{"id":2505,"date":"2025-05-17T10:42:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T14:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2025-05-17T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T14:42:18","slug":"how-health-insurers-stole-140-billion-a-year-and-stand-to-take-even-more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/2025\/05\/17\/how-health-insurers-stole-140-billion-a-year-and-stand-to-take-even-more-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Health Insurers Stole $140 Billion a Year- And Stand to Take Even More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mehmet Oz, the recently-confirmed administrator of the Centers for Medicare &#038; Medicaid Services. says that he wants to expand Medicare Advantage \u2014 a program that former health insurance executive Wendell Potter calls \u201cone of the biggest scams [&#8230;] we\u2019ve seen in this country.\u201d It lets private health insurers siphon tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to pad their bottom line, but is sold as a way for seniors to save money. In reality, it costs taxpayers 22% more than traditional Medicare. We investigated why Trump and Oz want this program to be even bigger, and who the biggest winners (and losers) will be if they do.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The $140 Billion A Year of Waste That DOGE Won&#039;t Touch\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IzapflBvR9A?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mehmet Oz, the recently-confirmed administrator of the Centers for Medicare &#038; Medicaid Services. says that he wants to expand Medicare Advantage \u2014 a program that former health insurance executive Wendell Potter calls \u201cone of the biggest scams [&#8230;] we\u2019ve seen in this country.\u201d It lets private health insurers siphon tens of billions of taxpayer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}