‘Walking dead’: Watchdog sounds alarm on Medicaid payments for deceased enrollees
Daily Caller News Foundation – A new report from the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) exposes the widespread problem of deceased individuals on Medicaid rolls and the taxpayer dollars wasted year after year as a result.
The report, obtained first by the Daily Caller News Foundation, warns that billions of taxpayer dollars may be wasted each year on people who no longer qualify for Medicaid benefits or have died. It calls for common-sense reforms — such as regular cross-checks of state and federal data — which the group says will restore integrity to the program. Continue reading
Jonathan Turley – “It’s a bold statement, isn’t it?” Those words of Chicago City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin hardly capture the moment. Yesterday, Conyears-Ervin declared that her office would no longer invest in U.S. Treasury bonds to protest what she called the “authoritarian regime” of President Donald Trump. It is more bonkers than bold. It makes about as much sense as President Trump saying that he will not eat deep-dish pizza to protest Chicago.
Milli Sands – George Orwell’s telescreen is no longer “suspend your disbelief”-level fiction. And the foot meting out the punishment may soon be the state’s, delivering your 
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