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Recently I traveled to Washington, D.C. with a delegation of senior citizens to talk with lawmakers about something that impacts […]

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.

Pharmacy benefit managers generate massive revenues for the insurance/PBM complex and, in turn, for political campaigns and lobbying.

Let’s end the outrageous waste of money we pay to support a corrupt, conflicted, and perversely incentivized political-healthcare-corporate complex.

Throwing more and more premium money from taxpayers at health insurance companies does not drive down the cost of anything.

Pennsylvania has a shortage of nurses, driven in part by increasing health care demands, workforce changes, and limited nursing program capacity.

What we now call “health insurance” is not health care.

Middletown community relations officer Melissa Robison says there’s no excuse for ignoring flashing red lights on school buses.