This is only the beginning.
...Last Thursday, StatNews ran an important story headlined, “Justice Department sues Medicare Advantage insurers and brokers, alleging kickbacks.” The story’s sub-headline named names: “Aetna, Anthem, and Humana paid brokers to steer people into their MA plans, DOJ says.”...
The brokers?
...eHealth, GoHealth, and SelectQuote ...
The charge? That the brokers pushed higher-risk customers away from CVS, Elevance (Blue Cross) and Humana and by doing so they got bonus payments from the brokers.
DoJ has receipts, too, including email traffic.
Childers has a thought on this.
...The DOJ’s lawsuit against Aetna, Humana, Elevance, and the major brokers signals a seismic shift in how the federal government is finally —finally!— starting to target the real pandemic profiteers: not just Big Pharma, but also Big Insurance.
Since ObamaCare passed in 2010, the DOJ has given big insurance the kid-glove treatment. The industry became a de facto protected class, benefiting from a political “look the other way” sentiment, since the government needed insurer cooperation to ensure the fragile national healthcare system worked. We know about the ongoing problems because some brave people —like Dr. Oz, who is now the CMS Director— have complained long and bitterly about all the Medicare fraud and corruption.
But now it’s a new day. People are fed up with big insurance. Their decade of gentle DOJ protection —currency for helping prop up the system— is over. The official détente is now collapsing under the weight of fraud, greed, and public fury. This new lawsuit represents the first major DOH push in fifteen years to unwind the insurer-broker kickback racket and bring accountability to the pandemic’s disaster capitalists....
"Fed up" is what Luigi Mangione was. There was a reason.
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