Tag: rural healthcare
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The new veterans bill is full of good ideas. Disabled veterans are paying for all of them.
Let’s talk about veterans, because there’s a 554-page veterans bill moving through Congress right now, and most of what’s in it is good. The way it’s paid for is not – and they’re hoping you don’t read that far. It’s called the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act – H.R. 9237. It bundles more than…
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When they yell about “Medicare fraud,” count the money
Republicans rant about Medicare fraud. But the real money isn’t street-level crooks – it’s private Medicare Advantage plans overbilling taxpayers by more than a trillion over a decade. Here’s the trick, and who’s cashing in.
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Tennessee turned down $27 billion. Then it lost more hospitals than any state but Texas.
Let’s talk about Healthcare. Tennessee has lost sixteen rural hospitals. That’s more than any state but Texas. One of them was Haywood Park, in Brownsville. It closed in 2014. The building sat empty for eight years. For most of that time, if you had a heart attack in Haywood County, the closest ER was in…