Private insurance companies just got a massive boost to their payments through the program, while DOGE fires the people responsible for oversight.
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rule by Contractor
DOGE is not about waste and efficiency—it’s about privatization.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump’s Fox in the Social Security Henhouse
His nominee to head the SSA backs technology over people, and DOGE over seniors’ needs.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Move Fast and Break the Mortgage Market
The chief regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is now also the board chair of both companies. What’s the long game here?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Private Equity Vultures Descend on Care Facilities for the Disabled
A new report chronicles ten years of consolidation.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Doug Collins’s Cancel Culture
The VA secretary is targeting the wrong contracts to eliminate waste and inefficiency.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump’s Third Rail
The sneak attack on Social Security creates new vulnerability for Elon Musk and for the entire Trump project of destroying government.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Even Under Trump, Americans Can Fight Climate Change
And the most equitable way to do that is through publicly owned utilities.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Did Luigi Save the UnitedHealth Case?
While shutting down dozens of corporate crime probes, the Trump DOJ seems to have jump-started a forever investigation into the mega-insurer’s billing practices.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Secret Society Raising Your Electricity Bills
A breakthrough report details how utility companies use bogus models to earn excess profits.
