By: Dianne Marie Normand Hartley
In a Monday press conference billed as “Secretary Kennedy, Administrator Oz to Host Press Conference to Discuss Groundbreaking Health Insurance Reform,” the topic was prior authorizations.
We won’t go into the weeds—you’ve heard it all before. In 2018. In 2023. And now again in 2025.
We weren’t in the room, but I imagine insurance executives were thrilled. Something along the lines of: “Thanks for not regulating us—of course we’ll begin to monitor ourselves. They’re starting to pop us out there.”