{"id":5821,"date":"2025-08-04T23:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/maga-influencers-medicare-advantage-drug-price-transparency-reports-health-insurer-earnings-health-care-inc-newsletter\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T23:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:02:37","slug":"maga-influencers-medicare-advantage-drug-price-transparency-reports-health-insurer-earnings-health-care-inc-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/maga-influencers-medicare-advantage-drug-price-transparency-reports-health-insurer-earnings-health-care-inc-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Faux price transparency, MAGA MA, and UnitedHealth\u2019s other data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: Faux price transparency, MAGA MA, and UnitedHealth\u2019s other data breach<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>This is the online version of STAT\u2019s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/category\/health-care-inc\/\">Sign up here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back, pals. What I\u2019m reading: A profile of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/29\/world\/africa\/kenya-runners-doping.html\" rel=\"noopener\">running program in Kenya<\/a>, one that includes immense talent but also a doping crisis as runners attempt to escape poverty. Send me your good reads, your running routes, and any and all health care tips: <a href=\"mailto:bob.herman@statnews.com\" rel=\"noopener\">bob.herman@statnews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-faux-transparency-of-drug-prices\">The faux transparency of drug prices<\/h2>\n<p>The entire pharmaceutical industry faced a moment of reckoning in 2017, right after President Trump was elected the first time and said drug companies were \u201cgetting away with murder\u201d over their high prices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/04\/maga-influencers-medicare-advantage-drug-price-transparency-reports-health-insurer-earnings-health-care-inc-newsletter\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bob Herman<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/04\/maga-influencers-medicare-advantage-drug-price-transparency-reports-health-insurer-earnings-health-care-inc-newsletter\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: Faux price transparency, MAGA MA, and UnitedHealth\u2019s other data breach This is the online version of STAT\u2019s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc.\u00a0Sign up here. Welcome back, pals. What I\u2019m reading: A profile of the running program in Kenya, one that includes immense talent but also a doping crisis as runners attempt to escape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,2208,2182,2178,2210,2211,2288,2213,153,2266,2176,2151,2144,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-drug-development","category-drug-pricing","category-government-agencies","category-health-care-inc","category-health-care-inc-newsletter","category-health-insurance","category-insurance","category-legal","category-medicare-advantage","category-pharma","category-policy","category-politics","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}