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Sick of Fighting Insurers, Hospitals Offer Their Own Medicare Advantage Plans

Ever since Larry Wilkewitz retired more than 20 years ago from a wood products company, he’s had a commercial Medicare Advantage plan from t...
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Striking members of the United Nurses Associations of California and Union of Health Care Professionals hold signs along the picket line outside a Kaiser Permanente hospital in San Diego, California, U.S., January 26, 2026. (Reuters/Mike Blake)

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Around 31,000 registered nurses and healthcare professionals will go on strike at Kaiser Permanente’s facilities in California and Haw...
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