Joe Grogan

My latest piece in @WSJ Agency Overreach Leaves Patients Untreated by @RealJoeGrogan ⁦@USCSchaeffer⁩ ⁦@YouDecideHealth⁩ wsj.com/opinion/agency…

Thank you @Michelle_Vought for standing by @RussVought47. It's outrageous that public servants have to go through this. It's sick. Thank God for men like your husband and @MarkPaoletta

Wow

This ad is so disgusting. @YouDecideHealth

More Kim Brandt please @ddiamond. More exposure of fraud and more @RepGuthrie

It is also classified as a rural hospital so it can access the 340B program, a program meant for indigent hospitals.

I stopped by hearing today on @CMSGov anti-fraud efforts CMS’s KIM BRANDT: we saw an 89-year-old woman with 5,029 claims for skin substitutes. @RepGuthrie: is that improper payment or fraud? BRANDT: that would be fraud. And she would be mummified if that was actually the case.

Excellent work by ⁦@Paragon_Inst⁩ to expose what the dc health media has been ignoring. foxnews.com/politics/fraud…

Michael, fair enough. It was obviously worthless when Clinton renamed it, and the illusion of usefulness was made manifest by giving it actual roles and expanding it in the ACA. It's a worthless agency. Just because the ACA says it has worth doesn't change its essential nature.

It's a ridiculous agency that doesn't do anything meaningful and has consistently failed to provoke improvements in health or cost savings. Another worthless creation of the ACA. @YouDecideHealth

Is a U.S.-Japan drug pricing deal up next? Japanese PM (@JPN_PMO) Sanae Takaichi (@takaichi_sanae) visit @WhiteHouse next week is another opportunity for @RealDonaldTrump to work w/allies to establish Rx price fairness for U.S. patients, manufacturers & workers. @WSJopinion

.@_GlobalLiberty @HooverInst @joshrauh: "There’s a classic statement by Milton Friedman: 'One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.' The intentions can be good, but you have to judge on the basis of results." stanfordreview.org/economic-truth…

Every politician in Washington is promising to alleviate the “affordability crisis.”  But nobody told that to the trial lawyers and some Members of Congress — who are supporting and using a century-old law to sue companies for the high crime of lowering consumer prices.

NEW: A top aide to Zohran Mamdani just traveled to the UK to help the Labour Party and Green Party replicate his campaign strategy. The far-left isn’t just organizing locally anymore. They’re coordinating across borders — taking it global. Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky must be smiling up from hell.

Insanity

On May 17, 2023, the @FT ran this headline: “Yanis Varoufakis is back — and he has a plan. The leftwing former Greek finance minister is making waves ahead of Sunday’s elections.” Inside the article, one could read: “But although Greece has begun to put the economic woes of the past decade behind it, the appeal of political radicalism of the sort Varoufakis represents endures, especially among the young. And this is something the next government cannot afford to ignore.” ft.com/content/f3f128… Now consider what happened four days later. In the election, Varoufakis’ party, MeRA25, finished eighth, with 2.63% of the vote and zero seats. Of course, getting an election wrong can happen to anyone. Forecasting politics is difficult. But after reading the article, I called several close friends who happen to be Greek and, well, economists. All of them told me that MeRA25 had no meaningful traction and that the reputable polls: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_p… were consistently pointing in that direction. What surprised me was not that the article turned out to be wrong. What surprised me was the disconnect between the article’s tone and the information publicly available at the time. For a newspaper whose readership consists largely of business professionals who rely on accurate information to make decisions, this kind of misreading is unfortunate. But more seriously, the article seems part of a broader pattern. For example, I wrote today a critical response to a recent @FT article on Spain and Pedro Sánchez: x.com/JesusFerna7026… Several readers pointed out similar problems in coverage of their own countries. In their view, the decline in standards at @FT over the last decade has been one of the more troubling developments in the European media landscape. There is also a larger issue at play. If major newspapers of record develop a reputation for letting narrative outweigh evidence, public trust inevitably declines. Readers might reasonably wonder: if reporting can be this inaccurate in one case, where else might the same problem occur? Experts and institutions have lost credibility in recent years for many reasons. But one key factor is the growing perception that analysis often reflects preferences more than evidence. What surprises me is how little awareness there seems to be of the extent of the damage this causes. And I say all this precisely because institutions like the FT matter too much to let their standards slip.

🚨 It is time for New York to come clean about its Medicaid program. Today, I sent a letter to Governor Hochul demanding answers and detailed documentation about the state’s fraud detection, program integrity infrastructure, managed care oversight, and corrective actions. Protecting beneficiaries and ensuring proper stewardship of Medicaid funds remain central to the federal-state partnership, and we at CMS stand ready to eradicate the fraud, waste, and abuse happening in New York. Governor Hochul and her team have 30 days to respond to our request. If we’re not satisfied with their response, we will take corrective action.

Hospitals—perhaps more than other healthcare players—have enormous political power, so they’re able to strongarm Washington into advantageous reimbursement models—actual providers, not so much. While taxpayers foot the bill for expensive Medicare base payment rates, hospital execs rake in extra cash. @Brian_Blase nailed it.

This prevents kids from developing skills.

This is not a new problem. In 2013, @GOPoversight released a bipartisan report, Billions of Federal Tax Dollars Misspent on New York’s Medicaid Program. NY has the most egregious, corrupt Medicaid program in the US. Three cheers for @DrOzCMS & @CMSGov. oversight.house.gov/wp-content/upl…

new report from @Logan_Kolas & me: "The AI Terrible Ten: The Worst State AI Policies and Four Better Models to Balance Safety and Innovation." A deep dive into some of the most problematic AI ideas and bills spreading across America today. Link below.