For-profit insurance companies like UnitedHealthcare are defrauding taxpayers out of $80 billion a year. HHS Secretary Kennedy claims he wants to "clean up corruption" while he is doubling taxpayer dollars to these companies. That sounds like the real "waste, fraud, and abuse."
Jfc
He seems to be not aware of any darn thing!
Absolutely correct. And I really hope if you guys take back both the house and the Senate you work going straighting this crap out and get us the proper compensation from these crooked fraudulent businesses and corporations. And I still seriously hope that you replace Chuck The Cuck Schmuck Schumer
In the Senate. I know you're valuable in the house but you're more valuable in the Senate both for New York and for the country. And I will if I'm able donate directly to your campaign I don't want to damn Penny of it going to the DNC I wanted to go directly to the candidates I donate to. Thank you
In general, UHC pays claims at the lowest rates while also reimbursing providers the lowest rate. Imagine that. We should start a private, nonprofit option.
Maybe I meant public option but something unaffected by Congress and not so-called nonprofit.
I hope y'all sprayed some Lysol when he left the building.
She ate him for lunch!
The only thing that Kennedy is aware of is how tan he can get his face. He doubled rate bc he gets a kickback. Another good choice Republicans! VOTE THE OUT Protest. We're all getting screwed by healthcare providers & insurance companies. 30 million people is a drop in the bucket. Time to march!
“ I’m not aware…. I’ m a heroin addict”
Capitalists let people die for profit after the mass murderers got scared because a peasant served justice on one of them and let less people die they got fucking sued for it This is capitalism start fucking naming it
Every time Kennedy gets questioned he doesn’t seem to have a clue what’s going on. He comes across as a spineless lackey. He’s either an absolute moron or it’s more performative politics. Most likely both.
He really does seem to just spout out nonsense. No clue if this is malicious or if there's something wrong with his brain. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Has RFK said one thing that is not a lie?? I mean starting from his stupid confirmation hearings when he should have been bounced.
>For-profit insurance companies like UnitedHealthcare are defrauding taxpayers out of $80 billion a year.... doubling taxpayer dollars to these companies. How much longer till we see more like Luigi
Nailed it.
Because his new job came with socialized medical coverage for life so he has to make the guy who did that, happy. He doesn't need to know anything about how to actually do the job.
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We need to be that ALL health ins co, even self-funded health insurance, CANNOT double dip, by taking patient assistance from Rx co & NOT apply it to your deductible. That pa money should go to our deductible or oop. @pattymurray.bsky.social @emilyrandallwa.bsky.social @cantwell.senate.gov
Private insurance is the great American grift. Healthcare should be a universal right of all people. It’s the ethical and moral responsibility of a decent just government for all people.
Truth! It is the only answer.
And how much are Sec. Brainworm, #Krasnov and the other traitors getting in kickbacks?
Go AOC! Working for ALL Americans except WASP donors and this corrupt administration.
Your telling me Sister... Just imagine how much WFA Oracle has in the medical system.. It's as bad as their record exterminating veterans.
She got him to squirm in his chair! 👍🏼
Kennedy is high.
Keep holding them to account!
#AOCforPresident.
This guy is crazy or stupid? Or is he just a lying guy?
You did a masterful job of exposing how incompetent, corrupt and dangerous he is. Brava!!
In every hearing Kennedy had NO idea what his agency is doing! 🤬
Robert, AOC is very kindly proving you are incompetent, unprepared, and unqualified for the position. By your own admission. Most businesses would not be so kind.
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Absolutely. Anyone else would be fired for fraud, dereliction of duty, child endangerment, ETC. It's enraging he holds that position.
RFK Jr only got more into politics because he was running out of his inheritance and needed money. It’s all about the money 💰
Indicative of the real welfare queens and terrorists we need to worry about, not someone from another country. Your oppression is their profession.
Imagine if that money went to a single payer public healthcare system instead of paying for the lavish lifestyles of insurance execs and private equity billionaires.
Nationalize the health insurance industry.
Thank you!!
To kill us off, as in us, a bunch of us old farts!
Thank you AOC for driving it to his face.
Luigi intensifies...! 😡😡😡
I’m not aware I’m not a real Kennedy I’m a Heroin Addict and Vaccine Denier That’s why The Felon hired me To Destroy HHS
Always remember that he first wanted a cabinet position with Kamala - and she turned him down. The orange idiot was his second choice.
