The CMS said it will withhold over $259 million in Medicaid funds from Minnesota, an effort the Trump administration says is part of a larger crackdown on fraud in federal healthcare programs.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Move Over Dr. Google, You’re Being Replaced by Dr. ChatGPT Health
How are people filling in the information gap between physician visits? Data going back nearly 30 years shows patients flocking to the internet for information on diseases and conditions. Dr. Google is a euphemism for people using the search engine Google to query medical conditions. Nowadays patients have an even more powerful health information source: artificial chatbot ChatGPT Health.
Wednesday Links – 25 February 2026
- CMS to publish network lists for Medicare Advantage plans.
- Peru’s new President taps Hernando de Soto to be prime minister.
- American foods banned in many European countries: Ritz Crackers, Twinkies, Coffee-Mate, Froot Loops, and Gatorade.
- CMS has removed nearly 1.5 million ineligible individuals from (ACA) marketplace subsidies, saving approximately $10 billion annually through its fraud crackdown efforts.
- GAO: In FY 2024, 16 federal agencies reported a total estimate of about $162 billion in improper payments across 68 programs.
5 takeaways from the Supreme Court’s tariff smackdown
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling against President Trump’s use of tariffs revealed the best of the court — and the worst in Trump. The decision will have far-reaching implications. Here are five.
- The decision was a victory for the U.S. Constitution.
- The three dissenting conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Smauel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh — got it wrong for all the wrong reasons.
- The challenge of returning the tariffs collected under the law was not a justification for supporting the administration’s actions.
- Trump’s press conference in response to the ruling was an embarrassment for him, not for the six justices who ruled against him.
- Trump quickly imposed 10 percent tariffs across the board under a different law, referred to as Section 122, and then raised them to 15 percent.