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Fanny Pack Mixup Unravels Massive Medicare Fraud Scheme
Two secretaries in a doctor's office have pleaded guilty and a pharmacy owner faces charges in a scam that Medicare allowed to thrive for more than two years.
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Expand Medicare to Serve all Veterans
Medicare is approaching its 50th anniversary as one of the most durable, successful and popular federal programs ever created. Do our veterans deserve any less?
Among Doctors With Unusual Billing Patterns, Disciplinary Actions Common
Media reports have uncovered doctors who only bill for the most complicated and high-priced office visits, and ambulance companies in New Jersey who ferry patients to and from dialysis …
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Fight for Health Care Justice Moves to States
Advocates of Medicare for All are developing state campaigns to win health care that eliminates insurance companies and covers everyone.
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Medicare Overpays Billions for Office Visits, Patient Evaluations
The findings by the inspector general of the US Department of Health and Human Services complement a recent review that found many doctors bill for services very differently than …
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The GOP Death Panel
Republicans said once Obamacare was passed, government officials would get to ration health care, and as a result, have control over the life and death of millions of Americans.
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The Conservative Death Panel
Millions of Americans are unable to afford life-saving health care, because Republicans would rather play politics than protect people's lives.
Of Patients and Prices
On the threshold of entering medical practice, A.W. Gaffney contemplates becoming unavoidably entangled in the health care business and its inevitable conflicts - as currently financed - with best …
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With Hippocratic Oath, Doctors Pledge Allegiance To Patients, Not Profits
It's pretty unusual for two-thirds of a group of doctors to agree on something as controversial as a single-payer health care system.
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Medicare for All
With government already providing health care for a third of the population, why not make it Medicare for all? This should be a battle cry for progressives, says sociologist …