WATCH NOW: Biden’s Medicare Premium Hike
The Lever’s new video reveals how Biden approved the largest-ever Medicare premium increase while enriching insurance execs who bankrolled his campaign.
Health Care
Deep dives into the political corruption and corporate bureaucracy that keeps Americans sick while making executives rich.
Biden Hikes Medicare Prices And Funnels Profits to Private Insurers
The largest-ever Medicare premium increase will pad the pockets of insurance executives who donated millions to the president’s election campaign.
DeSantis Donors Get Nursing Home Dereg
Florida’s Republican politicians are shielding their campaign donors from liability while chipping away at safety standards for elderly residents.
Big Pharma’s Signal To Joe Manchin
Drug companies are bankrolling West Virginia ads trying to bully the senator after he signaled he might support a drug pricing bill.
Private Equity Gloats Over A Doctor Glut
Health care vultures helped create an oversupply of ER physicians — now they want to use the surplus to cut wages and limit care.
How Wall Street Is Taking Over Medicare
Biden’s expansion of a new, insidious form of for-profit Medicare is benefitting private equity firms and well-connected health care giants.
Will Biden’s New COVID Czar Protect The World Or Big Pharma?
Ashish Jha must decide how hard he is willing to push drug makers to achieve global vaccine equity — and his track record might be cause for concern.
WATCH NOW: John Abramson On His Big Pharma Exposé “Sickening”
The physician and author spoke to Lever supporting subscribers about his new book on how the drug industry has corrupted American health care.
Out Of The ER, Into The Street
Enraged by Wall Street’s takeover of their profession, emergency physicians are rising up and speaking out.
WATCH NOW: The Secret Medicare Scheme
The Lever’s new video reveals how the Biden administration is expanding a Trump plan to force hundreds of thousands of seniors onto for-profit health plans.