Lives ruined. G.I. Bill mortgages heading into default, mass firings of veterans across the government, and 80,000 job cuts coming to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, all in the name of supposed cost savings sought by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. But a new U.S. Treasury Department report …
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Last night, Donald Trump hosted his MAGA rally to Congress, offering little policy or coherent vision for the State of the Union — just more attacks on our nation’s veterans and boasting about how great America has become in six weeks. It was a nice preview of what the immediate …
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Two months after the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson sent shockwaves through the much-reviled U.S. health insurance industry, the company’s parent, UnitedHealth Group, is making aggressive moves to protect its image. Responding to a slew of attacks online, often coupled with the glorification of Luigi Mangione (who was charged …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s long and tumultuous road to Donald Trump’s Cabinet faced its toughest test on Wednesday, when the vaccine conspiracy theorist and former presidential candidate appeared before the Senate Finance Committee to defend his nomination as Health and Human Services secretary. Once a staunch critic of Trump, Kennedy …
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Joe Biden concludes his single term as, paradoxically, one of the best and worst presidents to occupy the Oval Office. Biden’s remarkable service to the country includes defeating Donald Trump in 2020 — which in that moment had the air of saving American democracy. A seasoned dealmaker from his career …
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A former senior executive in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, Mr. Naj divides his time between overseeing medicine companies he has founded and writing; his latest book, Pandastic Times (Brazen House), is a fable of the Covid pandemic. Some two decades ago, when I mentioned what I did for a living …
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Americans who are sick and dying should mostly blame themselves for their health condition. That’s what Sen. Roger Marshall said as Republicans are poised to cut health care access and increase costs for millions of Americans. “Look, about 70 percent of your health outcomes are determined by you,” Marshall said …
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The parenthetical space between Christmas and the new year is the closest thing many of us get to Jubilee, the ancient biblical holiday in which debts were forgiven and indentured servants were released from bondage. Instead of relief from the $1.2 trillion Americans hold in credit card debt or the …
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Most Americans think that health insurance profits and claim denials played a role in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to a new survey by NORC at the University of Chicago. Since his killing on December 4, social media users have repeatedly expressed their anger with the health …
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Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to state murder and terror charges tied to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, The New York Times reports. Mangione appeared in Manhattan court Monday, Dec. 23, to enter his pleas to the 11 charges against him, including first-degree murder as an act of …
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