We have another Medicare Advantage scandal brewing. The Department of Justice has just filed a complaint against three major health insurance companies—Aetna, Elevance Health, and Humana—under the False Claims Act. And let me tell you, this is a perfect example of how the left’s obsession with government-controlled healthcare is fundamentally flawed.
These insurance giants allegedly paid illegal kickbacks to broker organizations like eHealth, GoHealth, and SelectQuote. Why? To boost enrollments in their Medicare Advantage plans. Now, if the free market were allowed to function without excessive government intervention, we wouldn’t be seeing these perverse incentives.
The DOJ claims that Aetna and Humana conspired to discriminate against disabled Medicare beneficiaries. Why? Because they were perceived as less profitable. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how markets work. In a truly free market system, companies would compete to serve all customers efficiently, not engage in this kind of discrimination.
In conclusion, government overreach in healthcare creates these exact scenarios that the left claims to want to prevent. It’s objectively clear that more regulation isn’t the answer—it’s the problem. And that’s something the Medicare-for-All crowd simply cannot refute.
