By Matthew Boyle – The Daily Caller 11:06 AM 07/18/2011 ADVERTISEMENT Conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe released the first installment in a new video investigation Monday morning, this one focused on Medicaid fraud. The first video in the series shows government employees in Ohio assisting two men who have described themselves as Russian drug smugglers
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FACE THE NATION INTERVIEW – July 2011
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JULY 16, 2011 The HHS rule for state health markets will mean fewer choices. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: HHS, unsurprisingly, envisions the exchanges as 50 (or more) new regulatory agencies designed to let politics run health markets, while letting Washington give orders to the states. The word “require” appears 811 times in the 244-page rule
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JULY 13, 2011 Mitch McConnell isn’t selling out Republicans. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday he’s concluded that no deal to raise the debt ceiling in return for serious spending restraint is possible with President Obama, and who can blame him? We’ve never thought the debt ceiling was the best leverage for a showdown
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JULY 12, 2011 The savings from government funding cuts to graduate medical education aren’t worth the negative effect on patients. By HERBERT PARDES AND EDWARD D. MILLERDr. Pardes is president and CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Miller is dean and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine Seeking to reduce the federal budget, Democratic and Republican
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JULY 11, 2011 Relying on unelected bureaucrats, such as ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, to ratchet down Medicare price controls won’t control overutilization. By MERRILL MATTHEWS AND MARK LITOW Almost all discussions about Medicare reform ignore one key factor: Medicare utilization is roughly 50% higher than private health-insurance utilization, even after adjusting for age and
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July 10, 2011 By John C. Goodman John C. Goodman is president and founder of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a free-market think tank established in 1983. Goodman’s ideas on health policy can also be found at his own blog, where he provides daily analysis and lively discussion on a wide range of health
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NEWS & OBSERVER Sat, Jul 09, 2011 By Charles Krauthammer – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON Here we go again. An approaching crisis. A looming deadline. Nervous markets. And then, from the miasma of gridlock, rises our president, calling upon those unruly congressional children to quit squabbling, stop kicking the can down the road
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