So? He's completely unqualified for the position. He should have been turned down by Trump, too, except that that asshole is making it all up as he goes along, and doesn't have any desire to actually perform the duties of the presidency beyond those that will overlap with his self-enrichment.
You're missing the point. The point is, he's a whore. He just wants power, regardless of who he has to shack up with. Has no real convictions.
Pretty much nails any trumpian. trumplethinskin was a democrat until he realized they were more intelligent and wouldn't buy the lies so easily. The rest are just profiteering criminals same as trump.
It's not that democratic or left-wing voters are more intelligent, it's just that we don't want the lies that he wanted to tell. The shit he makes up never came out of nowhere; they're the shit he WANTS to be true.
Very well put 👍
Until Democrats get the presidency and the majority in the house once again, incompetent people like JFK Jr. shall continue to thrive.
There is your waste, fraud and abuse. Right THERE!!!
Go AOC‼️😡‼️😡‼️😡‼️
Thank you for speaking truth to power.💙
Thank You AOC. I admire your tenacity and attention to detail. You may not represent my district, I have a great deal of respect for you.
I am a resident of NYC
You're my hero.
@petermorley.bsky.social
And their Part D plans, which bill 30X more than normal, are never audited. It's the Skeletor Rick from Dago Ron's white trash 🗑 Florida grift. Someone callling herself Maria just called my 88 y.o. mother & said they wanted to send her some home wellness check bullshit person; they give the
hoi polloi a $25 gift card just for showing up that they probably bill Medicare for $100. "No thanks.", Mom said. "I don't need that. If I'm sick I go to the doctor. And I can take my owh blood pressure." Unless & until, the failed democratic republic of the US of Forced Birth, Death,
Surveillance Capitalism, & Moral Bankruptcy gets the profit 📈 motive & the greed soaked, private white corporationpeople insurance companies out of the system, life expectancy will keep going down 📉 & the bean counters will keep killing citizens dead in favor of share price & quarterly earnings.
"How is that happening?!" he asks incredulous. Why, sir, you're in CHARGE! (Said with flair and with the intercontinental accent of 1 1940s movie)
We need more of this. Keep kicking ass AOC!
To the rich that's called business. To give people universal Healthcare that cuts into profits so that is waste fraud and abuse
Remember. Regan (not Nixon) fucked over the health care system. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_...
Reagan led us to exactly where are today.
Tbf, I'm sure if Nixon had 2 full terms as POTUS... he'd have been neck & neck with trump for worst, still in 2025.
True. But, I’m still sticking with Reagan as the worst. Savvy while laying the foundation to this horrid administration…with many of his same people paving the way for 40 years. Looking at you, McConnell and friends.
Oh of course, Rumsfeld was shaking hands with Saddam in the 80s under Reagan and doing BS victory lap your in Iraq 20yrs later while I was deployed there. (He visited my base in Tikrit, I was only soldier in my platoon that didn't go see him during the visit. Fuckin war criminal.)
Good on you. That must have been hard in so many ways for you. Thank you standing in your truth. I also think of Bill Barr, Scalia, Rehnquist…
Reagan admin was like an NFL coaching tree with so many branches, but for Republicans, the complicit and ignorant dark side.
They are the real welfare queen.
The Constitution is under attack. The Rule of Law is under attack. Due Process is under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack. Democracy is under attack. Chump is a tyrant. Maga is a cult! SCOTUS is corrupt! Congress is complicit! #impeachtrump
We should be allowed to change our provider now that we have this information.
AOC the most BAD ASS representative in congress and just maybe our 2028 candidate? Vote Blue always for freedom and the Rule of Law.
We could use her as senate minority leader in 2026 as well (replacing chuck stern letter)
That works for me, I’m 74 and see a glimmer of hope with her and I want age and term limit’s of 63 and 2 terms only in any elected position. Thank You for Replying.
Bro’s response is basically, wait so my job isn’t just to villainize vaccines? Anyway, good thing we are going to stop the strapping young men who love their yearly physical more than having money. Cuz that’s where the real medical abuse is
Ok, and how are they committing fraud? I am all for stopping fraud and abuse but can you provide details? Like as bad as nursing homes, fraud or Senator Rick Scott fraud? Just asking…
I agree, AOC does need more time to thoroughly excoriate the fraud and completely end the abuse of taxpayer dollars immediately. If you have follow-up questions it may be a good idea to search your question, I'm sure the information is readily available.
