Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives.
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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.
Posted inEducation in America
Conservatives Have Big Plans for D.C. Public Schools
Making vouchers universal in D.C. would be universally unpopular, but there’s nothing to stop the GOP.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
UnitedHealth’s K Street Army
The health care conglomerate keeps former Hakeem Jeffries staffers and a Trump White House aide on its payroll.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Suicide by Rental Truck: America Gets Another Violent Wake-Up Call From Vets in Distress
Twenty years of war has created tens of thousands of broken men and women.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
We Already Run the Post Office Like a Business
The U.S. Postal Service loses money because of stifling rules and a mandate to serve the entire country. Privatization would only raise costs and reduce service.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The VA’s Self-Made Dialysis Disaster
The agency has been getting played for years, but is reluctant to change.
Posted inTAP
How AARP Shills for UnitedHealthcare
Today on TAP: Why does the supposed advocate for the elderly steer them to the industry’s worst insurer?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Dr. Oz and the Stealth Destruction of Medicare
The TV doctor’s scams and fake cures are the least of what makes him so dangerous as Trump’s appointee to head Medicare and Medicaid.
Posted inEducation in America
A Win for Kentucky Public Schools
Kentucky voters soundly rejected sending taxpayer dollars to private schools, showing yet again that Kentuckians stand with public educators.
