Health insurance eats up 9 percent of Pentagon’s total budget

By Laurel Adams

The cost of health insurance for active duty and retired military personnel has increased from $19 billion in 2001 to $49 billion in 2010. T

Related to this story

Army health building upgrade canceled after questions raised about cost estimates

By Julie Vorman

Health care options for young, healthy and broke

By The Associated Press

For 12-Year-Old without an arm, insurance has run out

By Danielle Ivory

ANALYSIS: A new affront group

By Wendell Potter

Daily Watchdog: Deteriorating conditions in Central America pose security threat

By Laurel Adams

Related to this story

Doctors less welcoming of children on Medicaid, GAO finds

By Ben Wieder

Who will receive government checks, and who will not, if the government defaults?

By Alexandra Duszak

GOP deficit-cutters eye health IT stimulus funds as Obama’s point man leaves

By Kimberly Leonard

About the 'Cracking the Codes' project

By The Center for Public Integrity

Insurance brokers seek health reform change to safeguard profits

By Josh Israel

Insurance brokers seek change in health reform provision to protect profits

Related to this story

Ask Wendell: How to find health insurance

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: Health care's community-based beginnings

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: The 'clear obscurity' of the health insurance industry

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: Translating the insurance industry's feel-good rhetoric

By Wendell Potter

Advertisement

Senator seeks deadline for Medicare to prevent prescription drug fraud

By Joe Eaton

Taxpayer-funded Medicare recently spent more than $1 billion on drug prescriptions missing a valid doctor identification number and a Senate

Related to this story

Prescription for power

By M. Asif Ismail

OPINION: Rep. Ryan's budget plan is a "Path to the Poorhouse"

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: Big Pharma's stranglehold on Washington

By Wendell Potter

Family docs not ready to leave AMA group with influence over Medicare pay

By Joe Eaton

Congressman takes swipe at program to reduce Medicare fraud

By Naseem Miller and Joe Eaton

As health reform bills consume Congress, a battle over a program designed to help cut soaring rates of Medicare overpayment and fraud is pla

Related to this story

OPINION: Rep. Ryan's budget plan is a "Path to the Poorhouse"

By Wendell Potter

FACT CHECK: Democrats' repeat ‘end Medicare’ cry is wrong, again

By FactCheck.Org

Study: Medicare contractors vulnerable to conflict

By The Associated Press

Medicare fraud out of control

By The Center for Public Integrity

Chamber of Commerce flowchart linked to former insurance industry lobbyist

By Joe Eaton

Free-market cheerleaders have long relied on the flowchart to push their notion that government intervention makes a hash of things. Republi

Related to this story

A single-payer plan for Vermont

By Wendell Potter

FACT CHECK: Will health care law raise insurance premiums?

By FactCheck.Org

ANALYSIS: 'ObamaCare' label is sticking

By Wendell Potter

Mass. health law may bode well for federal law

By The Associated Press

Advertisement

Grassley, Wyden introduce bill to make Medicare data public

By Joe Eaton

New bill on Medicare data responds to Center reporting

Related to this story

Have you seen a new doctor since enrolling in Medicare?

Michael Jackson's doctor, other convicted felons, still listed as Medicare providers

By Joe Eaton

For federal deficit reduction commission, Medicare changes may be easier said than done

By Gordon Witkin

After banned from Medicare, podiatrist bills $1M for fake care, including double-amputee's feet

By Ben Wieder

Senators Grassley, Wyden push to make Medicare billing data public

By Joe Eaton and David Donald

Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa introduced a bill today that would make available to the public data on Medicare billing by doctors

Related to this story

IMPACT: Bills to open Medicare data pick up another supporter in Senate

By Joe Eaton

Medicare fraud included phantom services, equipment

By Laurel Adams

Senators want more aggressive action to curb rampant Medicare fraud

By Joe Eaton

ANALYSIS: Awards for health care reform wimpery and obfuscation

By Wendell Potter

Health care fraud cases drop despite bigger budget

By Joe Eaton

The official line at the Department of Justice is that investigators are battling Medicare and Medicaid fraud like never before. But the mos

Related to this story

Medicaid to get tougher on drug makers’ price reporting

By Julie Vorman

Grassley, Wyden introduce bill to make Medicare data public

By Joe Eaton

Medicare fraud out of control

By The Center for Public Integrity

Analysis — Death panels, fact and fiction

By Wendell Potter

Excerpts from this story referencing "Southern California":

"… s, with high profile busts and strike teams operating in Southern Florida, Southern California, Detroit, Brooklyn, and other cities. But Grassley, citing DOJ data, found …"

Medicare patients received expired, terminated drugs

By Joe Eaton

Medicare patients in 2006-07 likely received more than $112 million worth of expired prescription drugs or drugs that have been pulled from

Related to this story

Analysis — Are seniors paying attention to Paul Ryan's plan for Medicare?

By Wendell Potter

Report faults Medicare controls on widely abused drugs

By Joe Eaton

OPINION: Guess who would benefit from privatizing Medicare?

By Wendell Potter

GAO: Almost a tenth of Medicare spending was improper

By Laurel Adams

Pages