How Insurers Get Extra Medicare Payments for Diseases No Doctor Treated
WSJ What’s News
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🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:15.1 | President Biden says he's not stepping aside as the Democratic candidate. And, a new Wall Street Journal investigation shows how insurers get billions of dollars and extra payments from Medicare for diseases that no doctor treated. |
| 0:32.0 | Plus, U.S. juries are going nuclear on corporations, |
| 0:36.0 | imposing hefty verdicts on businesses more frequently |
| 0:39.0 | as they try to stand up for the little guy. |
| 0:41.0 | The average American has very few places where they can really |
| 0:44.4 | exercise power. One of them's the voting box, the other one is the jury box. It's |
| 0:49.6 | Monday July 8th. I'm Francesca Fontana for the Wall Street Journal. This is the PM edition of |
| 0:55.5 | What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today. |
| 1:00.4 | President Biden is quote-unquote running this race to the end. |
| 1:07.0 | That's what he said today in a letter to congressional Democrats as public and private |
| 1:11.4 | calls for him to drop out of the election get louder. |
| 1:14.0 | The president said it was time for conversations about changing nominees to stop. |
| 1:18.0 | What Biden's trying to do is quell the concerns over his fitness to serve a second term as president. |
| 1:23.4 | Concerns that have been growing since Biden fumbled his first debate against Trump. |
| 1:27.8 | The president also called in to MS NBC's morning Joe to make the same arguments. |
| 1:33.2 | The bottom line here is that we're not going anywhere. |
| 1:37.3 | I am not going anywhere. |
| 1:39.2 | I wouldn't be running if I didn't absolutely believe that I am the best candidate to beat Donald Trump in 2024. |
| 1:46.0 | Biden has been bleeding support among Democrats as their nominee. |
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