‘Really devastating’: How vulnerable Jews will be affected by Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful, Bill’
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Fast Forward Medicaid ‘Amnesty’ Program Aimed At Lakewood Fraudsters
A program that will allow residents of New Jersey’s Ocean County who fraudulantly obtained state Medicaid benefits to avoid criminal prosecution begins Tuesday, NJ.com reported. The program, offered by the NJ State Comptroller, comes after 26 people were arrested in FBI raids in June for underreporting their incomes to get more than $2 million in…
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News Bronxwood Old-Age Home Faces Crippling Medicaid Ban
New York regulators are proposing to bar from the Medicaid program a Bronx old-age home that was the subject of a January investigative report in the Forward. Bronxwood Home for the Aged, which sends a substantial portion of its revenue to ultra-Orthodox charities, could soon be required to pay $6.9 million in restitution to New…
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Opinion Obamacare Adds 9 Million Newly Insured: Study
Last minute Obamacare signup, Miami, March 31 / Getty Images About 9.3 million more Americans had health insurance in late March 2014 than in September 2013, according to a survey released Tuesday by the RAND Corporation, the respected centrist think tank. Nearly all the new enrollments are a direct result of Obamacare. As a result,…
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Life The Real Glitch in Obamacare
The media is in an absolute tizzy over the website glitches in Obamacare. In fact, I keep getting breaking news emails with updates on the State of the Glitches (this isn’t an exaggeration). I admit: the Obama administration clearly messed up, big time, in their tech firm oversight. And it’s an undeniable concern that all…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Dentist Gets 3 Years in Prison for Homeless Medicaid Scam
A Brooklyn dentist was sentenced to one to 3 years in prison for using bogus homeless “patients” to defraud Medicaid. Lawrence J. Bruckner, 63, was convicted of defrauding the Medicaid program by paying people $25-$30 to solicit homeless Medicaid patients and billing taxpayers under his son’s name, for services never provided, a statement put out…
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Opinion Can States Nullify Fed Law on Health? How ‘bout Pot?
Florida’s Tea Party-backed Gov. Rick Scott announced that he will refuse to implement the Affordable Healthcare Act, despite President Barack Obama’s reelection. Refusing to set up a state exchange doesn’t necessarily matter that much, since the law empowers the federal government to set up an exchange for states that fail to do so on their…
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