Scalise says GOP looking at "fraud fund" to go after health care fraud among recon 3.0 payfors
Q's tho about how much savings CBO will give to fraud ideas especially if they are operational changes
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(If recon 3.0 happens at all)
Scalise on mod concerns re reopening health care issues:
"That actually protects health care...This actually strengthens the programs by going after the people that are stealing money from those programs."
Stricter Trump admin rules for work requirements set off clash with blue states
Oregon Health Authority spox: "These rules differ significantly from the guidance that we had been operating under," will have to "rework and reprogram" IT systems
CMS spox defends narrower exemptions from work requirements
"ensures that the exclusion is appropriately targeted and does not become a blanket exemption that undermines the purpose of the work requirement"
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Sen. Murray on Alexander:
"I miss him a lot...He was somebody I could talk with privately or sit down and work with and there was a mutual respect. It has been very difficult here without people like him.”
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About 70,000 people died of drug overdoses in the US in 2025, down from about 81,000 in 2024, per new preliminary CDC data
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Interesting praise of Makary from a Dem, Sen. Durbin, who is very active on the vaping issue:
"I hope Dr. Makary will inspire others within the Trump Administration to grow a spine and put the families of America ahead of blind loyalty to this President."
W&M Chair Jason Smith says "hospitals are charging an insane amount for care" at hearing w hospital ceo's
"Every time we try to advance these so called site neutral policies, big hospitals they fight us, they fight us tooth and nail."
"Chris Klomp has been unbelievable, a real star," Trump says
"You don't know his name as much as some of the others, but he's a real star of the group."
re HHS chief counselor
RFK brings up the AI cancer dog story
"I just was reading about a dog that had cancer and his owner used AI to develop a personalized treatment that cured the cancer. We're going to see that now in medicine, across medicine and we're very excited about it."
Murkowski says she was just in Fairbanks, Alaska which had 152 consecutive days of temperatures below zero
(Talking about importance of heating aid/(LIHEAP to RFK)
GOP Sen. Barrasso brings up RFK vaccine changes at hearing.
"I think that there's been more confusion for families and for providers" from the changes, he says
Barrasso also expressed concern at last hearing in sept