Bad Payments Rise in High Risk Federal Programs
Error-ridden programs paid out $125 billion in improper payments last year.
Error-ridden programs paid out $125 billion in improper payments last year.
A new book offers a powerful dissection of contemporary end-of-life care, yet misses the underlying problem.
The people expected to pay for Social Security and Medicare can't afford it.
Unless we want to drown future generations in a sea of red ink, we need to have a serious conversation about the future of entitlements.
The administration wants to save billions by overhauling Medicare's payment incentives. The evidence shows how hard this is to do.
Marilyn Tavenner, one of the key officials behind Obamacare's botched federal exchange, is leaving her post.
Medicare may be making mistakes 20% of the time, school lunch programs 15%, and the Earned Income Tax Credit 25%.
These entitlement programs take money from the young and poor and give to the old and rich.
The conveyer belt to insolvency slows down just a bit.
Antidepressants, antipsychotics and drugs used to help with organ transplants
Web problems can be fixed, Obamacare cannot.
Say reimbursement rate was miscalculated
Try to force it in states where governors are resistant
As health care gets more bureaucratic, will doctors go Galt?
Charged with performing unnecessary procedures to bill to Medicare and Medicaid
Blame the "sequester" of course, despite increased D.C. spending
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