After Joe Biden Broke His Health Care Pledge, Emboldened Lobbyists Are Targeting the States
By Julia Rock, The Daily Poster
On 5/17/21 at 2:10 PM EDT
When President Joe Biden outlined his legislative priorities during his first address to Congress last month, notably absent was a major campaign promise: a public health insurance option. Instead, his current health reform proposal will funnel $200 billion more to private insurance companies to subsidize premiums, without any requirement that they cap out-of-pocket costs or eliminate them altogether.
As a result of Biden s approach, states have been left to introduce public option legislation themselves, in the process taking on some of the nation s largest and most politically organized businesses. From coast to coast, health insurance companies, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies are using every tactic at their disposal to block states from passing public option legislation.
CVS Health quietly donated a staggering amount to a dark money group advocating against health care access
Last year, as the United States was ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, CVS Health donated a staggering amount of money to a dark money group that advocated for limiting health care access.
The massive donation is considered the largest financial contribution on record although PAHCF is classified as a 501(c)(4) organization and not required to publicly disclose information about its donors. Reports about CVS Health s donation come months after PAHCF embarked on a political sweep of voters in Democratic primary states as they urged voters to push back against the promotion of Medicare for All.
Controlling the Narrative: Industry-Led Misinformation in the Great Health Care Debate
Controlling the Narrative: Industry-Led Misinformation in the Great Health Care Debate
December 15, 2020
Over the summer, former Cigna executive Wendell Potter made headlines for exposing the misinformation campaigns that corporate health insurance providers have long initiated against universal health care systems. During Potter’s tenure at Cigna, the health care giant regularly used misleading anecdotal evidence and methodologically questionable data to attack Canadian-style health care reforms in the United States – such as the Affordable Care Act and, more recently, proposals espousing Medicare-for-All – and thereby preserve the profitability of private insurers. Potter’s bombshell admissions are symptomatic of the larger, dangerous mythology that health care industry advocates have perpetuated amidst increasing calls for universal coverage in the US. By spreading falsehoods regardin