Big Medicine's Monopoly Problem: Corporate Consolidation Is Costing You Everything w/ Emma Freer, American Economic Liberties Project

Giant corporate conglomerates may control your health insurance, your hospital, your doctor's office, AND your pharmacy - and it's costing American families $37,824 a year in employer coverage alone. It's time to break up Big Medicine. Emma Freer of the American Economic Liberties Project unpacks the corporate consolidation crisis destroying American healthcare, and the growing bipartisan movement to fix it in this #CareTalk episode with show host, cancer survivor, and health care advocate Laura Packard from Health Care Voices. Find out more about the Break Up Big Medicine coalition: https://www.breakupbigmedicine.com/ Plus Louise Norris from healthinsurance.org and Diane Archer from Just Care answer your American health insurance and health care questions on Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, private insurance and more. This episode has more about how to handle a surprise medical bill if your insurance refuses to cover it, what Medicare does and does not cover, figuring out what insurance plan is right for you, and Medicare and Ozempic coverage. New episodes of Care Talk every Tuesday, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Text or call in your health insurance and health care questions in to (202) 838-6837 to get answers in future shows! Free or Low Cost Health Care Resources on our show page: https://healthcarevoices.org/caretalk