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How Capitalist Healthcare Turns Doctor’s Offices Into Profit Centers

October 31, 2026 By Egberto Willies Leave a Comment

How Capitalist Healthcare Turns Doctor’s Offices Into Profit Centers

Hospital buyouts turn routine doctor visits into revenue opportunities. How facility fees expose healthcare’s extraction model—and why universal care needs public accountability.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: capitalism, corporate power, Economic Justice, Healthcare Costs, healthcare reform, Healthcare', Hospital Consolidation, Hospital Facility Fees, Medical Billing, Medical Debt, Medicare For All, Patient Rights, Politics Done Right, Public Health., Site-Neutral Payments, Universal Healthcare

The GOP’s Post-Election Bill: How Trump’s 2027 Cuts Punish Working Families

October 20, 2026 By Egberto Willies

The GOP’s Post-Election Bill: How Trump’s 2027 Cuts Punish Working Families

The “Big Beautiful Bill” hides a brutal reality behind its branding: harder-to-keep healthcare, weaker debt protections, and new pressure on food aid. Several major blows arrive after the midterms.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: 2026 Midterm Elections, 2027 Policy Changes, ACA Premium Tax Credits, Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump, Economic Hardship Deferment, food assistance, GOP Deception, Medicaid Cuts, Medicaid Work Requirements, Medical Debt, Medicare Eligibility, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Politics Done Right, Prescription Drug Costs, Progressive Politics, Rachel Maddow, Republican Accountability, Republican Party, SNAP, Student Debt Collection, Student loans, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, wealth inequality, working class, Working Families

America Already Pays for Medicare for All—Wall Street Keeps the Difference

July 20, 2026 By Egberto Willies

America Already Pays for Medicare for All—Wall Street Keeps the Difference

America pays more for worse healthcare because corporate middlemen extract wealth from illness. Medicare for All offers universal care at a lower total cost.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Administrative Waste, Copays, corporate greed, Deductibles, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Health Insurance Profits, Healthcare Costs, healthcare reform, Insurance Denials, Medical Debt, Medicare, Medicare For All, Out-of-Network Care, Patient Rights, Politics Done Right, Private Health Insurance, Progressive Politics, single-payer healthcare, Universal Healthcare, working class

Steve Rattner Exposes How Trump Quietly Sabotaged Obamacare and Crushed Working Families

May 10, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Steve Rattner Exposes How Trump Sabotaged Obamacare Behind Closed Doors

Healthcare costs are exploding after the Trump-era ACA sabotage. Steve Rattner explains who pays the price and why it matters.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: ACA Subsidies, Affordable Care Act, health insurance, healthcare, healthcare crisis, healthcare reform, medicaid, Medicaid Cuts, Medical Debt, Medicare For All, msnbc, obamacare, Politics Done Right, Progressive Politics, republicans, Steve Rattner, Trump, Working Families

Health Insurance Scam? Woman Pays More WITH Coverage Than Without for Care

April 25, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Health Insurance Scam Woman Pays More WITH Coverage Than Without for Care

Why does insurance cost more than cash? This shocking story breaks it down. A viral story reveals how U.S. health insurance forces patients to pay more, not less.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Economic Inequality, health insurance scam, healthcare crisis, healthcare reform, high deductibles, hospital billing, Insurance Companies, insurance system, medical costs, Medical Debt, Medicare For All, US healthcare, working class

Young column: Life-or-death crossroads for health care

December 1, 2025 By John Young

Talk about all of that, and do not stop. Make noise. But at this very moment we need extreme attention – and noise – about something else. Some 24 million Americans stand to take a crippling hit if Republicans disable the thing that makes the Affordable Care Act affordable.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: ACA, ACA Subsidies, Affordable Care Act, Biden Administration, CBO Report, Congressional Inaction, Economic Justice, Epstein Files, Government Censorship, Government Shutdown, Health Care Crisis, health insurance, Health Policy, Healthcare Access, healthcare inequality, Jimmy Kimmel, John Young, Medicaid Cuts, Medical Debt, obamacare, Political Commentary, public health, Republican Budget Cuts, social safety net, tax credits, Tom Homan, U.S. Congress, U.S. Politics, Working Families

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