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The Christian health care cash grab

A conservative lobbyist created an exception for faith-based health coverage, opening the door for “bad actors”

Salon

Sen. Ossoff of Georgia seeks out common ground to make deals with Republicans

ATLANTA — Some politicians like to talk about their legislative proposals that were signed into law. U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff seems to delight in discussing how his bipartisan measures came about.

Tribune News Service

Garcetti India nomination clouded by uncertainty after vote

A politically divided U.S. Senate panel has advanced former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s nomination to become ambassador to India

The Independent UK

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1/10th of Congress needs dementia test under Nikki Haley plan aimed at Trump and Biden

WASHINGTON – How old is too old?

Tribune News Service

Chuck Grassley’s grandson mocked for declaring war on ‘entitlement’ in midst of ‘nepo baby’ political career

Pat Grassley serves as Speaker of the Iowa State House

The Independent UK

Republican targeting Hunter Biden says: ‘I don’t target individuals’

Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson grilled on why Jared Kushner should escape scrutiny for profiting from proximity to presidency

The Guardian - US

Chasten Buttigieg rips Fox News over interest in partner’s paternity leave: ‘Go yell at an M&M’

Chasten Buttigieg criticised Fox News saying ‘it’s been 17 months. You need new material’

The Independent UK

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Afghan refugees in US face uncertainty as legislation stalls

Thousands of refugees who fled Afghanistan and now live in the United States are facing an uncertain future

The Independent UK

Editorial: The Senate fails Afghans and US service members

Let’s get right to the point: If and when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Chuck Grassley ever again try to prop up their bona fides as supporters of U.S. troops and our allies abroad, they should be laughed out of the room.

Tribune News Service

Big Tech divided and conquered to block key bipartisan bills

A passionate and bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the country’s largest technology companies collapsed this week, the victim of an epic lobbying campaign by Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta.

Tribune News Service

Congress Yet Again Fails To Pass Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reforms

A compromise to cram crack sentencing reform into the year-end omnibus spending bill fell apart at the last minute.

Reason

Did Medicare Advantage plans overcharge?

Some Medicare Advantage plans failed to produce any records to justify their payments, government records show

Salon

Trudy Rubin: Will Congress really send 80,000 Afghans back to the Taliban?

Before the United States made its chaotic exit from Afghanistan in August 2021, Congress had promised special immigrant visas to Afghans who worked with our military or civilians. Once our allies were without the protection of American forces, they would surely face Taliban revenge.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

How Medicare Advantage plans dodged auditors and overcharged taxpayers by millions

In April 2016, government auditors asked a Blue Cross Medicare Advantage health plan in Minnesota to turn over medical records of patients treated by a podiatry practice whose owner had been indicted for fraud.

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Medicare Advantage health plans dodged auditors, overcharged taxpayers millions

A review of 90 government audits reveals the plans have repeatedly tried to get around mandates to document medical conditions the government paid them to treat.

Salon

The Medicare Advantage plan scandal

Health insurers that issue Medicare Advantage plans have repeatedly tried to sidestep regulations, audits find

The Independent UK

Senators want answers in wake of AP’s prison investigations

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he plans to question the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons this week about why the agency continues to stand by a high-ranking official who beat Black inmates in the 1990s

WEKU

How Medicare Advantage plans dodged auditors and overcharged taxpayers by millions

A KHN investigation found when some Medicare Advantage plans got a rare federal audit, they couldn't produce billing records for care they said they'd provided. Some blamed fire, flood — or doctors.

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The Independent UK

Warnock delivers 51-seat Senate for Democrats, and much more

Raphael Warnock’s victory in swing-state Georgia gives Senate Democrats a 51-49 majority

Reason

Devin Nunes' Libel Claim Over Rachel Maddow Show Broadcast Can Proceed for Now, as to One Assertion

From today's decision in Nunes v. NBCUniversal Media, LLC by Judge P. Kevin Castel (S.D.N.Y.): Plaintiff Devin Nunes, a former Member of the House of Representatives, alleges that he was defamed by defendant NBCUniversal Media, LLC. According to Nunes, statements made on the March 18, 2021 broadcast of The Rachel…

Los Angeles Times

His term expiring, Garcetti pushes hard for job as ambassador to India

LOS ANGELES — With less than a month to go before he leaves office, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is pressing his effort to get the U.S. Senate to confirm his appointment as ambassador to India, a fraught campaign complicated by a Republican senator whose office is trying to renew…

Reason

Nancy Pelosi Embodied America's Gerontocracy Problem

She was the beneficiary of a political system that limits opportunities for new ideas and new faces to rise.

Salon

3 Republicans decline to endorse Trump

After Trump's big announcement, GOP mostly responds with "silence"

Tribune News Service

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Rocky road ahead for McCarthy

For the past two years, Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi has conducted a political science class in how to manage the House of Representatives with a bare four-seat majority.

ABC News

The most historic results from the US midterm elections so far

As the results of the US midterm elections stream in, let's break down some of the noteworthy victories and defeats.

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