Opinion: $66 billion in taxpayer money is getting sucked into this Medicare Advantage black hole

Where’s DOGE when you really need it?

The Trump administration claims it is taking a chain saw to the federal budget to pay for its massive, unfunded proposed tax cuts. Congress is looking to slash safety-net programs for the poor, such as Medicaid, to try to make the math add up.

Meanwhile, a new government report has revealed that a staggering $66 billion in taxpayers’ money being paid to big insurance companies is apparently going unaccounted for, or at least unmeasured, as part of the gigantic $550 billion-a-year Medicare Advantage (MA) program...