Around 110 million Americans are now on government welfare benefits This equates to more than one third of the country relying on handouts At least 51 million are using food stamps and 83 million are on Medicaid Analysts are… Read More ›
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Heart failure patients please go away, you are no longer welcome under the Affordable Care Act
Efforts to curb hospital readmissions take center stage Studies focus on identifying vulnerable patients, early follow up, medication and engagement WASHINGTON (March 29, 2014) — Strategies aimed at reducing the number of patients with heart failure and other cardiovascular conditions… Read More ›
Doctors Sue United Healthcare for Bad Faith
BROOKLYN (CN) – A 22,000-member physicians’ group sued United Healthcare Insurance, claiming the money-grubbing, multibillion-dollar insurance company is illegally terminating them from its Medicare network on Jan. 1 to cut its losses from reduced federal payments under the Affordable Care… Read More ›
Russian diplomats accused of $1.5m fraud in US – but immunity prevents arrests
The accused and a number of unnamed co-conspirators gamed the system to the tune of $1.5m, say US law enforcement officials Nikhil Kumar Friday, 6 December 2013 In November 2010, Nailya Babaeva, a Russian citizen in the US, allegedly… Read More ›
Boy, 7, born with rare cancer loses his insurance because of Obamacare…leaving his parents needing $50,000 to pay for life-saving chemotherapy
A Gainesville, Texas family is fighting for their cancer-stricken child’s life after he was removed from his insurance plan Ron and Krista Alford’s seven-year-old boy Hunter is in need of another round of chemotherapy costing $50,000 He has lost his… Read More ›
A Georgia hospital’s psychiatrist overprescribed narcotics to get sex from patients, and committed Medicaid fraud along the way, a former patient claims
Woman Claims Hospital Let Doc Run Wild By IULIA FILIP SAVANNAH, Ga. (CN) – A Georgia hospital’s psychiatrist overprescribed narcotics to get sex from patients, and committed Medicaid fraud along the way, a former patient claims in court. Amie… Read More ›
Feds Accuse Novartis of Kickback Drug Scheme
MANHATTAN (CN) – Novartis Pharmaceuticals cost Medicare and Medicaid tens of millions of dollars by paying kickbacks to pharmacies to switch transplant patients to one of its drugs instead of cheaper generics, federal prosecutors say. The United… Read More ›
US hospitals make more money when surgery goes wrong
17 Apr 2013 WASHINGTON (AFP) US hospitals face a disincentive to improve care because they make drastically more money when surgery goes wrong than when a patient is discharged with no complications, a study published Tuesday found. “We found clear evidence that… Read More ›
Antipsychotic Drugmakers Target Marketing Dollars at D.C. Medicaid Psychiatrists, Study Indicates: Prescribing Antipsychotics to non psychotic Children
ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) — The D.C. Department of Health (DOH) has released a study by George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services (SPHHS) indicating the high levels of marketing by antipsychotic drug manufacturers to Medicaid psychiatrists… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 