| 2026-02-13 | Jim O'Neill and Mike Stuart Depart HHS in Leadership Shakeup Ahead of Midterms
3 src Jim O'Neill · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-12 | Trust in Federal Health Agencies Plummets Under RFK Jr. Despite Restoration Promises
2 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | | confirmed |
| 2026-02-03 | Congress Passes Bipartisan HHS Funding Bill Blocking RFK Jr.'s Proposed 25% Budget Cuts
2 src U.S. Congress · Donald Trump · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-02 | RFK Jr. Announces $100 Million STREETS Initiative for Homelessness and Addiction Treatment
2 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-29 | Ten Tech Vendors Offer $600 Million in Discounts to Implement Medicaid Work Requirements
2 src U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Donald Trump · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-15 | Trump Unveils 'Great Healthcare Plan' - One-Page Framework with No Specifics, Fails to Address ACA Premium Crisis
4 src Donald Trump · Mehmet Oz · CMS | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-10 | ACA Subsidy Extension Passes House via Discharge Petition 230-196
2 src Brian Fitzpatrick · Mike Lawler · Mike Johnson · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-08 | House Passes ACA Subsidy Extension 230-196 with 17 Republicans Crossing Party Lines
4 src Mike Lawler · Brian Fitzpatrick · Mike Johnson · John Thune · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-05 | CDC Slashes Childhood Vaccine Schedule from 17 to 11 Diseases, Bypassing Advisory Committee
3 src Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Jim O'Neill · Donald Trump · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-01 | ACA Enhanced Subsidies Expire, Premiums Double for 22 Million Americans
3 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · U.S. Congress · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-01 | Medicaid Expansion Funding Cuts Take Effect, Threatening 1.3 Million
6 src Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-28 | ICE Agents Enter Minneapolis Hospital Without Warrant, Handcuff Patient to Bed for 24 Hours
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-18 | Johnson Sends House Home for Recess, Delays ACA Subsidy Vote Despite Democratic Demands
7 src Mike Johnson · Hakeem Jeffries · House Republicans · House Democrats |
| reported |
| 2025-12-17 | ACA Subsidies Discharge Petition Reaches 218 Signatures as Four Republicans Defy Leadership
7 src Brian Fitzpatrick · Mike Lawler · Mike Johnson · Hakeem Jeffries · +2 |
| reported |
| 2025-12-13 | VA Plans to Eliminate 35,000 Healthcare Positions Despite Record Veteran Enrollment
3 src Department of Veterans Affairs · Richard Blumenthal |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-05 | ACIP Chair Admits Vaccine Panel Members Feel Like "Puppets on a String," Exposing Political Manipulation
7 src Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · American Academy of Pediatrics · American Medical Association |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-05 | CDC Panel Ends Universal Hepatitis B Vaccination for Newborns After RFK Jr. Reconstitutes Committee
6 src Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices · American Academy of Pediatrics · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-03 | Veterans Affairs Creates Database of Non-Citizen Employees for Deportation Targeting
4 src Doug Collins · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| reported |
| 2025-12-02 | FDA Cancer Drug Chief Dr. Richard Pazdur Resigns After Three Weeks Under Political Pressure
5 src Marty Makary · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Food and Drug Administration · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +2 |
| reported |
| 2025-11-18 | Trump Administration Reinstates 'Public Charge' Rule: Immigrant Wealth Test Returns
3 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Joseph Edlow · Stephen Miller · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2025-11-06 | Trump Announces Weight Loss Drug Price Deals With Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk
2 src Donald Trump · Eli Lilly · Novo Nordisk · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| reported |
| 2025-09-30 | Trump Signs Pediatric Cancer AI Executive Order After Cutting Billions in Research Funding
3 src Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| reported |
| 2025-09-26 | Grover Norquist and 35 Conservative Groups Urge Trump to Let ACA Tax Credits Expire While Opposing Corporate Tax Credit Expirations
4 src Grover Norquist · Americans for Tax Reform · Americans for Prosperity · David McIntosh · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-24 | ACA Enhanced Subsidies Set to Expire, Threatening 20M with 114% Premium Increases
2 src Donald Trump · U.S. Congress |
| reported |
| 2025-07-24 | UnitedHealth Confirms DOJ Criminal and Civil Investigation for Medicare Advantage Upcoding Fraud
