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Albuquerque, NM
Joined January 2010
Health Action NM retweeted
NEW: We've just released an updated Sunlight Report on UnitedHealth Group. Our research now identifies 2,807 entities across UnitedHealth's sprawling corporate empire, including 376 additional entities since our original report in 2025. Here's what the Center for Health & Democracy (@cforhd) found.
NEW: We’ve released the latest edition of our Sunlight Report on UnitedHealth Group! Our updated research reveals 2,807 entities across UnitedHealth’s sprawling corporate empire, including 376 additional entities identified since our original report in 2025. From its insurance empire and physician practices to pharmacies and surgery centers, UnitedHealth’s reach into American health care is enormous. For more, check out the full Sunlight Report on UnitedHealth Group: sunlightreportinsurance.com/
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Health Action NM retweeted
There’s still one insurance market where people with pre-existing conditions can be denied coverage: Medigap. 74% of Medicare Advantage enrollees have a pre-existing condition that could lead to a Medigap denial if they switch to traditional Medicare.
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Q3 2026: UnitedHealth’s Profits Soar as it Covers Fewer People, Pays Less for Care, by @wendellpotter healthcareuncovered.substack…
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Wow! So important for so many!! One hopes more airports follow San Antonio Airport.
Love that @SatAirport has an inclusive space for people with neurosensory disorders. It illustrates why we must be careful when dismissing and defunding efforts to promote inclusivity. It’s a lot more than who’s using which bathroom or boys playing girls sports…
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Health Action NM retweeted
Medicare Advantage prescription drug plan availability varies widely by county in 2027, with a modest reduction in the share of enrollees with more than 40 plans to choose from and some major insurers exiting many more counties than they are entering. on.kff.org/3UbQSxr
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My recent blog on early data from Nebraska explains what is happening there so far. Nebraska was the 1st state to implement new Medicaid work reporting requirements which are coming to a state near you on 1/1/27 ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/09/3…
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Health Action NM retweeted
U.S. prices for 25 top-selling brand-name drugs rose by an average of 81% after launch, while prices for the same drugs fell by an average of 13% across 19 comparable countries, according to @AARP research highlighted by @TheStreet. Read more: spr.ly/6017BGfEUt #DrugPrices
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The 2025 reconciliation law makes major changes to Medicaid in every state — from work requirements (44 states) to immigrant eligibility restrictions (51) to limits on provider taxes (51). More on how and which states are affected in our new brief: on.kff.org/4hQIsDB
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Health Action NM retweeted
Compared with urban health centers, rural health centers served a higher share of patients ages 65 and older, and an outsized share of rural health center patients were veterans, worked in agriculture, or were patients at school-based health center. on.kff.org/4elNuXw
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As a result of hospital labor and maternity closures in rural NM, pregnant women are driving further or are foregoing prenatal care.
🚨 NEW: 52 maternity wards have closed since Donald Trump and Republicans introduced their Big, Ugly Bill — and the cuts don’t even fully take effect until January. Our analysis featured in The Guardian: “When you’re cutting Medicaid by a trillion dollars, you’re cutting this money from hospitals.”
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