This new EO sides with big drug corporations by undermining a key pro consumer tool to lower drug costs, ultimately depriving our nation’s seniors of the more affordable & innovative breakthrough medications they so desperately need.

If the Administration truly wants to take on waste & inefficiency in health care & “Make America Healthy Again”, they need to side with the American people and strengthen/expand the Medicare drug negotiation program, not weaken it!

Exclusive | DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud Elon Musk’s allies have been on site at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offices this week.

Medicare & Medicaid provide affordable access to care for over 150 million Americans. An unelected billionaire and his team of interns rooting around inside the program’s data systems without oversight is not an appropriate or way to identify opportunities for change. www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

While the oversight work of IGs will surely continue (under acting IGs), this widespread firing sends the wrong signal to the thousands of public servants who work tirelessly to root out fraud, waste, & abuse in federal programs & (at worst) seeks to undermine their independence.

Even hospital CEOs agree patients should pay the same price for the same service! #sameservicesameprice @ahahospitals 👀

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Families USA Submits Comments on CMS 2025 Families USA applauds much of what CMS has done so far to rein in the corporate abuses in MA, including select proposals in this rate notice — however we urge CMS to do more to hold MA plans accountab...

Comments are due Feb 10, 2025. Reading over now, more analysis to come! 🤓

For an example of the priorities we will likely raise up as @FamiliesUSA, check out our comments from last year’s CY2025 rate notice. familiesusa.org/resources/fa...

NEW: @CMSGov just posted their CY2026 adv rate notice for MA & Part D plans. This is a critical opportunity for advocates and the public to weigh in to urge @CMSGov to hold MA insurers accountable to actually delivering the affordable & high quality #healthcare & coverage we deserve.

NEW advisory from @Surgeon_General on the causal* link between alcohol & cancer risk.

We should all call on Congress to require updated warning labels on alcoholic beverages in the 119th Congress.

It could save thousands of lives! Less than 1/2 of Americans know of the risks.

“Medicare Advantage insurers diagnosed patients with conditions that triggered extra payments of $50 billion from 2019 to 2021, even though no doctor ever treated the diseases.”

Critical reporting by @wsj.com on the coding abuses in MA. We need & deserve better!

Going into 2025, it will be critical to the millions of our nations seniors that we continue to fight for lower drug costs via strong implementation of the prescription drug provisions in the IRA, especially the Medicare Drug Negotiation program.

Let’s do this!

Happy New Year! 🎊🎆🎈

Also… your friendly health policy reminder that starting TODAY, an estimated 19 million Medicare beneficiaries will see their out-of-pocket Medicare Part D spending capped at $2,000 for the year because of the IRA 💪

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We need 1) price, quality, & ownership transparency to hold health care entities accountable, 2) safeguards that stop the worst instances of corporate greed in health care, 3) new economic incentives in how we pay for care so they ONLY make money if they actually make us healthy.

We can no longer allow big health care corporations to game their way to financial success without providing affordable, high quality care. It has to stop.

2025 is right around the corner; we need to organize around a proactive health care agenda that puts people at the center.

The Gilded Age of Medicine Is Here Health insurers and hospitals increasingly treat patients less as humans in need of care than consumers who generate profit.

The business model of US health care is fundamentally broken. “Nonprofit” hospitals consolidate into large systems to price gouge patients, insurers bill fake diagnoses to game Medicare for billions of 💵’s, & PE buys up providers just to strip them down & load them w debt to sell them off.

ICYMI: Families USA Action is urging Congress to take action during the lame duck session to lower health care costs. Among the bipartisan solutions is a Same Service, Same Price policy that will protect people from price gouging by big hospital corporations. familiesusa.org/press-releas...

Families USA is out with a new report outlining how much $$ Americans would save if Congress passed Same Service, Same Price. Big hospital corporations are pushing patients into hospital settings for routine imaging services because they can charge more. Congress can stop it and save patients $$