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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), chairman of the Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management (FSO) Subcommittee for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), continued his efforts to reform the big-spending status quo with the release of a Summer 2019 edition of The Waste Report.
Once again, Dr. Paul's Waste Report turns the spotlight on just some of the ways the federal government spends the American people's hard-earned money, with this edition including stories of building up Tunisia's political system and the Pakistani film industry, supporting "green growth" in Peru, teaching English and IT skills at madrassas, studying frog mating calls, making improper payments, and more.
The biggest seem to be:
Converted an abandoned mental hospital into DHS HQ (GSA and DHS) .......... $2,120,040,355.35
Paid out billions from Medicare in improper payments (CMS) ....................... $48,000,000,000
[Editor's Comment: The full 15-page report is found in a Scribd display on the given link.]
(Score: 4, Touché) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Saturday September 07 2019, @01:42AM (1 child)
It only ranks as slightly better than choosing interventions based on the ongoing profitability of insurance companies, and treatments being rejected because they're not profitable enough even if they are better for an individual patient in a given situation.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday September 08 2019, @01:40PM
That's just foolish business practices and would be corrected by another company making a smart decision and offering coverage for the issue. Dead people don't pay premiums. If we're talking million dollar treatments though, not many people's lives are worth saving at that cost. They simply have never and will never contribute enough to society to ever return the value.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.