Tag Archives: Health

Booker says he’d keep private health insurance even as he backs ‘Medicare for all’ – MarketWatch

Getty Images Sen. Cory Booker Newly announced Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker said Friday he wouldn’t do away with private insurance, even as he supports “Medicare for all,” wading into one of the hot-button issues of the 2020 presidential campaign. The New Jersey lawmaker in 2017 said he supported fellow Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for… Read More »

Health and Human Services wants to end 'middlemen kickbacks' in drug pricing by targeting rebates

HHS Secretary Alex Azar The Department of Health and Human Services is proposing to lower the list price of prescription drugs by correcting what it calls the perverse incentive to increase list prices to get higher rebates. The rebates are passed on to health plans, which use them to lower the price of premiums. But… Read More »

For both health care and health care journalism, there’s something missing in the middle

December 19, 2018 Posted By Categories Joy Victory has been deputy managing editor of HealthNewsReview.org since 2016. She tweets as @thejoyvictory. In 2015, a few months before I started working at HealthNewsReview.org, Cosmopolitan magazine published my article, “Why are so many American women dying in childbirth?” Tired of women getting blamed for the problem, I… Read More »