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Healthcare system wastes up to $800 billion a year - Yahoo! News »
Posted by: mesodude 1 month, 1 week ago in News
The U.S. healthcare system is just as wasteful as President Barack Obama says it is, and proposed reforms could be paid for by fixing ...
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Impact of Stimulus Will Level off Next Year »
Posted by: gunnyreef 1 month, 1 week ago in News
The government's economic stimulus spending has already had its biggest impact and probably won't contribute to significant growth next year, a top White ...
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More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted »
Posted by: gunnyreef 2 weeks, 1 day ago in News
More than 98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of it on questionable claims for tax credits and Medicare benefits ...
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Congress Is Ready To Vote On Healthcare Even Though They Do Not Know The True Cost »
Posted by: gunnyreef 4 weeks ago in News
Medicare's chief actuary told The Hill that it is unclear if he will have a cost estimate in time. before a scheduled vote this ...
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GAO Says More Than 50,000 Jobs From Stimulus Projects That Have Spent No Money - ABC News »
Posted by: gunnyreef 2 weeks, 1 day ago in News
Government Accountability or GAO report finds more than 50,000 jobs 'saved or created' come from stimulus projects that report spending no money yet.
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Tax Havens: The Hidden Hand in the Financial Crisis »
Posted by: sodakfritz 11 months ago in Political News
The financial crisis seems as if it emerged from nowhere and struck as hard and fast as lightning. How did so many financial institutions crumble ...
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Harry Reid Suggests Health Care to Cost $2 Trillion »
Posted by: gunnyreef 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
"He talked about CBO saying that there would be $54 billion saved each year if we put caps on medical malpractice and put some restrictions ...
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Medicare Fraud: A $60 Billion Crime - 60 Minutes - CBS News »
Posted by: k9kssr 1 month, 1 week ago in News
60 Minutes on CBS News: Medicare Fraud: A $60 Billion Crime - A.G. Holder Tells 60 Minutes More Oversight Is Needed; Scammer Explains How Easy ...
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Senate health care bill would reduce deficit, analysis finds | McClatchy »
Posted by: ybdogsct 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
The Senate Finance Committee's health care overhaul effort got a boost Wednesday when the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that it would cost $829 ...
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FactCheck.org: Obama's Health Care News Conference »
Posted by: Klarissa 4 months, 1 week ago in News
With the health care debate on Capitol Hill raging on, President Barack Obama held a prime-time news conference July 22 to make his pitch for ...
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Government May Seek More Auto Givebacks »
Posted by: FunnyBoyz 8 months, 1 week ago in News
(DETROIT) — The Obama administration is likely to demand deeper concessions from Chrysler LLC and General Motors Corp. in exchange for additional federal loans, a person ...
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US has US$134.4b left in stability fund »
Posted by: rafaeldenillo 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
WASHINGTON - The US Treasury has 134.6 billion US dollars remaining from a 700-billion-US-dollar emergency programme passed by Congress last year to stabilize the financial ...
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Obama unveils $75 billion mortgage relief plan »
Posted by: STONERS 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
President Barack Obama says his $75 billion plan to tackle "a crisis unlike any we've ever known" in home foreclosures is necessary to help ...
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CBO: Senate Bill Costs $849 Billion, Major Deficit Reducer »
Posted by: Tumultuous 2 weeks, 2 days ago in Political News
Democratic leadership has distributed figures to reporters from a CBO analysis of Senate health care legislation. The numbers affirm what we reported this morning--that Majority ...
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USA/GALLUP POLL - 57% don't see stimulus working »
Posted by: pc25 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
By Brad Heath, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON — Six months after President Obama launched a $787 billion plan to right the nation's economy, a majority of ...Read (353) | Share | Discuss (67) | Read Full Story at usatoday.com
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