3 src UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare · Department of Justice · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-04 | Trump Signs 'One Big Beautiful Bill' Into Law: $911 Billion in Medicaid Cuts, 11.8 Million Projected to Lose Coverage
6 src Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-30 | Senate Passes $4.5 Trillion Tax Cuts with $1 Trillion Medicaid Cuts, 12 Million to Lose Insurance
20 src United States Senate · J.D. Vance · Ron Wyden · Congressional Budget Office |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-01 | DOJ Sues Aetna, Humana, Elevance for Paying Illegal Medicare Advantage Kickbacks and Discriminating Against Disabled Beneficiaries
3 src Department of Justice · CVS Health · Humana |
| confirmed |
| 2024-12-31 | Healthcare Industry Spends Record $744 Million on Federal Lobbying in 2024, Pharmaceutical Sector Leads at $384 Million
4 src PhRMA · American Medical Association · American Hospital Association · Health insurance industry · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-12-04 | UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Assassinated in Manhattan, Exposing Public Rage at Health Insurance Industry
3 src UnitedHealthcare · UnitedHealth Group | | confirmed |
| 2024-10-31 | HHS Watchdog Finds Health Risk Assessments Drove $7.5 Billion in Medicare Advantage Overpayments Without Additional Patient Care
2 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
| confirmed |
| 2024-09-20 | FTC Sues Big Three PBMs for Artificially Inflating Insulin Prices Through Rebate Schemes
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-08-16 | Humana Pays $90 Million to Settle First-of-Its-Kind Medicare Part D Fraud Case for Fraudulent Bidding
3 src Humana · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2024-07-23 | House Oversight Releases Damning PBM Report After 32-Month Investigation: Anticompetitive Policies Exposed
2 src U.S. House Oversight Committee · James Comer · Express Scripts · CVS Caremark · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-07-18 | DaVita Pays $34 Million to Settle Third Kickback Case in Decade, Revealing Systematic Fraud Business Model
3 src DaVita · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2024-07-09 | FTC Report Reveals PBM Oligopoly: Top 3 Control 80% of Market, Extract $7.3 Billion Through Markups
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-05-06 | Steward Health Care Declares Bankruptcy After Private Equity Extracts $1.3 Billion, At Least 15 Patient Deaths Linked to Substandard Care
3 src Senate HELP Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2024-04-23 | Biden Administration Finalizes Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule Despite Fierce Industry Opposition and Republican Backlash
4 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Republican Governors · Biden Administration · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2024-02-27 | DOJ Launches Antitrust Investigation of UnitedHealth's Vertical Integration Strategy and Optum Physician Acquisitions
3 src Department of Justice · UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare |
| confirmed |
| 2023-11-14 | Class Action Lawsuit Alleges UnitedHealth Uses AI with 90% Error Rate to Deny Medicare Advantage Claims, Causing Patient Deaths
3 src UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare |
| confirmed |
| 2023-05-10 | Senate Hearing Exposes PBM Insulin Profiteering: 75% of Sales Go to Rebates and Fees
3 src Bernie Sanders · Senate HELP Committee · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2023-03-13 | ProPublica Exposes Cigna's Automated PXDX System Denying 300,000 Claims in Two Months at 1.2 Seconds Per Case
2 src Cigna · ProPublica |
| confirmed |
| 2023-01-01 | Cancer Drug Shortage Crisis Enables Gray Market Profiteering - Carboplatin Price Jumps from $50 to $500 Per Vial
4 src Big Pharma · Food and Drug Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2022-11-18 | Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Theranos Fraud, Exposing Regulatory Failures
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · U.S. Department of Justice · Theranos · Food and Drug Administration · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2022-06-14 | FTC Blocks JAB Consumer Partners Veterinary Clinic Roll-Up: Private Equity Monopolization Strategy
3 src Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2022-06-07 | FTC Launches Bipartisan Investigation into PBM Market Concentration and Drug Pricing
2 src Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Chuck Grassley · CVS Caremark · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2022-01-03 | Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Convicted of Defrauding Investors in $9 Billion Fraud Scheme
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2021-12-15 | Harvard Study Finds Private Equity Hospital Takeovers Increase Emergency Room Deaths by 10%
3 src Private Equity Industry · KKR |
| confirmed |
| 2021-11-02 | Pfizer Reports $22 Billion Profit on COVID-19 Vaccine, One of Most Profitable Drugs in History
3 src Pfizer · U.S. government |
| confirmed |
| 2021-03-01 | Private Equity Firm ReGen Healthcare Invests $100M in Failing Genesis Healthcare, Beginning Four-Year Collapse to Bankruptcy
