Biden administration seeks to crack down on private Medicare health plans - The Washington Post

In addition, the rule change would require private health plans to notify individual Medicare customers halfway through a year what supplemental benefits remain available to them. According to an HHS fact sheet, a typical Medicare Advantage plan offers 23 health benefits not found in traditional Medicare, but usage is low. The proposal's goal is to "ensure that the large federal investment of taxpayer dollars in these benefits is actually making its way to beneficiaries and are not primarily used as a marketing ploy," the HHS document says. 

Another facet of the proposal would require private Medicare health plans to expand access to mental health services by expanding the supply of behavioral health practitioners in offices and clinics, including marriage and family therapists and addiction treatment specialists.…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/11/06/medicare-advantage-health-plan-biden/

Private health insurance exists in Europe and Canada. Here’s how it works. - Vox

The debate over eliminating health insurance is actually offering a false choice...
https://www.vox.com/health-care/2019/2/12/18215430/single-payer-private-health-insurance-harris-sanders

Elizabeth Warren Lays Out Plan To Hold Health Insurers Accountable -- HuffPost:

In a speech to a liberal health policy conference, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday proposed new rules to force private insurers to be more responsive to Americans' health care needs. ...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-private-insurance-families-usa_us_5a6a0d00e4b01fbbefafbaf0

Single Payer Opponents Say The Transition Process Would Be Too Difficult. But 10,000 People Do It Every Day. -- The Intercept

Opponents of single payer health care frequently claim that such a system might be wonderful in theory, but getting there would be too disruptive. Many Americans, the argument goes, have private health insurance coverage and the transition to a government plan would be jarring. ...
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/09/new-medicare-recipients-bernie-sanders-health-care/

Kushner-Owned Company Lobbied Against Obamacare Repeal – Talking Points Memo

Jared Kushner owned a stake in his brother’s Obamacare-dependent health insurance company when it hired lobbyists to fight repeal of the law shortly before he divested from it earlier this year. 

Kushner’s younger brother, Joshua Kushner, co-founded Oscar Health Insurance to capitalize on Obamacare’s individual insurance markets by offering a web-friendly insurance option aimed mostly at younger and urban consumers. The company is heavily dependent on Obamacare’s private insurance exchanges....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/exclusive-jared-kushner-owned-stake-in-brothers-obamacare-dependent-health-insurance-company

Don’t Assume That Private Insurance Is Better Than Medicaid - The New York Times

As we recently wrote, it’s better for patients to have Medicaid than to be uninsured, contrary to critics of the program. But is having Medicaid, as those critics also say, much worse than having private insurance?

This idea has become a talking point for conservatives who back big changes to Medicaid, as the Senate health bill proposes. The poor would benefit simply by being ushered off Medicaid and onto private insurance, they write.

But it’s far from proven that Medicaid is worse than private insurance. A lot depends on what kind of insurance is compared with Medicaid, and how they are compared....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/upshot/dont-assume-that-private-insurance-is-better-than-medicaid.html

New study sharply rebukes major GOP talking point on health care -- ThinkProgress.org

 A new study strongly rejects the common GOP talking point that Medicaid enrollees are unhappy with their health care coverage, and that they would be better off buying private insurance or going without insurance altogether....
https://thinkprogress.org/new-medicaid-study-gop-satisfaction-36ec26947d3