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Welfare Digest | California's Home Care Program Loses Billions to Fraud Every Year
3+ hour, 48+ min ago (888+ words) The Debt Dispatch Welfare Digest | California's Home Care Program Loses Billions to Fraud Every Year Links & Benefits Breakdowns Here are this week's links and benefits breakdowns: California's Home Care Program Loses Billions to Fraud Every Year. As Chris Rufo and…...
Debt Digest | Entitlement Reform is Pronatalist
1+ week, 2+ day ago (895+ words) The Debt Dispatch Debt Digest | Entitlement Reform is Pronatalist Links & Fiscal Facts Here are this week's reading links and fiscal facts: Retiree's share of federal spending is ten times that of children and young adults. A new Penn Wharton Budget…...
Debt Digest | Medicare's Fiscal Crisis is Getting Worse
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (845+ words) The Debt Dispatch Debt Digest | Medicare's Fiscal Crisis is Getting Worse Links & Fiscal Facts Here are this week's reading links and fiscal facts: CBO's new projections confirm Medicare's fiscal crisis is getting worse. The CBO's February 2026 Budget and Economic Outlook…...
How the Welfare State's Financing Structure Enables Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (912+ words) President Trump announced that he would wage a "war on fraud" during last night's State of the Union, with Vice President JD Vance leading a new task force to root out fraud in the federal government's welfare programs. Welfare fraud…...
We Must Combat Fraud But It Won't Come Close to Solving Our Fiscal Challenge
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (309+ words) This is a guest post by David M. Walker. There has been a significant amount of attention recently on the alleged amount of fraud in federal programs. This attention has increased given the recent revelations relating to Minnesota. While there should…...
Debt Digest | Medicare Advantage Stocks Tumble as Trump Administration Targets Overpayments
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (874+ words) The Debt Dispatch Debt Digest | Medicare Advantage Stocks Tumble as Trump Administration Targets Overpayments Links & Fiscal Facts Here are this week's reading links and fiscal facts: Medicare Advantage stocks tumble as Trump administration targets overpayments. Pia Singh and Annika Kim…...
Why We Can't Grow Our Way Out of the Medicare-Driven Debt Crisis
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (383+ words) What might explain this relationship? Economic growth drives innovation and longer lifespans'but under Medicare's open-ended design, those gains automatically translate into higher costs for taxpayers. As medical technology advances and Americans live longer, Medicare automatically pays for more treatments, more…...