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New York's Medicaid program pays more than a million claims a day, feeding a $44.5 billion river of checks to radiologists and ambulance drivers, brain surgeons and orderlies, medical centers and corner pharmacies. Many who get those checks pocket more money than they deserve, and millions of taxpayer dollars are believed to be lost every day to theft and waste. Skip to next paragraph Andrea Mohin/The New York Times Falling Behind: Boxes of cases in the attorney general's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, where the size of the staff has failed to keep up with the program's growth. PROGRAM DISORDER High...

New York Medicaid Fraud May Reach Into Billions * E-Mail This * Printer-Friendly * Single-Page * Reprints By CLIFFORD J. LEVY and MICHAEL LUO Published: July 18, 2005 It was created 40 years ago to provide health care for the poorest New Yorkers, offering a lifeline to those who could not afford to have a baby or a heart attack. But in the decades since, New York State's Medicaid program has also become a $44.5 billion target for the unscrupulous and the opportunistic. Skip to next paragraph Andrea Mohin/The New York Times A barker lured customers to Dr. Dolly Rosen’s...

Today I declined to fill out an EOC/AA form asking for racial demographic information. My supervisor said that even though I declined that under New York State law, a race would be picked for me. The paper stated that this is suposed to be voluntary. It's supposed to ensure that the business is not discriminating and meeting it's affirmative action goals. How is it voluntary if they end up picking a race for you anyway? I think the supervisor is getting tired me because I ask too much questions but she said it's their policy but the state requires them...

ROCCO PARASCANDOLA and ANTHONY PARDO STAFF WRITERS June 29, 2005 Two tourists from Norway were robbed in Central Park by a knife-wielding man -- or so they told police before their story quickly unraveled Tuesday and they were arrested for filing a false report, police said. The "victims" reported to police late Monday night that they were near the East Side boathouse when the suspect confronted them at knifepoint. advertisement advertisement "Give me the camcorder or I'll kill you," the suspect supposedly said, grabbing it from one of the men, then taking from the duo a ring, a watch, a...

This petition is in response to the proposed New Zealand Black-Caps Tour of Zimbabwe later this year. Please sign your name to this petition if you feel the Black-Caps or any cricket playing nation should not tour Zimbabwe. This list will be forwarded to the ICC and the New Zealand Government. # Robert Mugabe, re-elected in March 2005, in a poll condemned internationally as corrupt, has cast his country into poverty and despair # New Zealand Cricket faces a US$2 million (NZ$2.8 million) fine from the International Cricket Council if it refuses to tour Zimbabwe for anything other than security...

I haven't seen him post in about three months and was wondering how he is doing with the cancer battle.

To see her now—hips framed by low-slung pants, navel shot through with a $500 belly ring—it strains the imagination to envision Lisa Marie Sohr, a resplendent Long Island hottie, as an obese woman. She moves with the insouciance of someone who has always been 120 pounds, except when she stands up, when she looks a bit as if she’s been fired from a slingshot. (“It’s like, whoa—I’m used to going for the big lunge.”) Yet Sohr can recall the day her weight became not just an unsupportable physical millstone but a metaphysical one: It was her 33rd birthday. The New...

I've frequented many illegal immigration threads, yet I've never participated in any serious activism. I'm not that political but I've had enough. I was driving down a main street and noticed a quite large ad for apartment renters in SPANISH ONLY. It really bothered me because I think it's discrimination as anyone who doesn't know spanish won't be able to read the sign. I wrote to the county EOC a very brief note asking what can be done. I do believe in property rights but with the history of racial red lining on Long Island that was as bad as...

Did anyone hear that freaking phone call on Mark?

I attend a running/walking club in Central Park every week. I just listened to a show by the club leader denouncing my christian faith as uncompassionate/not full of love. Not only is he agreeing with his guest, but adding on things like not having condoms in Africa is putting people at risk,etc. I wrote him a letter expressing my dismay about his beliefs in things like liberation theology,etc. and that won't be buying anything at his store/participating in his walking club. His guest is Matthew Fox who was excommunicated.

