A review of 90 government audits reveals that health insurers that issue Medicare Advantage plans have repeatedly tried to sidestep regulations requiring them to document medical conditions the government paid them to treat.
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Friday, September 12, 2025
How Medicare Advantage Plans Dodged Auditors and Overcharged Taxpayers by Millions
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:55 am | 11 Comments »
Draper’s Millions: The Philanthropic Wellspring of Modern Race Science
How sustained funding legitimated race sciene.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:44 am | 37 Comments »
We Are Sixteen Years Old
Wow! Sixteen years! A short walk down memory lane and many thanks.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:55 pm | 59 Comments »
Drought in the United States: A Primer and Review of 2022 (with some Action Items)
Enough background information so that you, readers, can interpret the news on drought — especially in the Southwest — and apply your critical thinking skills
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:25 pm | 27 Comments »
Links 12/18/2022
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 171 Comments »
House Committee Wraps Up Historic Investigation Into Oil Industry
A congressional panel released another round of internal oil industry documents, capping off a two-year investigation.
Topics: Commodities, Energy markets, Environment, Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:55 am | 12 Comments »
Links 12/17/2022
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 232 Comments »
The Political Disruptions of Fiscal Austerity
Confirmation that austerity is bad for political stabiity because ordinary citizens don’t take well to their governments treating them badly.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Social values, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:41 am | 17 Comments »
The Political Economy of Effective Altruism
How the effective altruism discourages collective action….by design.
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:21 am | 25 Comments »
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Topics: Australia, Curiousities, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Real estate, Ridiculously obvious scams, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:06 am | 13 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/16/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 65 Comments »
Michael Hudson Discusses the Future of Europe and Global Restructuring
Michael Hudson describes how the war with Russia is changing the economic and political order, and not to the advantage of Europe and the US.
Topics: Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 43 Comments »
Links 12/16/2022
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 150 Comments »
Will the Fallout from “Qatargate” Splatter the European Commission?
As the Qatargate scandal widens, questions are being asked as to whether its reverberations will reach the Commission, the EU’s executive branch. Recent revelations suggest the EU’s Chief Diplomat Josep Borrell could be implicated.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:54 am | 16 Comments »
Stocks Open Eyes, See Fed Pivot Hawkish; ECB Hike into Recession, Start QT; BoE Hike into Recession; SNB Hike, Sell Foreign Currency Assets
ECB’s assets drop by €800 billion. Mexico hiked too today, way ahead of the Fed, keeps peso from falling against USD.
Topics: Credit markets, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Investment outlook, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:31 am | 14 Comments »