Sep
1
2010
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 [...]
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Jul
17
2010
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 [...]
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Jul
12
2010
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 [...]
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