4 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
| confirmed |
| 2021-01-01 | Hospital Price Transparency Rule Takes Effect with Widespread Non-Compliance and Weak CMS Enforcement
3 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Hospital corporations |
| confirmed |
| 2020-12-27 | No Surprises Act Bans Surprise Medical Billing After Years of Private Equity Industry Obstruction
3 src U.S. Congress · KKR · Private Equity Industry |
| confirmed |
| 2020-12-14 | NBER Study Reveals Private Equity Nursing Home Ownership Increases Mortality 10%, Causes 20,000 Excess Deaths
4 src Private equity firms · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
| confirmed |
| 2020-10-02 | Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19, Hospitalized at Walter Reed with Experimental Treatments
3 src Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Mike Pence · Hope Hicks |
| confirmed |
| 2020-06-09 | Federal Government Awards Billions in No-Bid COVID PPE Contracts, Often to Politically Connected Companies
3 src Trump Administration · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · U.S. Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2020-05-08 | AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly
3 src AbbVie · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2020-01-01 | Dialysis Industry Systematically Steers Patients Away from Home Dialysis and Toward High-Profit Commercial Insurance
4 src DaVita · Richard Blumenthal · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2019-11-15 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Completes $74 Billion Celgene Acquisition Despite FTC Concerns
3 src Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2019-10-07 | Sutter Health Settles Antitrust Case for $575 Million, Admits to All-or-Nothing Contracting and Price Concealment
3 src California Attorney General |
| confirmed |
| 2019-01-01 | NBER Study: Private Equity-Owned Nursing Homes Have 10% Higher Death Rates Due to Cost-Cutting
3 src Private equity firms | | confirmed |
| 2018-10-16 | AbbVie Humira Patent Thicket Delays US Biosimilars Until 2023 Despite 2016 Patent Expiration and European Competition
4 src AbbVie · Mylan · Food and Drug Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2018-09-17 | Cigna-Express Scripts $52 Billion Merger Approved: DOJ Greenlights PBM Oligopoly
2 src Cigna · Express Scripts · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2018-08-01 | Trump Administration Expands 'Junk Insurance' Short-Term Plans to Undermine ACA
7 src Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · U.S. Department of Labor · Department of the Treasury · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2018-07-13 | HHS Inspector General Finds Tom Price Violated Federal Travel Rules, Wasted $341,000 on Private Jets
4 src Tom Price · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| confirmed |
| 2018-02-26 | Texas Leads 20 Republican States in Lawsuit Seeking to Eliminate Entire ACA
6 src Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · U.S. Supreme Court · Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals |
| confirmed |
| 2018-01-24 | Alex Azar Confirmed as HHS Secretary After Doubling Insulin Prices at Eli Lilly
4 src Alex Azar · Eli Lilly · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Ron Wyden · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-12-03 | CVS-Aetna $69 Billion Merger Announced: Vertical Integration Wave Consolidates PBM Power
3 src CVS Health · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2017-09-29 | HHS Secretary Tom Price Resigns After $1 Million Private Jet Scandal
6 src Tom Price · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-10 | Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi Sued for Insulin Price-Fixing Conspiracy as Prices Rise 300%+
3 src Eli Lilly · Novo Nordisk · Sanofi · CVS Caremark · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-31 | Rep. Tom Price Purchases Discounted Healthcare Stocks While Drafting Industry Legislation
4 src Tom Price · Chris Collins · House Energy and Commerce Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-24 | Mylan EpiPen Price Increases 550% in Nine Years, CEO Heather Bresch Testifies Before Congress
3 src Mylan · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-15 | Raytheon Paveway Bomb Strikes MSF Hospital in Yemen, Killing 11 Including Healthcare Workers
4 src Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Doctors Without Borders · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-06-12 | Walgreens Terminates Theranos Partnership After 31,000 Customers Receive Voided Test Results
3 src Walgreens · Theranos · Elizabeth Holmes · Food and Drug Administration · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-01 | Whistleblower Alleges Dialysis Giants DaVita and Fresenius Steer Patients Through American Kidney Fund in $247M Kickback Scheme
5 src DaVita · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2015-11-19 | Johns Hopkins Study Exposes Orphan Drug Act Gaming - Seven of Top 10 Drugs Exploiting Tax Breaks for Rare Diseases
