“Premium Support” Is Just Another Way To Privatize Medicare
Out of the rubble of the failed budget deficit negotiations, it seems a new movement is afoot to transform Medicare into a “premium support” program with the goal of moving more seniors and the...
View ArticleObesity: Fact vs. Fiction
By Maggie Mahar Dr. Nortin Hadler, author of Worried Sick and Stabbed in the Back, is well-known for debunking medical myths. But in his latest book, Rethinking Aging (UNC Press), Hadler, a professor...
View ArticleHow did the challenge to the Affordable Care Act ever make it to the U.S....
By Maggie Mahar (This post originally appeared on the blog healthinsurance.org) In 2009, when someone asked Nancy Pelosi a question implying that health reform legislation might be unconstitutional,...
View ArticleWhat Women Have to Gain (or Lose) In the Battle Over Health Reform
By Maggie Mahar (This post is excerpted from a series that originally appeared on Healthinsurance.org) When Vice President Joe Biden told President Barack Obama that health reform is a BFD, he wasn’t...
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