'The Great Obamacare Enrollment Fraud' visualized and explained 🧵📊⬇️ ~5 million people are enrolled in the 100-150% of FPL income category illegitimately. Cost to taxpayers:🚨$20 billion 🚨in 2024, while insurers and unscrupulous brokers reap significant windfalls.

And it's raising Part D premiums considerably.

Biden: "$8,000 gets written off" and then something about the ACA that doesn't make much sense. Reality: his policies have led to an unbelievable amount of fraud and waste with large handouts to insurers. wsj.com/articles/the-2… Phil Kerpen Dean Clancy theo merkel

The “Medicare cuts” line has come up a few times. Everyone acknowledges that the program needs to be put on a firmer footing. A major problem is that the recent reductions went right back into ineffective new government programs

‼️Congress is opening an investigation into the great Obamacare enrollment fraud, which Paragon Health Institute uncovered a few weeks ago. Great step by Energy and Commerce Committee Ways and Means Committee House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸. We estimate the fraud at $20 bn this year. washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06… Phil Kerpen Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸

Most scholarship on "social determinants of health" is substandard and fails to disentangle causation from correlation. wsj.com/articles/not-e…

Great event coming up on July 29 featuring Secretaries Azar and Sebelius to discuss site neutral payments. Full details and registration below. paragoninstitute.org/event/medicare…

Mark your calendars! 📅 On July 29th Paragon will be host an event on Medicare Site Neutral Payment ‼️ Featuring former HHS Secretaries Alex Azar and Kathleen Sebelius, and insights from The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, American Progress, & Rachel Cohrs Zhang Sign Up⬇️ paragoninstitute.org/event/medicare…

Paragon Health Institute just released Medicaid Financing Reform: Stopping Discrimination Against the Most Vulnerable and Reducing Bias Favoring Wealthy States. Our proposal would end federal discrimination against kids, pregnant moms, seniors, and the disabled. 🧵 paragoninstitute.org/medicaid/medic…

The per enrollee cost of #Obamacare's Medicaid expansion is much more expensive than experts projected! This week's #ParagonPIC shows actual per-enrollee federal Medicaid spending from 2014-2018 vs. @CMS's 2013 projections. paragoninstitute.org/paragon-pic/me…

Looking forward to discussing site neutrality with this group and hearing from two former HHS Secretaries on a bipartisan Medicare reform!

.Kathleen Sebelius: “Why pay for a differential in care prices if the care that is delivered is the same?” Bi-partisan event on the importance of site-neutral payments underway hosted by Paragon Health Institute

Site neutrality is a rare policy win/win/win: savings for patients, for the Medicare program, and the health system overall. Replay of the event available in the link below.

The federal government sends far more Medicaid money per person in poverty to wealthy states than poorer states! Our #ParagonPIC shows the strong positive correlation between federal #Medicaid spending per person in poverty and state per capita income. paragoninstitute.org/paragon-pic/hi…

Partisan Part D redesign was rushed, fudged, and seems to have broken program as we know it. So Biden admin spends billions of taxpayer $$ through a fake demonstration to prevent a premium spike in an election year. Great write up by Jackson Hammond paragoninstitute.org/paragon-progno…

Medicaid reform can save vulnerable Americans — and money — despite the usual criticisms. | Liam Sigaud trib.al/HpmyzJa

New from American Action Forum, Steve Parente and I estimate VP Harris' 2019 Medicare for All proposal would increase federal spending by $44 trillion over 10 years. americanactionforum.org/oped/medicare-…

My new article STAT: Health Care Price Regulation Is Undemocratic Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health BSPH / HPM Johns Hopkins University statnews.com/2024/08/30/hea…