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  • If Keeping Health Care Costs Down is So Important--Why Did Obama Wait to Attack Waste ?

    11/18/2009 11:20:06 AM PST · by Shellybenoit · 3 replies · 230+ views
    CNN/The Lid ^ | 11/18/09 | The Lid
    After months of telling us that one of the ways he is going to fund the Health Care plans he is trying to shove down our throats, is via eliminating Medicare waste and fraud. Today, after ten months in office the White House has found some fraud. The federal government made $98 billion in improper payments in fiscal 2009, and President Obama will issue an executive order in coming days to combat the problem, his budget director announced Tuesday.
  • A troubling abundance of care, Despite efforts, state's sick don't live longer

    12/03/2007 8:01:11 PM PST · by Coleus · 21 replies · 105+ views
    star ledger ^ | December 02, 2007 | CAROL ANN CAMPBELL
    During the last two months of life, Dorothy Glas endured so many blood tests her thin arms turned black and blue. The 85-year-old woman submitted to probes of her abdomen. Radiologists scanned her brain, kidneys, thyroid and heart. A psychiatrist screened her for depression. "My mother told him, 'Of course I'm depressed! I'm dying. How can you be happy?'" said her daughter, Meredith Snedeker of Hamilton Square. Glas withered to 80 pounds from an intestinal infection and, after a fall, entered the hospital in July for the final time, complaining of dizziness and a cut foot. The medicine revved up...