By Roslyn Layton, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Strand Consult and Deborah Collier, Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs, Citizens Against Government Waste The United States is currently operating under a fragmented system of privacy regulations because Congress has not yet enacted a national framework to regulate consumer data privacy and security. States have sought […]
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Over the weekend, Astronauts were launched from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade.
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House Ways and Means Committee Boosting Use of Health Savings Accounts On July 11 and July 12, the House Ways and Means Committee marked up and passed out of committee 11 bills that will expand the use and availability of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) for all Americans. The bills considered were: H.R. 6301, “To amend […]
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Doctor Tom Price (R-Georgia) to be the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in his administration. This is an excellent choice. Representative Price has been a leader in fighting the misnamed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, since it first appeared […]
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently exposed vulnerabilities that end up costing taxpayers hundreds of billions in wasteful spending due to erroneous and sloppy billing, and outright fraud. The OIG’s October 7, 2016 report documented that even though The Medicare Access and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization […]
Yesterday, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) finally received an answer from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics regarding an ethics complaint that we, and nine other signatories, submitted to them more than a year ago. The complaint, submitted on June 25, 2015, requested that the Senate Select Committee on Ethics investigate the senators and/or […]
So this is Sen. Manchin’s (D-West Virginia) solution to the demise of the coal mining industry? Let’s review: This administration, run by one of Manchin’s own party and enthusiasctially supported by other prominent Democrats like VP Joe Biden and presidential hopeful and former NY Senator Hillary Clinton, attacked and killed a whole industry with complete disregard […]
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has written before about problems with the risk insurance sharing programs found in the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Under Obamacare, the risk-sharing programs, often called “the three Rs,” are risk adjustment, reinsurance, and risk corridors. Because of Obamacare’s restrictive mandates and regulations, plus the uncertainty of who […]
