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More People With PhDs Going on Food Stamps

Kevin Spak — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:21:48 CDT

Melissa Bruninga Matteau has a PhD in medieval history, and a job as an adjunct professor, but she's still relying on food stamps and Medicaid to get by. "I am not a welfare queen," she tells the Chronicle of Higher Education . But with take home pay of only $900 a...

Live in Utah? There's a 1 in 6 Chance You've Been Hacked

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:39:28 CDT

Almost 800,000 Utah residents—that's one in six people in the state—have been affected by a data breach exposing information including Social Security numbers, names, and dates of birth. Hackers broke into a Utah Department of Health computer server on March 30, and the breach was initially thought...

ObamaCare to Add $340B to Deficit: Study

Kevin Spak — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:41:47 CDT

The Affordable Care Act isn't going to reduce the deficit as the Congressional Budget Office claims; it's going to expand it by more than $340 billion, according to a new study by Charles Balhous, the GOP trustee for Medicare. Balhous argues that traditional budget math "double counts" $575 billion in...

Romney: 'I'm Not Concerned About the Very Poor'

Kevin Spak — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:07:50 CST

Mitt Romney delivered yet another grade-A attack ad sound bite today, saying he was "not concerned about the very poor." In an interview with Soledad O'Brien this morning on CNN , Romney said he was in the race because "I care about Americans. I'm not concerned about the very poor. We...

Dummy Firms Squeeze Millions From Medicare

Rob Quinn — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:42:54 CST

Fraudsters using complicated networks of ghost companies are sucking hundreds of millions of dollars out of Medicare every year and it's a bit like taking candy from a baby, a Reuters investigation finds. The probe—which officials say will likely lead to a criminal investigation of the firms involved—found...

Romney Taking Heat for Medicaid Comment

Kate Schwartz — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:45:05 CST

Mitt Romney learned what Medicaid is sometime around 2002, he told a Sioux City, Iowa, crowd today, an admission that Dems are latching on to as yet another sign that he's out of touch. "Medicaid, you wonder what Medicaid is, those that are not into all this government stuff," Romney...

On Way Out, Medicare Boss Bashes 'Extreme' Waste

Kevin Spak — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:07:41 CST

Between 20% and 30% of all US health care spending is pure “waste,” according to departing Medicare and Medicaid chief Donald Berwick. “Much is done that does not help patients at all, and many physicians know it,” Berwick said in an interview with the New York Times on Thursday, his...

Why Supreme Court's Look at ObamaCare Surprises

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:43:59 CST

That the Supreme Court decided to hear a challenge to ObamaCare's individual mandate is not too shocking. But, as Politico reports, a number of aspects of the court's decision are surprising—and historic. The court will hear 5.5 hours of oral arguments in March, which Politico calls "an unprecedented...

Obama's Next Hiring Move: $1B Health-Care Jobs Plan

Mark Russell — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:56:25 CST

With a deadlocked Congress still unable to launch any sort of jobs plan , the White House will announce today a $1 billion project for training and hiring health care workers, the latest in President Obama's "We Can't Wait" campaign, reports the Washington Post . The health care jobs plan will feature...