Humana's Medicare Crisis Exposes the Fragility of Privatised Public Health Insurance Models Worldwide
US health insurer Humana faces a potentially catastrophic convergence of regulatory rate cuts and quality rating downgrades in its Medicare Advantage business, threatening hundreds of millions in annual revenue. The crisis offers a cautionary study for governments globally that have turned to managed care and private insurers to administer public health programmes. As utilisation costs surge post-pandemic, the structural tensions between profit-driven insurers and public health obligations are c
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