Author: Larry Pareles

Our Medicare system is fracturing into two separate systems: the original, non-profit Traditional Medicare, which works for the public good, and privatized Medicare Advantage which gives huge profits to private insurance corporations. Medicare Advantage is bad for individual recipients and very bad financially for the country. Medicare Advantage is allowing big insurance companies to take…

I’m concerned about a new potential threat to our government because the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court is considering and might overturn the 1984 “Chevron deference” doctrine. This technical principle lets federal agencies interpret laws passed by Congress, with the courts deferring to the expertise of the agencies who make the detailed rules needed to implement…