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Nov 4, 2026
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3 min read
Open enrollment opens November 1. Four point six million people already left the individual market while the field argued about drug prices.
Oct 28, 2026
4 min read
Medicare open enrollment opens October 15. CMS made plan level prior authorization data public in March, and the advocacy field left it on the shelf.
Oct 21, 2026
CMS cancelled coverage for more than 760,000 people six weeks before Open Enrollment and published no way for any of them to find out or fight back.
Oct 14, 2026
Four PBMs now hold 75 percent of the market, and every one of the ten largest shares an owner with a health insurer. Patients pay for that structure at the counter.
Oct 7, 2026
11 min read
September rewarded everyone with a seat at the table. Drugmakers traded concessions for exemptions, arbiters collected a fee per dispute, and vendors earned a cut of every denied claim. Patients got a letter, a bill, or a paperwork deadline.
Oct 1, 2026
Collecting patient insight is not enough. Someone must own the decision and answer for what happens next.
Sep 23, 2026
The No Surprises Act protected patients from unexpected bills. Its arbitration system now faces scrutiny over volume, costs, and incentives.
Sep 16, 2026
6 min read
Federal regulators are writing the evaluation principles for clinical AI with every stakeholder at the table except the people the technology gets used on.
Sep 9, 2026
8 min read
August rebuilt the machinery that decides whether a patient reaches treatment, and the people who take the drugs left almost no fingerprints on the drafting.
Sep 2, 2026
5 min read
An insurer can own the company that reviews its own denials and keep the money when the answer comes back no. A former FTC policy director wrote the fix after her father died waiting for one.
Aug 26, 2026
Medicaid bought groceries, paid rent, and covered bus fare. The state came out $164 per person per month ahead. The evidence has sat in public since June and most of the industry still has not read it.
Aug 18, 2026
Metastatic breast cancer has exposed a brutal truth. Science can move while disconnected systems keep patients waiting.
Aug 12, 2026
This month the hidden plumbing of American healthcare came into full view, and patients pay for a fight they never agreed to join.
Aug 5, 2026
How Vertical Integration Lets Healthcare Giants Pay Themselves, Silence Advocacy, and Strip Patients of Leverage
