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Blue States Look To Fleece Small Businesses To Pay Medicaid Bills
5+ hour, 18+ min ago (167+ words) Unleash Prosperity California Governor Gavin Newsom is climbing aboard the scam by signing the “Fair Share From Big Corporations Act” ordering a potential “premium payment” tax for employers with workers enrolled in Medicaid. Three other Blue States – Colorado, Oregon and…...
Why Are Profitable Hospitals Tax-Exempt “Non-Profits?”
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (203+ words) Why Are Profitable Hospitals Tax-Exempt "Non-Profits?" Unleash Prosperity FROM THEUnleash Prosperity Hotline Why Are Profitable Hospitals Tax-Exempt “Non-Profits?” It’s not just federal payment and regulatory policies that have driven consolidation of the hospital into massive health conglomerates, but also their…...
Hospitals and Insurers Are Getting Rich Off Medical Fraud
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (617+ words) Polls show Americans are angry — and rightly so — at accelerating medical bills. Meanwhile, the insurers and hospitals keep raking in record profits. UnitedHealthcare just reported jumbo profits so far in 2026, and in 2025 they recorded revenues of more than $400 billion. They…...
Dr. Oz Is A Fraud Fighter
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (136+ words) Dr. Mehmet Oz, who administers the Medicaid and Medicare programs for the federal government, has expanded the fraud busting program he started in Tim Walz's Minnesota to all 50 states. Hooray! [caption id="attachment_43017" align="alignnone"... Dr. Mehmet Oz, who administers the…...
UP Co-Founder Steve Forbes Explains the Hospital 340B Drug Scam
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (150+ words) Speaking of stupid laws: Created by Congress in 1992, the 340B Drug Pricing Program requires pharmaceutical manufacturers participating in Medicaid to sell outpatient drugs at steep discounts to certain “covered entities,” including hospitals and clinics that serve low-income and uninsured patients… A…...
Health Care Price Transparency Makes A Comeback
6+ mon, 5+ hour ago (29+ words) Unleash Prosperity Health Care Price Transparency Makes A Comeback Laffer estimates that full price transparency can cut medical costs by nearly $1 trillion....
Federal Spending on Obamacare Has DOUBLED Since 2020
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (146+ words) We noted this in the HOTLINE several weeks ago with our back of the envelope math. Now, we have validation from Johns Hopkins Professor Ge Bai and TCU Professor Elizabeth Plummer in the WSJ: Taxpayers paid more than $114 billion directly…...
Health Care Inflation Began Way Before Obamacare
8+ mon, 5+ day ago (143+ words) An astute HOTLINE reader sent this chart showing that the real explosion in health care spending started when LBJ and his Great Society enacted Medicare and Medicaid in the mid-1960s. These federal programs grew in cost at three to four times…...