After data on Medicare payments to physicians became publicly available in 2014, $60 billion in fraudulent payments turned up.
About: Marion Mass
Marion Mass, M.D. is a practicing pediatrician in Bucks County and a member of leadership in Free2care.
Demand change to reverse upward pressure on American health care costs
Getting access to medical care is becoming a serious national problem for people of various income levels.
Congress needs to prioritize patient choice in 2026
More subsidies are an unproductive band-aid solution for a structural problem in health care that’s driving up the underlying costs.
Diet’s role in avoiding entanglement with our sick-care system
We should crack the tough nut of our ingrained dietary habits.
Can Congress serve both the people and the profiteering pharmacy benefit managers?
All federal lawmakers should get behind the bipartisan Pharmacists Fight Back Act.
Help fight the big PBM middlemen, the profiteering bad guys
Legislation now before Congress deserves full votes that will expose who stands with patients and taxpayers and who stands with the status quo.
Bad law means bad, sometimes tragic, health outcomes
Pharmacy benefit managers generate massive revenues for the insurance/PBM complex and, in turn, for political campaigns and lobbying.
How do nonprofit hospitals rake it in? Let me count the ways
Let’s end the outrageous waste of money we pay to support a corrupt, conflicted, and perversely incentivized political-healthcare-corporate complex.
Undoing damage done by Obamacare: The stupidity that thwarts hospital competition
Throwing more and more premium money from taxpayers at health insurance companies does not drive down the cost of anything.
C2T2: Consumerism, competition, transparency, and trust can build back medicine better
The power of choice and competition in health care will be unleashed for American patients when we have achieved transparency in pricing.
