It may be one of the most deceptive public policy marketing schemes in modern history. First, pick the most popular health insurance program in the country, which is Medicare. Then call your health insurance reform proposal “Medicare for All,” even though the intent is to eliminate the Medicare program as we know it, so that no one would have that coverage anymore.
Category: Medicare
Tuesday Links – 1 September 2026
Across five cancers, Medicaid beneficiaries were between 11% and 42% more likely than privately insured patients to wait more than a month for treatment. Medicare patients fared somewhat better but were still between 4% and 12% more likely to wait a month or more than individuals with private coverage.
Medicaid and Medicare patients are more likely than patients with private coverage to face extended emergency-room waits before being admitted to a hospital.
- The low down on Roy Cohn. (The Atlantic)
- No more GLP-1?
A handful of major corporations have recently said they are ending coverage of GLP-1s specifically for obesity, including PepsiCo, Starbucks, PwC, and HCA Healthcare. Large health insurers, state Medicaid plans, and public-sector employers have been cutting GLP-1 coverage for weight loss since 2024. (Statnews)
Friday Links – 28 August 2026
- Life is more affordable in red states.
- In defense of data centers.
- Best city for health care access: Rochester, Minn.
- 69 percent of Medicare beneficiaries have two or more chronic conditions.
- “Prescription drug prices fell 3.1% over the past year, the sharpest annual decline in more than six decades, according to new data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.”
- The case for Lloyd Doggett’s anti-Medicare Advantage bill.
- The case against the bill.
Wednesday Links – 26 August 2026
- Parente on Medicare for All.
- Mark Cuban encourages companies and government agencies to use AI chatbots to comb through their healthcare benefit contracts, identifying hidden fees that could be cut to reduce costs.
- SNAP rolls have fallen by 5 million. That’s good news.
- How much economic freedom matter for individual wellbeing.
- “Prevention does not fail because it does not work. It fails because, under current financing rules, the entity paying for it is rarely the entity that gets to keep the savings.”