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Hospitals and Insurers Are Getting Rich Off Medical Fraud
2+ hour, 16+ min 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. United Healthcare just reported jumbo profits so far in 2026, and in 2025 they recorded revenues of more than $400 billion....
Dr. Oz Is A Fraud Fighter
5+ day, 8+ hour 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 340 B Drug Scam
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (150+ words) Speaking of stupid laws: Created by Congress in 1992, the 340 B 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…...
Health Care Price Transparency Makes A Comeback
3+ mon, 1+ week 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
3+ mon, 4+ 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 to…...
Health Care Inflation Began Way Before Obamacare
5+ mon, 2+ week 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…...