Health Insurance

The Threat Of Big Insurance

June 15, 2026 David Dayen, Portside. Educate! Finance, Health Insurance, Profiteers, Working Class

Earlier this month, the California-based organization Consumer Watchdog uncovered an incredible scandal involving rideshare company Uber, which we covered on the most recent episode of my podcast Organized Money. The company pleaded to the California legislature last year that its insurance costs had spiked so much that the state needed to decrease required payouts on its mandated uninsured motorist coverage. “They literally said 45 cents out of every dollar is going to insurance,” Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, told me.

Trump Is Making America Uninsured Again

May 18, 2026 Sasha Abramsky, Truthout. Educate! Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance, Trump Administration, Uninsured

In 2025, the Trump administration successfully pushed Congress to enact nearly $1 trillion in health care cuts over the coming decade, which the Congressional Budget Office analysis estimated would result in 10 million people losing health coverage by 2034. More recently, it has blocked any and all efforts to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credit subsidies for people buying insurance on the state exchanges. In demanding that the GOP leadership in Congress prevent at all costs a continuation of the expanded ACA tax credits, Donald Trump intimated that his administration was on the verge of proposing a better and more affordable health care reform to replace the ACA system.

Mexico Enacts Universal Healthcare

April 11, 2026 Stephen Prager, Scheer Post. Create! Health Care, Health Insurance, Mexico, universal healthcare

As Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum moves forward with a plan to enact universal healthcare for her country’s more than 130 million people, a longtime advocate for Medicare for All in the US called the development “both inspiring and frustrating.” “Inspiring because it shows what is possible,” Wendell Potter, a former insurance company communications director who has become a leading critic of the industry, told Common Dreams. “Frustrating because here in the US we are going in the opposite direction.”

My Rude Health Care Awakening

March 14, 2026 John Katz, Bedlam Farm. Educate! Health Care, Health Insurance, Uninsured, United States

Living as I do in the country, I sometimes feel somewhat removed from the suffering and chaos so many Americans are feeling. I think of people in trouble as being them, not me. I got my wake-up call this week when my health care plan was suddenly canceled without explanation or warning. I learned this when I went to order regular medication for my diabetes and was told my insurance was suddenly canceled, and I would have to pay $1,000 for it. It wasn’t until I called my very expensive supplement plan that I learned it had been canceled. That was scary enough. For me, a person with diabetes and heart disease, this was the closest thing to a life-or-death issue I’ve experienced since my Open Heart Surgery.

Too Big To Heal

December 28, 2025 Helen Santoro and Joel Warner, Portside. Educate! Finance and the Economy, Health Care, Health Insurance, universal healthcare

America’s health care spending is so out of control that the country’s economy is becoming dependent on it. According to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Commerce, economic growth swelled in the third quarter of 2025. While that’s theoretically good news, an ever-larger share of that consumer spending is devoted to health care costs: Over the previous three months, expenditures on health care increased more than on any other goods or services. Health care spending, in fact, contributed more to the country’s gross domestic product growth than any other personal expenses.

Don’t Worry, Wall Street Journal, Health Insurers Are Profitable!

November 3, 2025 John Canham-Clyne, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Insurers, Profiteers, Wall Street

On October 21, Elevance Health (the rebrand of for-profit health insurer Anthem) announced its third quarter results. Operating revenue went up 12% from the same three-month period last year, and profits as measured by normal accounting rules rose 17%. UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest insurer, went one better, raising its expectations for how much profit it will make this year, as it eased Wall Street’s worries by increasing the premiums it will charge for coverage in 2026. Please let the anxious folks at the Wall Street Journal know. They’ve been so worried. Over the past year, older Americans, low-income people who enroll in private Medicare and Medicaid insurance plans, and people covered by health insurance purchased from the Affordable Care Act exchanges have been doing something that private insurance companies and their Wall Street investors find disturbing: They’re actually going to the doctor and getting the healthcare they need.

John Geyman On The Growing Costs Of US Health Care

October 15, 2025 Russell Mokhiber, Corporate Crime Reporter. Educate! Capitalism, Health Care, Health Insurance, Profiteers

You know health care costs are starting to hit home when Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene raises the red flag. In a posting on Twitter last week, the Republican Congresswoman from Georgia broke from Republican leadership in the House. “I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to double, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district,” she wrote. “No I’m not towing the party line on this, or playing loyalty games. I’m a Republican and won’t vote for illegals to have any taxpayer funded health care or benefits.”