4 src Food and Drug Administration · AbbVie · Johnson & Johnson · AstraZeneca · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-31 | Valeant Pharmaceuticals Scandal Exposes Systematic Price Gouging Strategy - 3000% Increase on Syprine, Philidor Fraud Network
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Big Pharma |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-28 | DaVita Pays $450 Million for Drug Wastage Fraud, Largest Unjoined Whistleblower Settlement in History
3 src DaVita · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-15 | Wall Street Journal Exposes Theranos Blood-Testing Fraud in Landmark Investigation
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · Wall Street Journal · Walgreens · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-21 | Martin Shkreli Raises Daraprim Price by 5,000%, From $13.50 to $750 Per Pill
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2015-06-25 | Supreme Court Rejects King v. Burwell Challenge to ACA Subsidies in Federal Exchanges
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Antonin Scalia |
| confirmed |
| 2014-12-16 | Marco Rubio's Risk Corridor Amendment Triggers ACA Insurance Market Destabilization
4 src Marco Rubio · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| confirmed |
| 2014-10-22 | DaVita Pays $350 Million to Settle Doctor Kickback Allegations, Exposing Systematic Dialysis Profiteering Scheme
3 src DaVita · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2014-02-06 | Max Baucus Confirmed as Ambassador After Healthcare Industry Staffers Become Lobbyists
3 src Max Baucus · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · Merck · UnitedHealth Group |
| confirmed |
| 2013-10-01 | Healthcare.gov Launch Disaster Costs $1.7B from $93M Contract
3 src U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · CMS · Accenture |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-17 | Supreme Court Allows Antitrust Challenge to Pay-for-Delay Drug Settlements Costing Consumers $3.5 Billion Annually
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · Federal Trade Commission · Big Pharma |
| confirmed |
| 2012-12-05 | ACA Architect Liz Fowler Leaves White House for Johnson & Johnson After Industry-Friendly Healthcare Legislation
4 src Johnson & Johnson · Max Baucus · Barack Obama · U.S. Senate Finance Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2012-09-01 | New England Compounding Center Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Kills 64, Sickens 798 - FDA and State Regulators Ignored Decade of Violations
4 src Food and Drug Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2012-06-28 | Supreme Court Makes ACA Medicaid Expansion Optional, Enabling State Obstruction
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Republican Governors |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Hospital Acquisition of Physician Practices Enables Facility Fee Price Gouging, Driving 53% Increase in Outpatient Costs
3 src Hospital corporations · Private equity firms |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Nonprofit Hospital CEO Compensation Explodes: 42.5% Increase While Community Benefit Stagnates
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-19 | House Republicans Launch Six Years of Symbolic ACA Repeal Votes
5 src House Republicans · Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2010-03-23 | ACA Passes with Individual Mandate Requiring Americans to Purchase Private Insurance, Delivering Industry Windfall
3 src Barack Obama · PhRMA · Max Baucus · Nancy Pelosi |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Hospital Consolidation Wave (2010-2020): 1,164 Mergers with Only 1% FTC Enforcement Rate
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Hospital corporations |
| confirmed |
| 2009-06-01 | Obama Cuts $80B PhRMA Deal Abandoning Medicare Negotiation Promise
3 src Barack Obama · PhRMA · Billy Tauzin |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Energy and Commerce Committee Members Receive $45M From Pharma During ACA Debate
3 src House Energy and Commerce Committee · PhRMA · Pfizer · Merck |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Mental Health Parity Act Signed into Law with No Enforcement Mechanism, Enabling Systematic Insurer Non-Compliance
4 src George W. Bush · U.S. Department of Labor · Health insurance industry |
| confirmed |
| 2007-08-27 | Questcor Raises Acthar Gel Price from $1,600 to $23,000 Overnight - Eventually Reaching 97,000% Increase Through Bribery Scheme
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Humana · U.S. Congress · Big Pharma |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | Ares Management Acquires Aspen Dental: Private Equity Dental Roll-Up Strategy Launches Industry Consolidation
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2005-03-14 | Tom Daschle Joins Private Equity Firm and Lobbying After Senate Majority Leadership
3 src Tom Daschle |
| confirmed |
| 2004-12-15 | Billy Tauzin Joins PhRMA as CEO After Shepherding $200B Medicare Drug Bill
3 src Billy Tauzin · PhRMA |
| confirmed |