Tim Walz allowed at least $9 billion go out to unvetted agencies and individuals with no accountability at all. Staying in the Midwest in neighboring Illinois, they have been hit with massive billions as well. There were 13 individuals charged in July 2025 "for schemes billing more than $1.83 billion to government programs and private insurers.
Betty, an 81- year-old widow, owns multiple properties worth $1 million, liquid assets, including stocks, bonds and cash worth $2 million, a a long-term care insurance policy for four years of care up to $126,000/ year. Betty could meet the income requirement even though her income is above the monthly allowable amount of $2.982 for a single person by establishment…
PacificSource Health Plans, one of Montana’ s three primary health insurance providers, will cease its Montana operations and exit the marketplace by the end of the year. The health insurance company has operated in Montana since 2012, providing individual, small and large group, ASO and Medicare Advantage health plans, and is contracted with more than 90% of…
CEDAR RAPIDS— A Cedar Rapids man is accused of theft and insurance fraud after investigators said he submitted life insurance claims for three children whose deaths could not be substantiated. Thompson Nagbe Jr., 37, made two fraudulent life insurance claims on policies he enrolled in through his employer, according to a Linn County criminal complaint.
The personal information of an estimated 132,000 Rhode Islanders was involved in a January cyberattack on Beacon Mutual Insurance, the Warwick- based workers' comp company revealed this week. Karen Greco, spokesperson for the Rhode Island Department of Administration, told Rhode Island Current in an email Friday that the affected individuals included a few…
PacificSource Health Plans, one of Montana's three primary health insurance providers, will cease its Montana operations and exit the marketplace by the end of the year. "This includes exiting the individual market, as well as the state of Montana." According to information provided to the Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, PacificSource…
For decades, female sterilization has been one of the most common forms of birth control in the U.S.: 11.5% of U.S. women, ages 15-49, use female sterilization as their primary contraceptive method– nearly identical to the pill. But the history of sterilization is also deeply entangled with coercion in the form of racial targeting, invalid consent and state…
The following information was released by the Federal Reserve Board:. Thank you, Jens, and thank you to the European Central Bank for the opportunity to speak to you today.1 Like other central banks, the Federal Reserve is confronted with how to respond to the effects of the conflict in the Middle East, which has constrained supplies and raised prices for…
