Jennifer Bendery is a senior politics reporter for HuffPost. She has covered Congress and the White House for HuffPost since April 2011. She previously reported on Congress for four years for Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, and spent four years covering the Texas Legislature for GalleryWatch in Austin, TX.
’s nominee, Demetrios Kouzoukas, to a key board overseeing the finances of Social Security and Medicare, citing his “deeply unethical” conflicts of interest, HuffPost has learned.
“I think you think you’re going to get away with this by just not answering the question, and not having any clip that admits how much money you’re taking from a private insurance company that makes its money through Medicare Advantage,” Warren told him. “And at the same moment that you’re trying to take a public role that will influence whether we focus on the fraud in Medicare Advantage, or whether we turn a blind eye to it.
In a letter obtained by HuffPost, Kouzoukas last week told Warren that he won’t resign from the insurance company job, and he won’t withdraw his nomination to be a public trustee.So, Warren confirmed Wednesday that she will vote against his confirmation and will be encouraging her colleagues to do the same.
In his letter, Kouzoukas defended his decision to keep his job on the health insurance company board by claiming that trustees’ reports don’t address “topics like ‘overpayments’ to Medicare advantage plans.”Warren is the only Democratic senator so far who has raised concerns with Kouzoukas, but some progressive groups have been urging his defeat.
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