Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

There were 107,581,000 people enrolled in government health insurance plans in the United States in 2013, the year before the Affordable Care Act was fully implemented. (iStock Photo)

107,581,000 already in government health plans

Terence Jeffrey · September 24, 2014 2:26 pm

TV reporter drops a ‘F–k it, I quit’ during live newscast

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TV reporter drops a ‘F–k it, I quit’ during live newscast

Chris Deaton · September 22, 2014 3:59 pm

Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., has held firm against expanding Medicaid in Louisiana. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Jindal says hospitals are shortsighted on Medicaid expansion

Philip Klein · September 22, 2014 9:00 am

Three Florida women will serve lengthy prison terms and make more than $2.4 million in restitution for their participation in a $20 million scheme to defraud Medicare. (iStock Photo)

Three Florida women get slammer for Medicare fraud

Mark Tapscott · September 19, 2014 6:00 pm

No Medicaid action in special Va. session

No Medicaid action in special Va. session

Alan Suderman · September 18, 2014 11:08 pm

Grimes’ grandmother stars in new ad

Grimes’ grandmother stars in new ad

Kelly Cohen · September 18, 2014 2:35 pm

In its annual report on "Income and Poverty in the United States," the Census Bureau described real median household income as stagnating for two years after declining for two. (iStock Photo)

Census: Real household income peaked in 20th century

Terence Jeffrey · September 17, 2014 8:17 pm

One reason healthcare costs continue to spiral upward despite Obamacare may have something to do with the federal government's left hand not knowing how much its right hand is paying for certain drugs. (iStock Photo)

Medicare’s right hand doesn’t know what its left hand pays for cancer drugs

Mark Tapscott · September 17, 2014 9:00 am

Snyder touts expanded Medicaid in re-election bid

David Eggert · September 17, 2014 1:17 am

When the Department of Health and Human Services approved a proposal allowing Arkansas to experiment with a âprivate optionâ for expanding Medicaid through President Obamaâs healthcare law, it was viewed as a possible model for other states. But a recent report by the Government Accountability Office could change this thinking. (iStock Image)

GAO report casts doubt on Arkansas as a role model

Philip Klein · September 15, 2014 9:00 am

Deficit hawks face a serious problem in advancing their message: Declining deficits and debt. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images)

Fiscal hawks’ problem: Shrinking debt

Joseph Lawler · September 15, 2014 9:00 am

Two doctors at the Sleep Medicine Center in Florida submitted claims for studies that patients either didn't need or never received. (iStock)

Clinic gets 8-year timeout for fraud

Sarah Bedford · September 11, 2014 5:42 pm