House Panel Explores Tragic Clashes With Private Insurance Bureaucracy

For Erinn Ackley, it was her father’s insurance company denying claim after claim for a bone marrow transplant to treat the leukemia that eventually killed him. For Mark Gendernalik, it was his insurer’s agent refusing referrals for diagnostic tests for his three-month-old daughter, who was suffering seizures. And for pediatrician More…

Democrats Take Aim at Medicare Private Plans

The Democratic push to slash tens of billions of dollars for private insurers who cover Medicare patients has been met on Capitol Hill by something unusual: a relative silence, even from supporters of the program.

In past years, the Democrats’ proposals to cut subsidies to the popular but controversial Medicare More…