All posts tagged "Medicare"

Two judges appointed by President Donald Trump have overturned a fellow Trump appointee and revived a whistleblower's Medicare fraud lawsuit.

On Tuesday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel vacated a 2024 decision by U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the Middle District of Florida. Appeals Court Judges Elizabeth Branch and Robert Luck found that Mizelle used "fictional" reasoning to kill a lawsuit brought by a Medicare whistleblower, according to the court's ruling.

Branch and Luck were both appointed by Trump, just like Mizelle, whom they overruled. Judge Federico Moreno, a George H.W. Bush appointee, joined them for a unanimous ruling....

Democrats need to shine a light on potential harm caused by Donald Trump's mega spending bill, a Democratic lawmaker said on Saturday.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, where he warned all U.S. citizens about "devastating" impacts on the horizon due to the Republican spending priorities.

Krishnamoorthi said it's important to note, "There's also potentially cuts to Medicare that are about to happen."...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) came down hard on his party for meddling with Medicaid and possibly requiring co-pays for Medicaid recipients seeking medical care.

"It's reverse class warfare, is what it is," Hawley told CNN's Manu Raju Wednesday. "It's taxing the poor to give to the rich, and I'm totally opposed to that."

Hawley took issue with changes to Medicaid — long considered an untouchable entitlement that Hawley called his "line in the sand" — in the draft House version of President Trump's "big, beautiful" spending bill. ...

House Republicans figuring out how to pay for Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" spending bill are in a bind over whether the president will flip-flop on cutting entitlements, according to The New York Times.

So far, Trump has repeatedly claimed, “We’re not cutting Medicaid, we’re not cutting Medicare, and we’re not cutting Social Security."

He told NBC News last weekend that he would veto the bill “if they were cutting” Medicaid. “But they’re not cutting it. They’re looking at fraud, waste and abuse. And nobody minds that.”...

Billionaire Mark Cuban offered up his unsolicited advice to the Trump administration on how to reform Medicaid without making any cuts to the entitlement.

Congress has been trying to figure out how to give President Donald Trump his "big, beautiful" spending bill without making cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. Trump himself has said the entitlements would not be touched.

However, DOGE's Elon Musk indicated in a March Fox News interview that entitlements would be on the table, saying, "The waste and fraud in entitlement spending — which is most of the federal spending is entitlements — so, that’s, like, the big one to eliminate. That’s the, sort of half-trillion, maybe $6-700 billion a year." ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) had hoped to pass the gubernatorial baton to his wife, Casey DeSantis, when his full term runs out in 2027, describing her as the right person to take his accomplishments "to the next level.”

But an analysis piece in The Guardian suggested that a brewing financial scandal could derail the couple's plans of political dynasty and keep Casey DeSantis from even declaring her candidacy.

According to The Guardian, a charity Casey founded in 2021 called the Hope Florida Foundation with a mandate to reduce government funding for welfare programs has become "mired in controversy," as first reported by The Tampa Bay Times....