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Congress is finally taking on the middlemen driving up your drug costs

Every day, people walk into their local pharmacy and face a price they can’t afford for a drug they can’t live without. Families are being forced to choose between paying for lifesaving prescriptions and covering basic necessities. At the same time, the community pharmacists who provide these critical medications are struggling to keep their doors open. You deserve to know why this is happening and who is benefiting from it. The answer: We are paying the price for PBM greed.

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Opinion: This Is Not the Answer to Soaring Health Care Costs

With health insurance premiums surging again, a growing chorus of economists and policymakers has settled on a cure for American health care: Cap what hospitals, drug makers and insurers can charge. The idea shows up in many forms, including Medicare drug price negotiation, proposals to limit private hospital prices to multiples of Medicare rates, and calls for public plans that pay providers at government-set rates. Their diagnosis is half right. Prices are high, opaque and frequently baffling, and they often do not…

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America must win the biotech competition with China

The United States and China are engaged in a competition that will shape far more than the future of medicine. The country that wins the biotechnology race will wield enormous economic influence. Even more than that, this competition poses a national security threat to our very existence. For decades, the United States held an overwhelming advantage, but that lead is now narrowing faster than most policymakers realize.

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AARP doesn’t represent seniors. It overcharges them

With families still struggling after years of high inflation, “affordability” remains top of mind for policymakers in Washington. But one organization has little credibility on this front: AARP. Formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons, a more accurate moniker might be Against Affordability for Retired Persons because AARP makes most of its money by overcharging its members. As I outline in a new report for American Commitment, its most recently available financial statement shows…

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UnitedHealth Owns AARP

Well, figuratively speaking. Here are the latest findings from ace researcher Chris Jacobs on AARP’s financials: AARP has received an estimated $10.8 billion in tax-free revenue from UnitedHealth since 2007. [That’s BILLION, not million.]; In 2024, AARP received an additional $9.1 billion from UnitedHealth as an advance on future royalty fees tied to AARP-endorsed insurance plans, which AARP expects to recognize over 12 years – equivalent to roughly $755 million in annual royalty revenue; In…

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New Report Raises Concerns About Multi-Billion-Dollar “Unholy Alliance” Between AARP and Big Insurer-PBM UnitedHealth

Washington, D.C. – July 14, 2026 – Today, as part of its “Commitment to Seniors” initiative, American Commitment released a comprehensive report conducted by Juniper Research Group analyzing the scope and implications of AARP’s multi-billion-dollar financial relationship with UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest health insurance company. Key findings include: AARP has received an estimated $10.8 billion in tax-free revenue from UnitedHealth since 2007. In 2024, AARP received an additional $9.1 billion from UnitedHealth as an…

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Lawmakers Target the Power of Health Insurance Giants

After years of rampant expansion into nearly every corner of the health care system, the biggest insurance conglomerates are confronting new efforts to break up their businesses. Arguing that the companies have become too dominant, Arkansas and Tennessee passed laws that aim to prevent the companies from managing prescription benefits and running retail and mail-order pharmacies. Lawmakers in other states and in Washington have proposed similar restrictions. In response, the three companies — UnitedHealth Group,…

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Report Shows Obamacare Fraud Is Worse Than You Think

Following the expiration of the Covid-era enhanced Obamacare subsidies at the end of last year, the corporate media have remained focused on how much Exchange enrollment might decline this year. But a new report issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides another perspective on the issue. Official reports by the Congressional Budget Office and Government Accountability Office have previously examined how applicants misstate their income to qualify for subsidies and how Exchanges permitted enrollment of fictitious applicants. But the data HHS…