Posted on March 3, 2008 by Alexa Moutevelis
This Associated Press article on Medicare auditing quotes CAGW:
Audits Sting Hospitals, Physicians
While the contractors are often described as overzealous, that’s a compliment as far as one watchdog group is concerned.
“A little zealotry is what were looking for on the part of the taxpayers,” said Leslie Paige, spokeswoman for Citizens Against Government Waste. “We think it’s [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2007 by Leslie Paige
The Washington Post reports that the scientist in charge of the UN agency responsible for tracking and funding AIDS programs worldwide, UNAIDS, is set to reveal that his agency has long been overestimating the size, scope, and course of the disease for many years! The Post reports that new, “revised” numbers will show that the spread of the disease has been slowing for awhile [...]
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Posted on November 19, 2007 by Leslie Paige
Each day brings more alarming news ($) related to counterfeit pharmaceuticals and problems with certifying the provenance of chemical compounds being used in phramaceuticals. Keep these kinds ($) of stories in mind whenever your member of Congress starts telling you what a great idea it is to allow the legal importation of drugs from outside of the U.S.
Ask those drug importation proponents how [...]
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Posted on November 16, 2007 by Libby Wright
Well, your pocketbooks are safe – for now. Everyone in Washington is leaving for the Thanksgiving holiday and it is fast becoming a virtual ghost town. One outstanding issue yet to be resolved is the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The first SCHIP bill was vetoed by the president Unable to [...]
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Posted on November 15, 2007 by Libby Wright
As I write, serious arm twisting is going on in Washington to get a veto-proof re-authorization of SCHIP, or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. SCHIP’s original purpose was to assist low-income families without health insurance, and whose income was too high to qualify for Medicaid, to get their children insured. Generally, families with incomes up [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2007 by Leslie Paige
President Bush has vetoed the larded up Labor/HHS Appropriations bill. Here is one of the reasons:
“This bill has too many earmarks. I set out clear goals for the Congress to reform the earmarking process. The Congress chose not to put earmarks in bill text, instead including nearly all in report language, and they did not reach [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2007 by Alexa Moutevelis
U.S. smoking rate stalled at 21 percent, CDC says
Nearly 21 percent of Americans smoke, a number that has been stalled since 2004, federal researchers reported on Thursday in a study they said means governments must spend more to persuade people to kick the habit.
More than 45 million Americans smoked in 2006, or 20.8 percent of [...]
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