by Jane Richey | Feb 21, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) ranked Medicare on it’s list of high financial risks facing government agencies, making an estimate of $44 billion in improper payments made by the program in 2012. $44 billion is roughly the same amount of cuts the sequester...
by Jane Richey | Jan 31, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) made $64.2 billion in “improper payments” in fiscal 2012, according to the federal website PaymentAccuracy. The the bulk of those improper payments were made by Medicare and Medicaid, the government health-care...