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Op-Ed

Bad law means bad, sometimes tragic, health outcomes

December 1, 2025December 1, 2025
Marion Mass

Pharmacy benefit managers generate massive revenues for the insurance/PBM complex and, in turn, for political campaigns and lobbying.

Op-Ed

How do nonprofit hospitals rake it in? Let me count the ways

November 24, 2025November 23, 2025
Marion Mass

Let’s end the outrageous waste of money we pay to support a corrupt, conflicted, and perversely incentivized political-healthcare-corporate complex.

Op-Ed

Undoing damage done by Obamacare: The stupidity that thwarts hospital competition 

November 17, 2025November 17, 2025
Marion Mass

Throwing more and more premium money from taxpayers at health insurance companies does not drive down the cost of anything.

Op-Ed

Free-market reforms needed in health care

October 27, 2025October 25, 2025
Marion Mass

What we now call “health insurance” is not health care.

Press Release

Fitzpatrick, Sewell launch bipartisan plan to expand physician pipeline and confront America’s doctor shortage

June 12, 2025June 12, 2025
Press Release

With a projected shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2036, the Fitzpatrick bill Medicare-supported medical residency positions by 14,000 over seven years.

Press Release

Senate committee votes to expand on Act 1 to provide no-cost diagnostic breast imaging

June 11, 2025June 11, 2025
Press Release

The legislation would allow an individual who finds an abnormality on a supplemental screening which is currently covered to also get a diagnostic screening at no cost.

Press Release

Improving Medicare, expanding access: Fitzpatrick, Tonko bipartisan bill targets seniors’ mental health needs

June 9, 2025June 8, 2025
Press Release

This bill ensures that licensed clinical social workers can fully participate in the Medicare program, expanding the mental health provider network for millions of older Americans.

Op-Ed

Speak Your Piece: Lower Bucks Hospital among many local triumphs of volunteerism

May 29, 2025May 29, 2025
Pat Wandling

Volunteerism is always a good thing, but it’s best when it’s local. And Bucks County’s citizens are eminently generous with their time and money. 

Press Release

Farry: Public Hearing Highlights Urgent Need to Address Hospital Closures, Staffing Shortages in Pennsylvania

May 8, 2025May 9, 2025
Press Release

The hearing brought together health care leaders and policy experts from across the commonwealth to offer testimony on the structural and financial challenges hospitals face.

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