A pharmacy run out of this storefront near Miami billed a federal agency for
$776,298--in just nine days. There were no real employees. There were no real patients. There were no real prescriptions. How medical fraud has become an untreated epidemic.READ»
Governors are in a conundrum. How can their states toe the line on spending for vital health care services without killing the health care job creation engine? READ»
Swatch wants to clean Costco's clock over U.S. copyright
infringement. Medical schools want the IRS to categorize residents as
students to skirt Social Security and Medicare taxes. In other words:
business as usual for this year's ...READ»
This post is not a partisan polemic intended to attack those who hold different views than I. Rather, it is an honest attempt to understand the reasoning behind those who have divergent beliefs about the anti-corporate and anti-government anger that is currently being expressed so viscerally by so many people in America. I hope that this post can act as a springboard for a substantial (and respectful) conversation about these forces that are growing in our society.READ»
In the news today, as I write this, a tsunami warning was issued all over the Pacific and especially Hawaii, to the deadly earthquake in Chile early this morning.
I don't mean to minimize the horror of these catastrophes, but ...READ»
Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 30, 1965, Medicare began as a social insurance program for American citizens age 65 or older. Today, the expanded Medicare program also covers citizens who may not be 65 years old ...READ»
If seniors banded together to make a difference in their health care costs, silver power would be a new word for the future of health care in America.
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We spent Thanksgiving with my cousin and her husband, who is moving into the advanced stages of Alzheimer's. Over three days, I watched in awe as she patiently and lovingly cared for her partner of 23 years even though most of ...READ»
If all goes well in Washington, it looks like seniors getting social security will get a check for $250 next year instead of a cost of living increase.
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