Health Insurers Push Huge Premium Hikes As Profits Soar

July 21, 2025 Veronica Riccobene and Helen Santoro, The Lever. Educate! Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Health Insurance, Profiteers

The six largest health insurers reported more than $1 trillion in revenue and more than $31 billion in net income last year — and are now pushing to raise Americans’ premiums by as much as 66 percent for some policies, according to recent state regulatory filings. The proposed increases come as insurers dole out billions to further enrich top brass and shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends. In all, Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces across the country are projected to see the largest rate hikes in more than five years, driving up out-of-pocket premiums for individual plan policyholders by more than 75 percent on average, according to data compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

New Report Documents Disparities In Workers’ Health Care Coverage

May 14, 2025 Center for Economic and Policy Studies, Popular Resistance. Educate! Health Care, Health Insurance, Medicaid, Working Class

As Congressional Republicans weigh major cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a new research paper reveals troubling disparities in how workers obtain health insurance in the United States. The new paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) – A Complicated Maze: How Workers Navigate the US Health Care System – finds major gaps in the availability of employer-based insurance. The complicated public and private system that attempts to fill those gaps, however, falls short of providing universal coverage – and Congress is considering changes that threaten to end coverage for millions of workers.

BlueCross/BlueShield: Slow Pay, Low Pay Or No Pay

April 16, 2025 T. Christian Miller, ProPublica. Educate! Blue Cross, Cancer, Fraud, Health Care, Health Insurance, Louisiana, Women’s health

On a late afternoon in November 2017, Witney Arch told her 1-1/2-year-old son to stop playing and come inside. Upset, he grabbed her right breast when she picked him up. She experienced a shock of pain but did not think it was anything serious. A week later, however, the ache had not subsided. After trips to several doctors, a biopsy revealed that Arch had early-stage breast cancer. Her surgeon told her that it was likely invasive and aggressive. By the end of January, she had made two critical decisions. She would get a double mastectomy. And she wanted her operation at the Center for Restorative Breast Surgery in New Orleans, a medical facility renowned for its highly specialized approach to breast cancer care and reconstruction.

Trump Department Of Justice To Seek Death Penalty For Luigi Mangione

April 2, 2025 Eloise Goldsmith, Scheer Post. Educate! Death Penalty, Department of Justice, Health Insurance, Luigi Mangione

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday that she is directing federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the case of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December. Federal prosecutors in New York City filed murder charges against Mangione in mid-December after Mangione was arrested in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after Thompson was gunned down in front of a hotel in midtown Manhattan on December 4. UnitedHealthcare is the largest health insurer in the country, though the company has said Mangione was never insured by them.

CEO Shooting Exposes Injustices That Get Too Little Attention

February 27, 2025 Peter Greenhill, Popular Resistance. Educate! Deaths, Health Care, Health Insurance, United Healthcare

“In a fairer world, Brian Thompson wouldn’t have been murdered. He would already have been put behind bars,” writes foreign policy analyst Sunjeev Bery. And Bery is right. Others have made this point over the last few years, that companies like UnitedHealth are deep cesspools of irredeemable, psychopathic corruption, which in UnitedHealth’s specific case prevents doctors from relieving suffering and saving lives. The shooting of Thompson, their CEO, calls attention to many serious flaws in our society besides the corruption of the profit-obsessed health insurance industry, but let’s focus on just two.

US Health Insurance System Is Failing, Say Doctors

January 27, 2025 Michael Sainato, The Guardian. Educate! Doctors, Health Care, Health Insurance, Medicare for all, United States

American doctors are accusing US health insurance giants of causing deadly delays to vital medical procedures and care – and putting profits ahead of their patients’ health. Firms including United Healthcare have denied basic scans, and taken months to reconsider, according to physicians who spoke to the Guardian. “There’s good evidence that these kinds of delays literally kill people,” said Dr Ed Weisbart, former chief medical officer for Express Scripts, one of the largest prescription benefits managers in the US. “For some people, this isn’t just an inconvenience and an annoyance and an aggravation.

Doctor And Patients Protest UnitedHealth’s Record Earnings

January 23, 2025 Chris Mills Rodrigo, Inequality.org. Resist! Health Care, Health Insurance, Profiteers, Protests, UnitedHealthcare

America’s largest health care company, the UnitedHealth Group, pulled in over $100 billion in revenue in just the fourth quarter of 2024 alone. For the full year, the giant’s insurance division, UnitedHealthcare, reported record revenue of $298.2 billion, the company announced last Thursday. These staggering revenue totals actually fell below investor expectations. UnitedHealth Group shares, right after the announcement, slipped 6 percent on the New York Stock Exchange. Meanwhile, just outside that capitalist bastion, victims of our for-profit healthcare system — doctors and patients alike — were braving freezing temperatures to call out the suffering that engineered UnitedHealth’s exorbitant earnings.

‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ Author: Americans’ Rage At Insurers

January 7, 2025 Jay Feinman, Scheer Post. Educate! Capitalism, Health Care, Health Insurance, Luigi Mangione

My book “Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It” was thrust into the spotlight recently, after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in what authorities say was a targeted attack outside the company’s annual investors conference. Investigators at the scene found bullet casings inscribed with the words “delay,” “deny” and “depose.” The unsettling echo of the book’s title struck me and many others. That killing – and the torrent of online outrage that followed – put Americans’ unhappiness with health insurers at the front of the national conversation.

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