Permanente Medicine

JULY 8, 2025

What’s unique in Kaiser Permanente is when you come in, or even during an email or a chat or a telephone appointment, it’s going to be about what the patient’s needs are, but also what we identify as needs for the patient. Double-digit insurance increases are just not in our budget.” What needs to happen there?

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 3, 2025

President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” cuts federal spending on Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplaces by about $1 trillion over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, threatening the physical and financial health of tens of millions of Americans. uninsured rate to record lows.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

So began the stress of trying to pay for tens of thousands of dollars in treatment — without health insurance. Making sure he had insurance was the last thing on his mind, until recently, Fry said. To save money, Fry said, he’s taking a less aggressive treatment route than his doctor recommended.

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Physicians News Digest

MARCH 31, 2025

At the urging of her therapist, she made an appointment with a psychiatrist in March after she felt she’d “hit the bottom,” she said. “I Even with insurance, many people wait weeks or months to receive care. “And then the first thought after that was: ‘Oh, I’m about to not have insurance.

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