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US appeals court voids formula used to avert surprise medical bills

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general ... r-AA2a6FTa

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‘Break Up Big Medicine’: Taking on Healthcare Industry Greed Could Save U.S. Families $6,000+ a Year
By Jessica Corbett
August 28, 2026

Introduction:

(Common Dreams) As millions of working-class Americans suffer from President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ cuts to the already dysfunctional US healthcare system, a leading anti-monopoly group this week released a report with recommendations to restore “affordability and control to patients, clinicians, and communities across the country.”

“The healthcare crisis didn’t happen by accident, it is the direct result of decades of neoliberal policy choices that handed more power to corporate healthcare giants while families paid the price,” said Morgan Harper, director of policy and advocacy at the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP).

“The choice now is clear: Continue to watch the US healthcare system spiral into profit-driven chaos or finally treat the Big Medicine disease to create a healthcare system that puts patients and clinicians in control of care,” she explained. “This agenda presents a roadmap for how to do it.”
Harper and Emma Freer, AELP’s senior policy analyst for healthcare, co-authored the new report, “Break Up Big Medicine,” with contributions from a trio of other experts. One of them is Dr. Will Flanary, an independent ophthalmologist in Portland, Oregon.

“The US healthcare system, once made up of mostly independent practices like mine, is now dominated by Big Medicine behemoths—including private insurance conglomerates, Big Pharma manufacturers, pharmaceutical middlemen, megahospitals, and private equity-backed practices—whose only fiduciary duty is to executives and investors,” he wrote in the foreword. “This makes it increasingly difficult to keep my practice afloat and uphold my oath, resulting in moral injury.”

Read more here: https://www.commondreams.org/news/brea ... medicine

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Ah yeah universal healthcare where you don’t pay [doctors] anymore. It’s like the fire department where they work for free.