Medicare Paid $47 Billion In Suspect Claims, According To HHS
WASHINGTON — The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a ...
WASHINGTON — The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a ...
Huff TV | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff appeared on The Joy Behar Show Wednesday night to talk about religion in politics and the controversy surrounding Sarah Pal...
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
I was encouraged to "bring my useless or broken gold" to an acquaintance's home, where I could "sell it all and take home cash." This was a new one for me, I've never left a social gathering richer than when I came in.
David Jones | Posted 10.08.2009 | New York
We snicker about the blindness of Marie Antoinette before the outbreak of the revolution, but I'm starting to understand the very human wish to ignore what's painful and unpleasant.
Rohit Chopra | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
Here in America, could we better protect the environment, reduce crime, and increase school performance if the poor had fewer children? Maybe.
cnn.com | Mark Tutton for CNN | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
In the developing world millions of people struggle to operate machinery, read from a blackboard, or just see the world around them, because they don'...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business
I think I am. We earn a lot less salary-wise, but my child is in a great public school, we have great health care, live near free parks, museums, and the pollution level is down.
Journalism Boot Camp | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
In the Qatari capital of Doha, the desert has transformed into lush, luxury communities. It is part of a trend in social segregation unlike anywhere else in the world.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
Ray Hanania | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Although the Republicans and "Blue Dog" conservative Democrats claimed they oppose Obama's health care plan because it would increase the nation's debt, the real reason is driven by racism.
Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
The federal transportation bill working its way through Congress offers a terrific opportunity to invest specifically in urban infrastructure needs.
New York Times | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York
The last time welfare recipients in New York saw an increase in their basic cash allowance, Derek Jeter was in high school, a subway token cost $1.15 ...
Donnie Fowler | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
South Carolina's Governor Mark Sanford announced two great epiphanies today: why he should not resign (gosh, we thought he was going to) and why his fellow South Carolina Republicans would not cooperate with him the last few years (no, it's not why you think).
Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
A connection has been made. A connection clearly seen between a young generation here in the United States and a young generation of Iranians who have taken to the streets.
Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green
Let's ensure that history does not remember us just as "consumers" of the earth and its resources, but as people who take seriously the God-given mandate to "serve and preserve" the earth.
Waylon Lewis | Posted 06.30.2009 | Living
The nun behind Dead Man Walking, the best-selling book and movie offers a Christianity that's about mercy, compassion, forgiveness, humor. "It's all about waking up," Sister Helen says.
McClatchy | Frank Greve | Posted 06.19.2009 | Living
Indeed, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' latest survey of consumer expenditure found that the poorest fifth of America's households contributed an...
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living
Schools, airports and hospitals are all places where you have to eat what is served. These institutions serve unhealthy food that is filled with fat, sugar and salt.
Richard Walden | Posted 06.01.2009 | Entertainment
It is pornographic to continue the $5 billion 2008 election campaign just 5 months after we swore in a new President and new Congress.
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
After studying the Obama budget carefully, many of us who have been fighting poverty for years believe this is a moral document, with more commitments to struggling families than any budget in our lifetimes.
ZP Heller | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
We must invest in our own economic recovery and in fixing Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis.
The Economist | Posted 04.12.2009 | World
"POOR countries are innocent," says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Nigerian managing director of the World Bank. They did not contribute one jot to the glob...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business
Muhammad Yunus, the poor, and countries which we have always considered "underdeveloped" have a lot to teach us about sustainability!
Jim Wallis | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
My prediction is that many in the faith community, especially those on the front lines of serving the poor, will rally around the principles and priorities of this budget.
Adlai Wertman | Posted 03.29.2009 | Living
Is this a time, though, where we can apply a basic math rule -- two negatives equal a positive? Could a large group of unemployed actually be good for the charities?
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home