(One of) the infuriating things about trying to discuss stories like this with the occasional liberal I encounter is that they've never read them, and simply don't want to hear about them.

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“The doctors who prescribed them would get 6% of the sales cost. And so, they were incentivized to prescribe more expensive products. In Europe, they spend 35 cents a cubic inch. We were spending $135, and that went up to $2,000 a cubic inch.”

“So 2019, we were paying $200 million. Last year we spent 14 billion. All stolen. It’s all stolen. And we were on track to spend 23 billion this year.”

“We put an end to it, and we now have driven that cost down to somewhere around a billion dollars.”

To its credit, and to my astonishment, the NYT reported on this fraud way back on April 10, 2025: Medicare Bleeds Billions on Pricey Bandages, and Doctors Get a Cut; my impression of my liberal friends’ awareness of stories like these is that it doesn’t exist — they mutter, “But, Trump!” and move on.

Unrelated, except that it’s another story they won’t hear about

South Korea to invest up to $200B in Alaska LNG pipeline, US power plants, Trump announces.

The investment also includes a natural gas plant in Texas and eight new nuclear power plants across the country, Trump said during remarks in the Oval Office.

Trump said the deal came as part of a trade agreement between South Korea and the U.S. in which the U.S. would lower the Asian country’s tariff rate to 15 percent in exchange for hundreds of billions of dollars in investment.

Trump particularly touted the Alaska pipeline investment, known as Alaska LNG because it would transport liquefied natural gas, as allowing the U.S. to export more gas.

“The United States is already the largest natural gas producer and exporter in the world, and this pipeline will help us expand those exports even further,” he said.