Guess what…I know where to look but it’s not just United, which here in NY has less complaints then 6 leading insurers…we had oversight, all firms are audited annually accept Medicare Medicaid…the laws are loopholes So if it truly is a problem then fix the damn laws, just like IMMIGRATION
Universal healthcare sounds like a no brainer in that light...
RFK Jr:
What is waste- private insurance companies making money off of denying people care!
I receive at least ten calls per day trying to sell me advantage care policies. The calls are intrusive and annoying.
You need to break it down to per person
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First thing we need to find out is how much stock Donald Trump owns of United healthcare I bet it’s a lot
AOC, keep delivering the inconvenient truths.
My favorite part of the clip: "With a 'B'. Billion. Yeah.😊" Her expression is priceless.
Are you aware, Mr. Secretary, that you are a complete and utter imbecile? RFKJr: I'm not aware of that, but it doesn't surprise me.
Castrate the #oligarchy
So true, babe
Luigi made the world a better place and anyone who disagrees not worthy of hearing
Give that greased up, steroid junkie, lunatic all he can handle Rep Ocasio-Cortez !!
Kennedy generally hates medical advances but he sure could use a hearing aid.
#FireRFKjr #BringSMARTback
Good time to remind everyone that Senator Rick Scott of FL made his fortune defrauding healthcare as CEO of Columbia/HCA in the 1990s.
Defrauding Medicare… on purpose.
He quite frankly has no clue.
He needs to start with himself!
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So the waste, fraud, and abuse 🤔 was likely found to be the company *United Healthcare) allegedly. They are the largest which makes sense they'd be able to rack up the largest amounts. I guess the question is: While they're in litigation, why propose giving them an increase of more than 5%?
It's only waste, fraud, and abuse if it benefits lower-income people.
Does R.F.K. even know what his job is?
Just a ditzy waitress, huh? She just ran circles around his sorry ass…
Having worked in the US in Healthcare i can tell you united"healthcare" is the absolute worst of a really bad lot....
Wish everyone in Congress fought for Americans instead of themselves!!
Thank you, Rep Ocasio-Cortez. Excellent questioning. The waste, fraud and abuse in with the Corporations...not the people on Medicaid. Keep up the fight. Kill the Big, Beautiful Betrayal.
Utter nonsense mate
Seems like you should be the one running HHS since you actually know what’s going on with it. That exchange made perfectly clear that you have a mastery of the subject matter. While Kennedy showed himself to be both uninformed and oblivious.
Oh, FFS!
Let go the “pharmacy benefit manager”. What a scam
If he's not aware, then he should be arrested for fraud
Workers of the world uni... Wait, lemme put an American twist to it so y'all get it. AVENGERS, assemble!
Thank you for everything you do 🙏
Question needs to be asked of him. “Mr Kennedy since you don’t seem to know just what is going on within the HHS, who is it that is running it?”
AOC, YOU ARE SO HOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RFK doesn't seem to be aware of much.
Reasons we had a Luigi...
Don't look now, but insurance is NOT health care. Premiums are NOT health care. Pre-existing conditions are definitely NOT health care.
Yeah but they won’t go after them because they won’t get their cut.
RFK Jr is a fucking moron.
How John Roberts Created the Anti-constitutional Monster Devouring Washington. From ushering in Citizens United to granting presidents broad immunity, no one in the capital is more responsible for Trump’s destructive 2nd term than the Supreme Court’s chief justice www.vanityfair.com/news/story/h...
Get ‘em!🤘😁
That's what MAGA and DOGE were and are all about: To remove any roadblock for right-wing waste, fraud and abuse!
Of course the Trump administration will make all the waste and fraud much much worse
Fabulous!!
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I appreciate your voice for the People, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.
Start deporting them or prosecuting them or this is for nothing
Competition for highest fraud $ for increased DoD in the Big Ugly Bill He seems off guard on all questions....actors in the corruption show
& if you read this AOC… thank you.
The entire country is aware but not rfk? Spell it out AOC! God, I love this woman! Or we will soon automatically all be enrolled in United Medicare Advantage!
