A 50-46 party-line Senate vote preserved the Trump administration's AI-driven Medicare coverage review program. Every Republican voted to keep algorithms — operated by private contractors — between seniors and their care.
Peer-reviewed research links private equity hospital acquisitions to more than 20,000 excess deaths. Regulators have had the data for years. The industry kept acquiring.
The Trump administration's six-month freeze on new Medicare home health and hospice enrollments is framed as fraud prevention. The mechanism it uses punishes patients who need end-of-life care, not the bad actors already inside the system.
Children account for the highest death rate on organ transplant lists — a result of federal guidelines that favor adults and Congress's refusal to fund life-saving technologies.
HHS is investigating 13 states for 'coercing' healthcare providers to perform abortions — reframing emergency medical care as religious persecution while maternal mortality climbs.