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Report: 16 workers suspended at LA hospital
Sixteen employees of troubled Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital have been suspended because they had serious crimes in their past or had lied about their criminal history, officials said.
Probe finds dead doctors used in Medicare scams
Sellers of wheelchairs, drugs and other medical supplies collected as much as $93 million in fraudulent Medicare claims based on prescriptions from doctors who actually were dead, some for 10 years or more, a congressional investigation has found.
Government is the problem with health care
What can Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan teach us about how to deal with spiraling health care costs and millions of people having to go without health insurance coverage? A great deal actually if we will heed their wisdom on the proper role of government. Jefferson said "the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." Nearly two centuries later, Reagan said "government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." Nowhere is the wisdom of these two men more relevant than on health care.
Medicare rolls out bid system to save on equipment
Medicare expects to eventually save $1 billion a year by changing the way it pays for wheelchairs, oxygen tanks and other equipment, but suppliers say the new system could force thousands of businesses to close.
US contradicts itself over its own ID theft advice
The government doesn't have to look very far to see who's ignoring its advice on preventing identity theft.
Schumer: Medicare cards risk identity theft
Sen. Charles Schumer charged Wednesday the government is risking seniors' financial information by putting their full Social Security numbers on their Medicare cards. |
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