Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz delivered a blunt warning about Medicare fraud in Los Angeles during a recent Fox News interview: “We believe that at least half of the hospices in the entire area around Los Angeles are fraudulent.” On May 13, CMS followed with a major enforcement action, suspending payments to roughly 800 hospices that billed federal taxpayers $1.4 billion last year. Those providers will no longer be paid while off

Washington debates often sound abstract until the results show up in family bank accounts. The final filing-season numbers now show that the Working Families Tax Cuts did exactly what supporters said they would do: return money to working families quickly, directly, and at a scale large enough to strengthen household budgets. According to final tax filing-season data highlighted by U.S. House Ways and Means Republicans, taxpayers received more than $310 billion in refunds thi

School choice keeps gaining ground because parents want options, students need opportunity, and political leaders in both parties are starting to recognize the demand. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has now signaled that New York intends to opt into the federal scholarship tax credit program, a major development for one of the nation’s largest and bluest states. According to the Commonwealth Foundation, Hochul has not yet formally submitted New York’s opt-in form to the IRS, but

Hospital spending is the biggest cost driver in American health care, and Washington keeps protecting the same hospital systems that drive costs higher. Patients need more competition, not more consolidation, facility fees, and payment rules that steer care into expensive hospital settings. New Congressional Budget Office projections show the problem clearly. From 2023 through 2034, fee-for-service Medicare hospital inpatient spending is projected to rise from $145 billion to

Senator Elizabeth Warren wants ordinary taxpayers pushed into an IRS-run tax prep system, but when her own taxes got complicated, she hired a CPA. That choice tells taxpayers plenty about why independent tax help still has value. Fox News reported that Warren did not use Direct File, the IRS-run tax filing system she spent years promoting, when it became available in Massachusetts. Her publicly released tax return showed that she used a private accountant instead. Fox also re

Large “nonprofit” hospital systems have spent years using tax preferences, payment rules, and market power to enrich themselves while patients and taxpayers carry the cost. Congress is finally taking a serious look at how that system works, and the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee is right to put hospital costs under the microscope. A new analysis from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget shows how much money is on the table. The options include reforms that coul

SNAP enrollment is finally moving in the right direction. A new analysis from Jack Salmon at The Unseen and The Unsaid finds that participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program fell by nearly 4.3 million people between January 2025 and January 2026, with roughly 3.5 million of that decline occurring after Congress passed and President Trump signed H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” This is good news for taxpayers and for the program itself because SNAP

It is wrong when one part of the business sector uses government power to enrich itself and mug its competitors. It is even worse when that effort is sold as a plan to protect ordinary people. The “Main Street Depositor Protection Act,” S. 4198, fits that pattern. The bill sounds like it protects small businesses, but it would expand government-backed deposit insurance, weaken market discipline, and let smaller banks shift the cost of their preferred subsidy onto larger compe

New York City’s budget mess is quickly becoming a warning to every small and family-owned business in the country. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin are pressing Albany to cut the New York City Pass-Through Entity Tax credit from 100 percent to 75 percent. They are presenting the plan as a way to raise new revenue from high earners while the city faces a budget crisis. The political sales pitch is familiar, but the target is far broader than the slogan