Sep 1 2010

Gov. Tim Pawlenty to Accept Medicaid Money, but not Funds for ‘Obamacare’

The same week Tim Pawlenty signed an executive order preventing Minnesota from accepting grant money available under the new health care law, the governor said he would accept $263 million in federal funding for state’s Medicaid program. Despite earlier describing the Medicaid money as a “bailout” of the states, Pawlenty said Wednesday that he would [...]


Jul 17 2010

Medicare, Medicaid Cheats Arrested in Sweeping Healthcare Fraud Sting

Calling it the largest health care fraud sting in U.S. history, the Justice Department announced charges Friday against 94 people accused of cheating Medicare and Medicaid, The Washington Post reported. Federal agents arrested suspects in five states, rounding up patients, doctors and executives at health care firms. They are accused of bilking the Medicare system [...]


Jul 12 2010

Anti-Deficit Duo Simpson and Bowles: Trying to Save Us From Fiscal Ruin

BOSTON — Did you know that our government only has enough money to pay for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid? That we borrow to pay for education, defense, roads, research and absolutely everything else? That $920 billion of the money we borrow comes from China? That if we continued on autopilot, by 2020 we would [...]