Today I did what I usually do... Well heck you guys know I'm plain obsessed with FR. I have been since I logged on two years ago, more than two years since I lurked for a month till I couldn't keep my mouth shut anymore. I've rarely gone for more than a week without posting except for one time where I had some personal problems that really needed tending to and I had myself zotted. I am a renaissance freeper. I discuss many different issues on this forum. Some people have asked me if I was South African because I...

First Sitrep - 15.00 hrs.Eddie Cross Bulawayo, 31st March 2005 I have been out since early morning - watching the poll after actually voting at a local school. We are also in touch with MDC structures across the country. At 15.00 hrs my read of the situation is as follows: - 1.There has been a nationwide effort to restrict MDC presence in the polling stations. Many different methods were used and we might yet see efforts made to expel them from the polling stations before vote verification and counting begins. This effort has by and large been overcome and my...

In 229 years, we’ve come from Nathan Hale’s immortal words—“I regret that I have but one life to give for my country”—to, “Terri Schiavo will be better off if we just remove the feeding tube.” After all, she’s in a persistent vegetative state, hooked up to a ventilator and in a veritable coma from which there is no return. She can’t speak. She can’t communicate in any way, shape or form. She is a merely a vegetable that is living by Michael Schiavo’s benevolence and medical technology. Right? Wrong. It’s time for Americans—liberals and especially, ‘the government shouldn’t be involved...

Ex-Rhodesian PM Smith taken ill in South Africa SMITH: Has become frail • Mugabe buries Mangwende • Ex-Minister Mangwende dies • Zvobgo's death a huge blow to Hungwe • Zvobgo: The President Zimbabwe never had • Zvobgo's reservations about hero's burial • Misihairabwi: 'It feels like his enemies have won' • Zvobgo dies • Zvobgo recovers, back in Parliament in weeks • Zvobgo admitted to SA hospital • Zanu PF charges Zvobgo • Zvobgo hits back at opponents By Staff Reporter Last updated: Tue Mar 08 2005 18:14:03 FORMER Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith has been hospitalised in a...

Bend over, reach down and grab your ankles. It isn’t a pretty picture, but that’s what will happen with Social Security under the jackboot. So wake up, liberals, get off your butts and call your congressman or congresswoman! We’ve got to fight the privatization of Social Security to the bitter end! We’ve got to rally our base. We must hit the streets and get online to defeat the misguided plan of President Bush. We’ve got to stand up to the party of Lincoln—now hijacked by thugs, known as conservatives—and tell them our seniors are far too important to slowly starve....

Liberals are fighting mad! We’ve had it up to here with President Bush, Karl Rove, Vice President Cheney and the Halliburton oligarchy! This has to stop here and now! The liberals of the world must unite against the fascism and tyranny that is ruining the country once known as America. There was once a chance for peace in the world, but Bill Clinton has faded into obscurity. Now, we must put up with this hick President from the Redneck State of Texas—a state that has executed more people than any other state since 1976. It appears they love to punish...

The 12 Steps We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings Made a list of...

Leo Terrell you need a shot of thorazine. You just made a bet with Jesse Lee Peterson that the republicans would never elect a black person as a major party leader. I would like you to know that your words have been recorded for posterity here at FR and we are watching!

Desmond Dutcher lives just below 24-year-old Robert Bonelli, Jr. It's a two-family home on Liberty Street in the hamlet of Glasco outside Saugerties. Late Sunday night, police searched the home and found a lot of material they said was part of Bonelli's "lurid fascination" with the 1999 Columbine High School shootings.

Bill Press you're an unmitigated a$$wipe for comparing the general to Hannibal Lecter. That general is a true patriot. You're best luck is that Sean gave you time tonight to show the world that you're a butthead. Oh yeah you're book is crap too.