This is the second article from the state and region section of the Star Tribune that I have forwarded to the National Women\u2019s History Museum. Thanks, Star Tribune, for honoring women\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
Lisa Wersal, Vadnais Heights<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s article titled \u201cState halts payments over fraud concerns<\/a>\u201d indicates that Minnesota will be halting various Medicaid program payments and has hired Optum to perform an analysis. Does Gov. Tim Walz not realize that Optum is a subsidiary of none other than UnitedHealth Group? This is the same UnitedHealth Group that the Star Tribune reported in July lost a legal bid<\/a> to rejoin Minnesota\u2019s Medicaid program after the DFL legislature barred for-profit insurers such as UnitedHealth from winning state contracts to manage care for Medicaid beneficiaries beginning in 2025. <\/p>\n So on the one hand, the DFL Legislature is banning UnitedHealth from participating in the Medicaid market, and on the other hand, the DFL executive branch is writing a fat check to UnitedHealth to audit Medicaid programs. Now I\u2019m no fan of the GOP, but I\u2019m starting to suspect things like this might be why MAGA exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the second article from the state and region section of the Star Tribune that I have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-266455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}