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Hospitals Charging up to 8 Times as Much as Medicare for Same Services
Published: 07-23-19
Commercial insurance plans pay Colorado hospitals, on average, almost three times what Medicare pays for the same care. A hospital in Fort Morgan charges nearly eight times more than Medicare reimbursements. That's according to a new Hospital Value report on pricing and performance. VOTE 5 STARS = PLAY AGAIN, 1 STAR = NOT SO GREAT. More news at PublicNewsService.org. More discoveries from a street-level POV at vagrom.weebly.com.
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Public News Service
Summer activities for kids are at full pitch, and many Colorado parents might not realize that some of the same pools and recreation centers where kids meet up with their friends are also offering free, nutritious meals for anyone age 18 and younger. PLEASE PICK A STAR, 1 = OK, 5 = PLAY IT AGAIN.
Producer: ericgalatas
Language: English
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Dismantling Lies of the Health Insurance Industry
Published: 07-13-19
Wendell Potter is a former insurance industry executive who left the industry in 2008 to become a whistleblower, revealing industry's false health care narrative designed to inflate their bottom line at the expense of the insured, who pay ever-rising insurance costs while too often being denied needed coverage. As leader of the Business Initiative for Health Policy, Potter questions the formation by members of the medical industrial complex - insurance, PhRMA, hospitals, the AMA and others - of a front group named The Partnership for America's Healthcare Future, designed to oppose Medicare for All, and to maintain the profit-making structure of the current U.S. fragmented commercial health insurance model that perpetuates high administrative costs and high out-of-pocket costs for the insured.
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Truthseekers - Health Justice Podcast
Truthseekers - Health Justice is a Podcast that challenges the false corporate narrative underlying health insurance reform, social injustice and the erosion of U.S. democracy. Truthseekers addresses the flawed concepts and the corporate power structure that drive the failed U.S. commercial health insurance model, and result in sacrifice of human and environmental health to the corporate bottom line.
Producer: Michele Swenson
Language: English
Theme: Talk Radio, News, & Culture
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