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House cuts federal spending by $61.5 billion
Medicare, Medicaid remain untouched WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House of Representatives on Saturday approved legislation to cut federal spending deeply through September, a plan that is sure to be stopped by President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats in the Senate. The Republican-backed bill is a challenge to Obama to…
Medicare chief says health law working
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s chief of health programs for the elderly and poor on Thursday said the year-old US healthcare overhaul was helping millions of Americans and called a push by congressional Republicans to repeal the law unfortunate. Medicare and Medicaid services administrator Donald Berwick, appearing before a congressional…
Feds: Firm scammed US by using dementia patients
Miami mental health center charged with using dementia patients in $200 mil. Medicare scam Federal authorities charged the nation’s largest community mental health center Thursday, alleging the Miami-based company billed Medicare $200 million in a scam that preyed on patients with severe dementia and altered their clinical files so the…
This Summer’s Reasons To Avoid Townhalls
Remember a year ago, when the world was simpler? Children were younger, the air was fresher, morons were out in your local VA hall screaming their fucking heads off about how the President was going to inject them with AIDS just so that they would have to get off their…
Today’s New Terrible World-Destroying Statistic
It has been discovered that Medicare SHOCKINGLY denies every single claim ever submitted to it, or something, which means that it’s drastically worse than private insurance which…denies at the same rate? Or something? But, when you take the “profit” out of health care, what do you find? According to the…
People of the 5th Congressional district in NC, please boot embarrassment Virginia Foxx out
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC5) is a stain on the reputation of my state. She continues to belch out the most ignorant garbage on the floor of the House. Yesterday she decided to weigh in on the health care reform debate with this doozy. Keyboard protection on. Rep. Foxx: The Republican…
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