Medicare spends huge sums financing the dental, vision, and other benefits offered by Medicare Advantage plans. A new government report sounds the alert about their potential misuse.
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Is Denis McDonough a Slow Reader?
The VA secretary’s professed ignorance about a report he commissioned describing an ‘existential threat’ to his agency is alarming.
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Sam Bankman-Fried Is Not Entirely Wrong
FTX’s victims are getting up to 143 percent of their money back, because the system treated it like the fraud it was. As the Steward case shows, that’s not usually how bankruptcy works.
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Steward Health Care’s Latest Fantasy Story
Why the bankrupt chain’s numbers don’t add up
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A Hospital Heist Seeks Protection in the Ponzi-Friendliest Court in America
Steward Health just filed for bankruptcy in Houston’s scandal-plagued, private equity–pilled bankruptcy court.
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New Bill Seeks to End Drug Shortages
The Senate Finance Committee wants to create a new program to incentivize better practices. Critics say there’s an easier way: end kickbacks between suppliers and bulk purchasers.
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Incrementalizing Cannabis
What America gets when Congress and the executive branch slow-roll progress
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Thinking Differently About Unhoused People and Their Pets
Housing advocates, animal shelters should strive to keep people and their animal companions together.
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The VA Bows to the Dialysis Duopoly
Despite contracting rules in place to give veterans safe and affordable access to dialysis, DaVita and Fresenius are picking up most of the patients.
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Where Does Medicare Go From Here: Profit-Driven Chaos or Patient-Centered Community?
After covering the Medicare privatization crisis for over two years, an investigative reporter takes a step back and examines what’s at stake.