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How the Welfare State’s Financing Structure Enables Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
1+ hour, 42+ min 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+ day, 1+ hour 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
3+ week, 2+ day ago (874+ words) Debt Digest | Medicare Advantage Stocks Tumble as Trump Administration Targets Overpayments'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…...
Why We Can’t Grow Our Way Out of the Medicare-Driven Debt Crisis
1+ mon, 3+ 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…...