCPs as middle class or working class. Yes, […] The post Primary care physicians and unions appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]RFK Jr and the food-as-medicine trope Anti-vaxxer and brain-worm afflicted RFK Jr has announced, among his priorities, to use federal money to get people to eat better. From The Palm Beach Post: “The former independent presidential candidate is a big fan of Trump but not so much about the president-elect’s fast-food diet. “During an interview […] The post RFK Jr and the food-as-medicine trope appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I am dusting off an old commentary (A Woman’s Right to Safe Healthcare Outcomes) from 2019 after reading about a young woman who died after visiting three different emergency rooms. Everyone delayed. Everyone thought of their liability. And every one watched her slowly die as they made their decision. Healthcare for women and maternal mortality is an […] The post A Nation, a State, and Healthcare Failed a Young Woman appeared first...