Cracking Down on Waste and Fraud
While discussing health insurance reform in St. Charles, Missouri today, President Obama announced new efforts to reign in waste and fraud in Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs. He explained that the administration plans to prevent wasted dollars through the use of payment recapture audits by giving auditors incentives to catch improper payments and payment [...]
Paul Ryan: The Roadmap Warrior
Paul Ryan's Roadmap for America's Future would drastically overhaul the American welfare state in a free-market direction. The Congressional Budget Office says it would solve the entitlements crisis through a series of changes to Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. The Roadmap also includes a fundamental tax reform — one that Ryan says, and the CBO [...]
Signs of intelligent life at the White House
President Obama has expressed his willingness to include a few Republican ideas in the impending incarnation of Obamacare. The four main ideas are:
* Engage medical professionals to conduct random undercover investigations of health care providers that receive reimbursements from Medicare, Medicaid, and other Federal programs to ferret out abuses of the system;
* [...]
What Didn’t Get Said at the Summit
About halfway through yesterday’s all-day healthcare
summit, Democratic Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina
told another of the many insurance company horror stories that
peppered the proceedings:
I was talking to a man recently who had undergone a
transplant. And when he was done, [...]
A Productive Day & Another Step Towards Putting Americans in Charge of Their Health Care
Ed. Note: Watch video of the meeting in our section on the President’s proposal.
Today’s bipartisan health care meeting offered something you rarely see in Washington: an open, honest, productive discussion between the political parties. Leaders from across the political spectrum gathered at Blair House to exchange thoughts about an issue that touches all of us: rising [...]
AP Fact Checks SOTUS - Finds Ten Whoppers
The AP took a look at some of Obama’s claims and how they compare with the facts, and they found that our president was rather foot-loose and fancy-free with the truth.
Take for example his announcement of a freeze on government spending:
OBAMA: “Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years. Spending [...]
