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US Medicare

June 2024

  • people hold signs that read 'stop deadly delays and denials'

    Delays, denials, debt and the growing privatization of Medicare

    Medicare Advantage enrollees report treatment denials and delays in payment, leading to harmful outcomes in healthcare

March 2024

  • Social Security Administration seal.

    ‘Not on my watch’: Biden pledges to stop cuts to social security and Medicare

    The president made the comments after Donald Trump suggested ‘there is a lot you can do’ in terms of cutting popular programs

February 2024

  • A pharmacy technician reaches for a bottle of medication

    ‘Make money by denying care’: new US rules aim to curb use of approval by private health insurances

    Patients, advocates and researchers welcome regulations but argue rules don’t go nearly far enough to tackle scale of problem

November 2023

  • A bright yet hazy sky, with the sun peeking around a plume of white smoke rising from one of two tall smoke stacks, with low snowy fields in the foreground.

    US coal power plants killed at least 460,000 people in past 20 years – report

    Pollution caused twice as many premature deaths as previously thought, with updated understanding of dangers of PM2.5

August 2023

  • Three bottles of the prescription drug Eliquis

    Biden names 10 drugs for first negotiations to cut Medicare prices

    Government claims prices could fall for 9m seniors but pharma companies claim cost-reduction program is unconstitutional

April 2023

  • Illustration of a woman being weighed down under a roll of bills

    In a liberal US state, my life-saving abortion cost $55,000

    I was flabbergasted by the cost of medical care I could have died without – but surprise fees are standard in a system motivated first and foremost by profit

February 2023

  • Senator Bernie Sanders in Washington, DC

    Bernie Sanders: ‘Oligarchs run Russia. But guess what? They run the US as well’

    The veteran senator is now part of Joe Biden’s inner circle, and is still fighting his country’s vast inequalities
  • Joe Biden

    Joe Biden attacks Republican ‘dream’ to slash Medicare and social security

    President makes comments in Florida speech, vowing to safeguard programs ahead of anticipated 2024 re-election campaign
  • Mark Pocan.

    ‘Seniors are getting ripped off’: progressive congressman Mark Pocan on overhauling Medicare

    Pocan is introducing legislation prohibiting insurance companies from preying on seniors and marketing their plans as ‘Medicare’

September 2022

  • Joe Biden delivers remarks during a celebration of the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act on the South Lawn of the White House, 13 September 2022.

    Biden declared victory over big pharma – but is it enough to sway senior voters?

    The Inflation Reduction Act aims to reduce the cost of drugs, but the law’s limitations may not help the Democrats in the midterms

May 2021

  • An illustration of earth being injected by a syringe with cash in it

    The Audio Long Read
    Cash injection: could we cure all disease with a trillion dollars? – podcast

    Could such a large amount of money end the Covid pandemic? Eradicate disease? Provide universal healthcare and fund vaccine research?

March 2021

  • Medicare for All signs at a Bernie Sanders news conference in 2019. (Photo by Aaron P Bernstein for Reuters.)

    Politics Weekly UK
    Why Medicare for All is a political headache: Politics Weekly Extra

    The Guardian health reporter Jessica Glenza speaks to Dr Abdul El-Sayed, co-author of a new book, Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide, about why the idea of providing healthcare coverage for all Americans is so politically vexing

January 2021

  • WebVersion

    The long read
    Cash injection: could we cure all disease with a trillion dollars?

    The long read: Could such a large amount of money end the Covid pandemic? Eradicate disease? Provide universal healthcare and fund vaccine research?

October 2019

  • Elizabeth Warren, senator for Massachusetts.

    Project Syndicate economists
    The 2020 US election hinges on the economy – it's time to start talking about it

    Michael Boskin
    Be it Donald Trump or Elizabeth Warren, America urgently needs to start talking about candidates’ sharply diverging economic policies

September 2019

  • ‘With Medicare for All gaining steam, it’s no surprise that big pharma and multi-billion dollar for-profit insurance companies are responding with distortions and scare tactics.’

    For rural America, Medicare for All is a matter of life or death

    Barb Kalbach
    Insurance firms are gobbling up airtime in Iowa to attack Medicare for All. They claim it would hurt the very same hospitals their business model has spent years bleeding dry

July 2019

  • ROSS PEROT<br>FILE - In this June 1, 1996, file photo, former presidential candidate Ross Perot addresses the first California statewide convention of the Reform Party, a new political party he founded, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles. Perot, the Texas billionaire who twice ran for president, has died, a family spokesperson said Tuesday, July 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

    Ross Perot obituary

    Independent candidate in the US presidential elections of 1992 and 1996 who founded his own party

June 2019

  • Protesters rally outside PhRMA headquarters, 29 April 2019, in Washington, DC.

    Why we're fighting the American Medical Association

    Jonathan Michels, Will Cox, Alankrita Siddula and Rex Tai
    The AMA protects corporate interests, not doctors and patients – and now it’s trying to stop Medicare for All

February 2019

  • Senator Kamala Harris kicked off her 2020 presidential campaign on 27 January.

    How convincing is Kamala Harris' leftward shift?

    Briahna Joy Gray
    The Democratic presidential candidate has adopted a number of leftwing positions, but is she as progressive as she sounds?

January 2019

  • A demonstrator holds a sign at the “Rally to End the Shutdown” in Washington, DC.

    America shuts down: how the federal government closure is impacting millions

    An estimated 800,000 federal workers are missing paychecks, but the effects extend beyond those who work for the government

December 2018

  • Recent reports have found that single-payer healthcare would reduce our nation’s spending by trillions of dollars over a decade.

    Universal healthcare could save America trillions: what’s holding us back?

    Adam Gaffney
    A slew of studies are confirming that America can afford real universal healthcare, but some call it economically infeasible
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