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Commercial Aerospace Takes the Lead
Over the weekend, Astronauts were launched from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade.
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HSAs
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 […]
Tom Price is Right
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 […]
Medicare Making Improper Payments to Prisoners
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 […]
Nothing to See Here. Move Along.
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 […]
Deep Sixing Taxpayer Dollars with Miners’ Pension Bailout?
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 […]
The Taxpayers Before Insurers Act
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 […]
‘Obamacare Premiums are Lower than You Think’ … NOT!
On July 21, the Health Affairs blog published a study by the Brookings Institute, entitled, “Obamacare Premiums Are Lower Than You Think.” The study starts off stating, “Since the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) health insurance marketplaces first took effect in 2014, news story after story has focused on premium increases for certain plans, in certain […]