"The No Surprises Act was designed to eliminate surprise medical bills, for patients who showed up in the emergency room and were treated by a doctor who didn’t take their insurance...By all accounts, the law is successfully protecting patients against bills from doctors they never chose. But it has also generated an expensive unanticipated consequence: Doctors have flooded the arbitration system with millions of claims."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/politics/doctors-insurers-arbitration.html

#healthcare #insurance #arbitration #UScongress

In an ideal democracy, voters get to choose politicians. With gerrymandering, politicians get to choose voters. Now that there is a lobster or "lobstrosity" in Virginia, Republicans should have figured that out when they set an example for Democrats to follow.

https://reason.com/2026/04/22/virginias-grotesque-gerrymander-and-the-bipartisan-death-of-redistricting-reform/

#gerrymandering #democracy #elections #DemocraticParty #GOP #redistricting #Virginia #USCongress #USPol #USPolitics

"Democratic lawmakers are demanding that the Trump administration halt plans to collect sensitive medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, as well as their family members."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/opm-federal-workers-health-records-hipaa-democratic-letters/

#healthcare #insurance #HHS #HIPAA #healthIT #infosec #data #privacy #UScongress #USpol

If you understand that Israel has us on a leash or are just unhappy with how things are, vote for this bill. https://lustra.news/en/us-congress/civic/legislations/foreign_funding_prohibition_act/

#USCongress #Economy #Taxes #Law #LustraBolebaba1