Rick Scott got a slap on the wrist and a very steep fine, then got elected to Congress. What do we expect from corrupt people and companies when they have been skirting laws and consequences for ages.
Excellent job! I made everyone watch you today 💙🗽Thank you.
Doing the work that Doge SHOULD have been doing, right there! 😂 The complete lack of understanding by the Secretary of State is seriously worrying. The complete control and execution by AOC is seriously impressive!
This is how the ACA, a Heritage Foundation drafted bill, was designed to function. Healthcare has gotten worse in America, the CEOs have gotten stupidly wealthy, and that’s what the ACA does.
Please share this remarkable letter with your Democratic colleagues. WE NEED YOU TO STEP UP NOW. www.change.org/ClockIsTicking
For profit health care is evil.
It’s the providers, very rarely the insured.
Go AOC!!
Thank you for always being so prepared and making these corrupt morons look like the know-nothing corrupt morons they are.
Thank you, @aoc.bsky.social, for working so hard to protect us, despite the evils you face daily simply by doing your job. This kind of leadership gives us all hope that we desperately need.
How much does UHC pay Kennedy??
Not to mention the fact that he is a f’cking unqualified crackpot who is going to kill us all.
The system needs restructuring. Now: it’s like trying to fit a state into a double wide. No solution. Except: Universal healthcare
There is a bit more to the story. UnitedHealth Group is owned by a Private Equity company called Optum, and like most everything run by PE, it fails, and they sell off the assets for profit. Read a book called "Bad Company". See this article: www.thebignewsletter.com/p/private-eq...
United Healthgroup owns Optum… and Avmed, umr, aarp, united shared services and 100s more. But, I think AOC already knows this.
I'm sure she does. I merely wrote that for others.
UHG owns Optum. Not Optum owns UHG. Thank you for your service. ;) the article was a great read.
Before HHS cleans up $80B in Medicare Advantage fraud, maybe start with travel insurers like Generali Global Assistance, Airbnb partner, who falsely accuse sick travelers of forgery to avoid paying under lawful policies. This rot begins at the bottom. #InsuranceAbuse #HIPAAViolations #FraudByDenial
In meantime, you have HHS Prioritizing partisan noise over real patient rights violations? That’s a disturbing signal. #HIPAA #HealthJustice #Accountability #InsuranceAbuse #ExposeGenerali #Justice4Travelers #PrivacyMatters
AOC for pres!!!
This is almost embarrassing to watch. It reminds me of when I was in law school and the professor was quizzing some poor snook who didn’t read the assigned cases. Um ah ah um…
And trump calls her stupid
At a minimum, 2nd hand embarrassment. That, “yeeeaah” was 👩🍳💋
Of course he's not aware. Such an inept Cabinet.
Medicare Advantage is a racket. Expose it.
"Private health insurance" has to be about the best example of parasitism there is. Basically a hedge fund that takes money and does not provide anything for it.
Let’s not forget medical equipment companies, drug companies, and hospitals that over bill Medicare and Medicaid…
Thinking that brain worm is still alive.
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UHC is horrifying. I blindly signed on with them for a PPO medigap policy & RX coverage - my mom had them 15 years ago, and they were excellent. A week later, their CEO was executed. I don't advocate violence, but I do understand the helpless rage.
Kennedy baits AOC by asking her the questions back for her to answer her own question. He doesn't have to answer her question because he asks 'well how did I do that' which prompts her to answer for him. What a snake 🐍 🐍 🐍 🐍 🐍 Kennedy is. It's too bad she didn't see this.
My UnitedHealthcare supplemental to Medicare just increased $90.00+ a month! It has been increasing every year. They price us out of care.
Medicare Advantage is only advantageous for health insurers' profitability.
Who’s really running HHS Cause it sure isn’t him. He’s not reviewing anything, he’s not managing anything, he’s not aware of anything. Does he even show up outside of coming to these hearings. WEI hire!!
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The cyber attack… gosh.. almost killed me. Then for United to deny claims for timely … smh.
AOC for president!
Lmfao
AGREE!!! And I'm not even american. 🤣🤣🇨🇦
Same here! She, along with a few others, is what politicians across the world should aspire to be.
what DOES that sentient overcooked ham know? anything at all?? are we sure he's even aware of his own name?
thank you
Always spot on. Thank you!
