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      Washington Post Runs Medicare Newsletter Sponsored By Insurance Lobby Front Group

      The Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper sprinkled its coverage of an intensifying fight over Medicare with ads purchased by an organization that promotes private Medicare Advantage plans.

      Jake Johnson
      Feb 10, 2023

      The Friday morning edition of The Washington Post's Health 202 newsletter featured coverage of the intensifying back-and-forth between the Biden administration and congressional Republicans over Medicare, with each side accusing the other of wanting to cut the program.

      But the newspaper's ostensibly neutral, both-sides coverage of the high-stakes healthcare fight was interspersed with ads purchased by the Coalition for Medicare Choices, an innocuously named organization that serves as a front group for the private insurance industry's powerful lobbying group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP).

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      'Chilling': Republican State AG's Office Sought List of Trans Texans

      "This is an alarming attack on the privacy, safety, and dignity of transgender Texans," said the ACLU.

      Jessica Corbett
      Dec 14, 2022

      "Despicable." "Disgusting." "Egregious." "Terrifying."

      "What a gross abuse of power for no apparent purpose than to harass law-abiding Texans that he's prejudiced against."

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      Corporate Media Mostly Ignoring GOP Ploy to Cut Social Security and Medicare

      "Social Security and Medicare are on the ballot next month," said Matt Gertz of Media Matters for America. "If the American public doesn't know that, it's in part because the press isn't telling them."

      Brett Wilkins
      Oct 14, 2022

      Corporate media outlets are mostly ignoring a Republican ploy to use the debt ceiling fight to gut Social Security and Medicare if the GOP regains control of Congress--a plot that one leading watchdog on Friday called "perhaps the single most consequential story" of the midterm elections.

      "Social Security and Medicare are on the ballot next month," said Media Matters for America senior fellow Matt Gertz. "If the American public doesn't know that, it's in part because the press isn't telling them."

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