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Yes, there is serious waste, fraud, and abuse in healthcare. But vulnerable patients are not the perpetrators.

Mark, our CEO and lead policy advocate, recently appeared on Meredith Hirsh’s excellent podcast, Working Health. In this engaging discussion, he outlines the many contributors to rural hospital closures, and what can be done to turn the tide.

Doctors are caught between two serious threats: Frivolous malpractice lawsuits that push them toward defensive medicine, and insurance companies that deny or delay care patients need by labeling treatments “not medically necessary.”

Medicare Advantage plans are a masterclass in pulling the wool over the public’s eyes through deceptive advertising, hijacking the trusted “Medicare” name, and benefiting from billions of lobbying and campaign dollars.

Patients and medical providers are being bled dry by insurance companies using loopholes in programs like Medicare Advantage, all to pad their profits while delaying and denying vital care.

Over the decades, insurance payers and their lobbyists have intentionally created an unfair and predatory status quo that ensures big bucks for executives, shareholders, and the politicians in their pocket – while leaving everyone else holding the bag.