Federal Initiative Combats Medicare and Medicaid Fraud
NOVEMBER 1, 1999 VOLUME 7, NUMBER 18 Two programs—Medicare and Medicaid—provide the majority of acute medical and long-term nursing care for America’s senior citizens. In fact, those two programs provide over one third of all medical care for Americans of all ages. With the total cost of those two programs approaching $400 billion per year, […]
Bipartisan Commission Fails To Propose Medicare Reforms
MAY 17, 1999 VOLUME 6, NUMBER 46 The National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare sounded like a good idea. Seventeen Commission members met for the first time in March of last year, and were scheduled to make a truly bipartisan recommendation on how to “save” the Medicare program by March of this year. […]
Congressional Report Criticizes Monitoring Of Nursing Homes
MARCH 29, 1999 VOLUME 6, NUMBER 39 There are over 17,000 nursing homes in the United States, housing more than 1.6 million residents. The federal government will contribute $39 billion to the care of those nursing home residents in 1999. Recently, the U.S. Congress’ General Accounting Office (the GAO) was asked by five Democratic members […]