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The PBM-Insurer Mafia Comes for Community Pharmacies

1 year 5 months ago
UnitedHealth, CVS, and Cigna’s PBMs are using their market share and pull in Washington to drive one of the key levers to manage health care costs—independent pharmacies—out of business.
Matthew Cunningham-Cook

What Really Happened on October 7?

1 year 5 months ago
And why, wonders a new Al Jazeera documentary, did the media go to such lengths to concoct gruesome X-rated versions of an attack that was harrowing enough to begin with?
Maureen Tkacik

Schumer Spoke for Diaspora Jews

1 year 5 months ago
Today on TAP: His break with Bibi made explicit, and official, the inherent rifts between diaspora and Israeli Jews.
Harold Meyerson

How the Welfare State Fails the Poor

1 year 5 months ago
A bureaucratic paper chase undermines compassion and practical help for the needy, while Wall Street gets whatever it wants. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Robert Kuttner

Man of Steel

1 year 5 months ago
Today on TAP: President Biden’s blockage of the proposed purchase of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel is unprecedented and magnificently pro-union.
Robert Kuttner