Middlemen are a big problem in the health industry.
I guess this is one of those instances where ignorance is bliss amazing WTF Is he doing there?
You were incredible!! Shame on them…it’s sickening
You were brilliant in this exchange. He has no clue what he's doing or what's happening in his own agency.
And people wonder why Luigi has such a groundswell of unironic support.
Thank you, Rep Ocasio-Cortez. You seem to be one of the few elected officials in Washington who actually looks out for the public.
The only truths he's ever told are: he's an addict; he hid a bear cub carcass in a park; and he once strapped a whale to the roof of his car, while its whale juices dripped on his children.
Oh, and that a worm ate his brain. I have no doubts he told the truth. I've seen the evidence.
Humana too
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We need to outlaw for-profit health insurance. Immoral!
omg yes. it's obvious.
and the legal system is in on it
Medicare "Advantage"---the privatized form of Medicare that about half of Medicare recipients receive---is the largest cause of Federal govt waste and fraud.
it's the epitome of 'Middle Man'-takes seniors $ and provides very little health. Humana's another one-many areas it's hard pressed to find rehab(as in physical rehab)facilities that will take it so vulnerable patients are sent home far to soon after operations/extended illness.
Talk to credible Drs&RNs they're disgusted by it. Straight Medicare is far better.
where can a layperson get more information on this topic?
see below
www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/u... below and prospect.org/health/2023-...
Oh god… the risk assessments.. stop asking us to send you records for your risk assessments !
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well, that and also bad foreign actors hacking our shit... about 200 of them were the winners at trump's Mar-a-lago memecoin contest dinner...
Lotsa talk. When are you actually going to do something about it?
You tell us what one House member can do. Go-
How about - take the lead in developing some useful legislation that both parties can accept, recruit supporters and work across the aisle to make it palatable to enough people to pass. This might be tough, but I've seen absolutely no effort of any kind in that direction from AOC. NO leadership.
Oh, and I need links from legit outlets. No screenshots or videos. You'll never provide what I'm asking for, at which point you should fess up to not knowing what you're talking about.
OK, so you just confirmed that you have no idea what you're talking about. Seeing as ONE party refuses to accept anything that the other one does, just because it's from that party, how does that work? That party is clearly the GOP. Please cite examples where House GOP took on a Dem bill. Go-
Biden did it. He had the GOP ready to pass his border & immigration bill, until the orange traitor ordered them not to. Biden was a REAL leader. And ad hominin attacks are the last resort of someone losing an argument. You sound like a blue version of a cultist.
OK, you keep proving I'm right and you don't know what you're talking about. You're saying that a president and a single House member are equivalent? Confirm. (Fair to warn you that if you do, you'll look even worse)
I can definitely confirm YOUR ignorance.
You just confirmed yours. Thanks for losing! 👍
Do you seriously think any GOP members would engage on such a thing? I have a totally different read on the current political moment than you, if you do. Trump has ordered obstruction.
Of course he has, that doesn't mean we can't fight back, try things to bring a few GOPs back to sanity, just never give up!
This current version of the GOP can only be defeated and voted out of office. It's like that with a cult of criminals, which they are.
By far the most fraud and abuse regarding Medicaid and Medicare is by providers, insurers and pharmacy benefit managers, not recipients of the services.
UHC 32% denial rate - the highest in the industry...
RFK jr: 100% denial rate
Very well layed out. “80 Billion with a B” 🙄 every one in the Trump orbit is completely out of touch with reality
Does the word inept ring a bell with anyone in the current administration? or maybe thats a word like climate or woke that must never be uttered less fearless leader Tweeco will be uncomfortable?
Thank you Congresswoman
@maximgreil.bsky.social it's almost like they have no incentive at all to care about laws or regulations I'm their pursuits of profit, and once they have enough money, that the system breaks! Would you look at that! They are redistributing it upward, illegally, how does that fit your calculations?
Hes lieing
I love this gal.
Don the Con's entire cabinet is a joke and they're laughing all the way to the bank.
They AUTOMATICALLY deny 33% of claims.
If this Administration really wanted to address Fraud/ Waste/ .....they might look at Scammers....they are prevalent, even on BlueSky....
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That’s the Heritage Foundation plan: eliminate government oversight of industry to allow more corruption, fraud and consumer abuse,
