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Jun 10, 2024 · "Medicare Advantage plans have, in effect, stolen hundreds of billions from taxpayers," says David Himmelstein, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School and a research associate at the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. "And the private plans' schemes also raise seniors' Part B Medicare premiums.
5 days ago · David U. Himmelstein is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York at Hunter College.
Jun 28, 2024 · This week on CounterSpin: Headlined “The Cash Monster Was Insatiable,” a 2022 New York Times piece reported insurance companies gaming Medicare Advantage, presented as a “low-cost” alternative to traditional Medicare.
4 days ago · David Himmelstein: “The private insurance companies have ripped off taxpayers to the tune of more than half a trillion dollars.”. DH: What we found is that the taxpayers are overpaying these Medicare Advantage private plans by tens of billions of dollars each year. In fact, $82 billion last year alone, and $612 billion since 2007.
5 days ago · The recipient of the 2018 Windham-Caampbell Prize, she’s the author of seven books, including three she considers a loose trilogy: The Lonely City (2016), Everybody...
Jun 10, 2024 · “Medicare Advantage plans have, in effect, stolen hundreds of billions from taxpayers,” says David Himmelstein, a study co-author who is a Distinguished Professor at CUNY’s Hunter College, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, and a Research Associate at Public Citizen.
Jun 10, 2024 · Gaffney, Woolhandler, and Himmelstein argue forcefully for abolishing MA for Medicare recipients. In WA, where I practiced, my primary care group of about 14 got walloped by the failure of HMO care in the 90s, and discovered we were losing $30 out of pocket, ie, below overhead, on each and every Medicare FFS visit.
