Senators Wyden and Sanders are investigating health care middlemen and data analytic firms for practices leading to surprise medical bills and high costs for patients. Concerns include broker misbehavior, profit-driven pharmaceutical industry causing drug shortages, and rationing of life-saving drugs in England due to supply crisis exacerbated by Brexit.
Drug shortage hits county hospitals #HealthyNation https://t.co/ihjl9msvlR https://t.co/KV23VQxppM
A Democratic senator wants UnitedHealth executives held accountable for 'substantial' harm to consumers, investors and the health-care industry https://t.co/yR6OxBbvmc
Patients in England ration drugs as supply crisis hits https://t.co/OKCy0fuQ3l
Senators Bernie Sanders and Ron Wyden are scrutinizing a data analytic firm over concerns that the services it provides to insurance companies leave patients with "sky-high medical bills." https://t.co/1o1EB45nu7
Health care middlemen have no shortage of schemes to squeeze profits out of patients. @SenSanders and I are demanding answers from MultiPlan for its practices that are landing families with surprise medical bills. Patients deserve full transparency. https://t.co/ffjEf3puOO
🚨 Patients in England are being forced to ration life-saving drugs as availability of certain medications are hit by a supply crisis, made worse by Brexit. https://t.co/CdiucS21qX
Soon America must decide who profits from innovation Pharma or Insurance. Pharma finds new cures, benefits people's QoL, 🇺🇸 economic engine. Insurance and PBMs are unnecessary middlemen. Denying and purposefully making the Healthcare system more difficult and fragmented. https://t.co/Gt5Xlahr3W
Senators See Possible Conflicts of Interest in Health Care Pricing Tools https://t.co/65AE7Aqcek
Big Pharma’s focus on profit is behind medicine shortages, superbug threat — #AJOpinion by Tim Bierley. 🔗: https://t.co/Z9R3eHb9zy https://t.co/EcEMaSQUcr
Wyden pushes for CMS to crack down on broker misbehavior https://t.co/R4zkfOWkEy