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First on Fox: Trump admin opens new front in fraud crackdown targeting health insurers, drug middlemen
FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is lifting the hood on federal health benefits programs that cover millions of Americans, ordering insurance carriers to tighten fraud controls as part of a broader crackdown on waste and abuse, Fox News…
Big Medicare Insurers Often Deny Requests for Nursing-Home Stays
If you're a senior, the Medicare plan you choose may have a major impact on whether you can get nursing-home care when you need it—and a new federal investigation shows the largest insurers had some of the highest denial rates. Medicare…
Even with Health Insurance, Half of Working-Age People in the U.S. Can't Afford Healthcare (and a PS on Retiree Health Costs)
Nearly Half of Working-Age Adults Had Difficulties Affording Health care in 2025 is the title of new research jointly authored by the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The researchers conducted the Well-Being and Basic Needs…
The Threat of Big Insurance
Earlier this month, the California-based organization Consumer Watchdog uncovered an incredible scandal involving rideshare company Uber, which we covered on the most recent episode of my podcast Organized Money. The company pleaded to the…
Prove The Algorithm Isn't A Proxy For Race: Colorado's Test For Life Insurers
Colorado now makes life insurers prove their algorithms don't penalize people by race. Here's how the first-of-its-kind test works and why every carrier cares. Picture a regulator who tells an industry, in so many words: prove to me your machines…
Americans are having kids later - and child-rearing costs are colliding with retirement savings
For decades, having children was something many Americans did before they started thinking seriously about retirement. That's becoming less common. Americans are waiting longer than ever to start families. The average age (1) of first-time mothers…
Labor shelves private hospital pricing shake-up plan
Labor has shelved a controversial proposal to introduce a benchmark pricing model for private hospital procedures following opposition from the biggest operator, Ramsay Health Care, to what would have been the biggest shake-up to the private health…
Medicare Advantage plans denied prior authorization requests at unusually high rates, HHS report finds
Patients enrolled in some of the nation's largest Medicare Advantage plans were denied requests for rehabilitation and other critical services at unusually high rates, according to a report released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human…
Trump administration warns hundreds of hospitals to increase price transparency or face fines
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has warned more than 500 hospitals that they are failing to provide the public with basic pricing information — arguing that the lack of disclosure is keeping healthcare costs higher than…
Take Action to Fund Libraries in 2027: The Latest on the Institute of Museum and Library Services
As he did for the Fiscal Year 2026 budget, Trump once again proposed defunding the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for Fiscal Year 2027. This is his sixth attempt to dismantle the only federal agency dedicated to libraries and…
Texas May Eliminate a Critical Tool for Preventing Maternal Deaths
Texas is considering whether to continue one of its most important tools for preventing maternal deaths. The state's Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC), which investigates pregnancy-related deaths and identifies ways to prevent them, is…
GEO cancellations complicate space insurance recovery
The recent cancellation of three geostationary satellites is another blow for insurers hoping their legacy cash cows would bring home much-needed income following a bruising run of claims. SES disclosed in May it did not need the IS-41 and IS-44…
Yuanbao (YB) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 8 a.m. ET Chief Executive Officer — Rui Fang Chief Financial Officer — Huirui Wan Director — Stella Liu Need a quote from a Motley Fool analyst? Email [email protected] Total Revenue -- RMB 1.32…
Colorado kids would face brunt of federal aid cuts, new report shows
Thousands of Colorado children rely on federal assistance programs — ones the Trump administration is threatening to gut. Why it matters: Public benefits, whether food aid or health care, help keep families afloat as Colorado's cost of…
Who'll Stop the Fraud?
Long after Election Day, the ballots comin' down No IDs or postmarks wherever they are found The laws make cheating legal, and Democrats applaud And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the fraud? Fed up Angelinos, having watched their city burn…
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