Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives.
Medicare
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Aging Members of Congress Refuse to Disclose Details of Their Top Secret Hospital
The Office of the Attending Physician gives politicians nearly unlimited medical care for about $54 a month.
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Federal Funding Must Flow
With Medicaid at risk, state officials could help put the brakes on DOGE and the chaos generated in Washington, but only with some decisive pushback.
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Pete Hegseth’s Venmo: Defense Contractors, UnitedHealth Execs, Fox, and Friends
The VA may be the next government agency to go dark, if Pete Hegseth’s digital Rolodex is anything to go by.
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Trump’s Big Choice on Drug Prices
By following through on Biden’s Medicare price negotiation program, he can take credit for prescription reductions. But Big Pharma doesn’t want that to happen.
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UnitedHealth’s K Street Army
The health care conglomerate keeps former Hakeem Jeffries staffers and a Trump White House aide on its payroll.
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How the AMA Undermines Primary Care
Federal regulators, under Democrats and Republicans alike, help them do it.
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Health Care Rip-Offs, Globalization, and the Uncertain Future
Co-editor Robert Kuttner’s Best of 2024
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The VA’s Self-Made Dialysis Disaster
The agency has been getting played for years, but is reluctant to change.
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Congressional Drug-Pricing Reforms Upend Trump’s Strategy
He has typically allied with Big Pharma, pointing fingers at pharmacy benefit managers. But a bipartisan agreement could do away with that gambit.