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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

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Headlines from DC

Trump administration weighs pausing new international student visas at all U.S. institutions. Read the latest. Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Lots of movement on Trump’s “big beautiful bill” this week. He wants it passed by Friday. But will it happen? More details here. Monday, May 19, 2025

DOJ investigating UnitedHealth Group for Medicare fraud. Read the latest. Thursday, May 15, 2025

President Trump to sign an executive order lowering the price paid for pharmaceuticals by Medicare / Medicaid. Read more. Monday, May 12, 2025

Whispers

Hearing that Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) and chair of the House Freedom Caucus is not on board with the reconciliation package that is currently being pushed. Will we make the Memorial Day deadline? Is it doomed? TBD…

Dr. Wyatt Decker, EVP Value Based Care at UnitedHealth Group just said at Axios Future of Health that they will “…never use AI to deny care, that needs to be a doctor to doctor conversation.”

Overheard at the Axios Future of Health Summit “The middlemen are destroying American medicine. Let pharma and health insurers stay in their lane and stop squeezing every drop of profit out of the system.” – Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC)

Dr. Casey Mean’s last minute nomination to be Surgeon General is NOT going over well in Washington and medical communities.

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