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Category: Single-Payer/Medicare-for-All

NYT: Medicare to Curtail Abusive Spending on Hyper-Expensive Bandages

Posted on July 17, 2025July 16, 2025 by Devon Herrick

Going after Medicare abuse is like playing whack a mole. Just when you think you have made some headway another mole pops out. The Biden Administration, and now the Trump Administration, is moving to limit the use – and limit the price paid – for so-called skin substitutes in Medicare. Skin substitutes are newfangled bandages.

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Medicare to Finally Go After Waste, Fraud and Abuse

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Devon Herrick

Medicare has a long way to go, but perhaps the agency is moving in the right direction.

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KFF: Federal Proposals Threaten Key Source of State Medicaid Funding

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Devon Herrick

The Kaiser Family Foundation had this to say: 

Republican efforts to restrict taxes on hospitals, health plans, and other providers that states use to help fund their Medicaid programs could strip them of tens of billions of dollars. The move could shrink access to health care for some of the nation’s poorest and most vulnerable people, warn analysts, patient advocates, and Democratic political leaders.

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Saturday Links

Posted on June 21, 2025June 21, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Britain’s NHS has an elder care problem.
  • Medicare Trustees: The Part A fund will now become insolvent in 2033 — three years earlier than previous predictions. 
  • AEI on the latest Medicare Trustees report.
  • The FDA has granted approval to 270 treatments over its 30 years. Yet they have accounted for well below 1 percent of Medicaid spending.
  • MAHA may bring back whole milk for kids.
  • More reasons why the FDA should require proof of safety, but not efficacy, for new drug approvals.
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