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may
19, 2008 medicaid money laundering
The wall Street Journal Review and outlook
Every politician moans that entitlement spending is out of
control, so it ought to be easy at least to stop blatant fraud
and abuse. Evidently not: Congress is currently resisting
an attempt to rein in even a Big Con that everyone acknowledges.
The scene of this crime is Medicaid, the open-ended program
that provides health coverage for about 59 million low-income
people, with the rolls expanding every year. States determine
eligibility and what services to cover, and the feds pick
up at least half the tab, though the effective "matching
rate" is as high as 83%. Now it turns out that states
have been goosing their financing arrangements to maximize
their federal payouts and dump more of their costs onto taxpayers
nationwide.
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may
13, 2008 Townhall.com
too "complex"?
Part I
By thomas Sowell
Some people think that the reason the public misunderstands
so many issues is that these issues are too "complex"
for most voters. But is that really so?
With all the commotion in the media and in politics about
the high price of gasoline, is there really some terribly
complex explanation?
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may
14, 2008 Townhall.com
too "complex"?
Part II
By thomas Sowell
Again, do not be surprised at seeing the same folks on both
lists.
Is it really too "complex" to figure out that taking
vast amounts of land off the market will make the price of
the remaining land far more expensive? Or that houses built
on very expensive land will be very expensive housing?
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April
21, 2008 Parade Magazine
Your Money: the looting of Medicare
A whopping $70 billion out of the estimated $400 billion
budgeted for Medicare in 2008 may disappear this year due
to fraud and mismanagement. The taxpayer-funded system to
cover health care for Americans aged 65 or older is projected
to lose that amount, which is equivalent to $233 for every
American.
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April 18, 2008 David Walker Comptroller General speaks of
potential bankruptcy of America
(CBS) Beginning next year, and for 20 years thereafter, 78
million Americans will become pensioners and medical dependents
of the U.S. taxpayer.
"The first baby boomer will reach 62 and be eligible
for early retirement of Social Security January 1, 2008. They'll
be eligible for Medicare just three years later. And when
those boomers start retiring in mass, then that will be a
tsunami of spending that could swamp our ship of state if
we don't get serious," Walker explains.
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April
8, 2008
IRAn starts installing new nuclear centrifuges
Breitbart.com
Iran on Tuesday said it had started work to install thousands
of new centrifuges to enrich uranium at its main nuclear plant,
angering world powers who fear Tehran wants to develop an
atomic weapon.
"Today, the phase for installing 6,000 new centrifuges
at the facility in Natanz has started," the state broadcasting
website quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying at
the atomic plant.
March
17, 2008
ANdrew's Season
Andrew Lawson is a popular senior at Norwell High
School who plays varsity basketball. He also has Down syndrome.
By Ann Silvio and Bill Greene, Globe staff.
March
12, 2008
U.S.
Department of Defense Reports to Congress: Measuring Stability
and Security in Iraq
March
10, 2008
Addressing Fiscal Sustainability and Fixing the Social Security
System:Two Challenges Facing the Nation (PDF Document)
The Honorable David M. Walker
Comptroller General of the United
States
AARP Board of Directors
Annual Public Policy Meeting
Washington, D.C.
February 14, 2008
March 4 2008: 5:57 AM EST
The
$34 trillion problem
Medicare is poised to wreak havoc on the economy. And our
presidential
candidates are avoiding the issue.
By Geoff Colvin, senior editor at large (Fortune Magazine)
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