November 06, 2017

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) called out the Center for Medicare Services (CMS) for not properly gauging the threat of opioid abuse by the elderly. More than 727,000 individuals in the Medicare Prescription Drug program are at risk of opioid addiction, according to some government measures, yet CMS estimated that the at-risk population was only a sliver of that, according to a GAO report released Monday, GAO blamed insufficient data collection at CMS for that massive gap in oversight. “Without expanding and enhancing its data collection…

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Republicans are attempting to hurriedly ram major tax reform through Congress. The House Ways and Means Committee started mark-up hearings on Monday, to advance a bill that would re-write the tax code. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) complained at the start of the process about the dearth of any public examination of the proposal in hearings before the influential Ways and Means Committee. Doggett also decried Trump’s refusal to disclose his own financial holdings–a move that would reveal how he personally stands to be impacted by…

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