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New Mexico Does Not Want to End Immigrant Licenses

  By jellybellyhoo | March 22, 2011 - 6:06 am |
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New Mexico has rejected a Republican-backed plan that would prohibit illegal aliens from getting driving licenses. The proposal would have made it illegal to get a license without a Social Security number.

SANTA FE, N.M. — The Senate has rejected a Republican-backed proposal to stop New Mexico from issuing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.

The Senate voted 24-17 Wednesday night against a proposal that would have ended the practice of granting licenses to foreign nationals without a Social Security number.

Sen. John Ryan, R-Albuquerque, said it’s a public safety risk to issue licenses to those living in this country illegally. But Democrats said the move was politically motivated and targeted Mexican immigrants.

Under a 2003 law, more than 80,000 driver’s licenses have gone to foreign nationals. The state says it doesn’t know how many of those went to illegal immigrants because it doesn’t ask the immigration status of… continue reading

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Government Focuses on Prevention to Curb Medicare Fraud

  By jellybellyhoo | March 17, 2011 - 8:11 pm |
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Right now, Medicare fraud costs the government and taxpayers billions of dollars. In order to reduce the occurrence of fraud, the government is stressing prevention practices.

(Reuters) – Healthcare programs are moving away from “pay and chase” and concentrating more on prevention in the battle against fraud that costs the government billions of dollars, U.S. officials told Congress on Wednesday.

Overseers of Medicare and Medicaid are concentrating on preventing “bad actors” from enrolling as service providers in the massive federal programs that provide healthcare to the elderly and poor, Peter Budetti of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services told the Senate Finance Committee.

“Our goal is to keep those individuals and companies that intend to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and (Children’s Health Insurance Program) out of these programs in the first place, not to pay fraudulent claims when they are submitted, and to remove such individuals and companies from our programs if they do get in,” Budetti said in testimony.

Historically the programs would pay claims and… continue reading

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Republicans Want Medicare Chief Out

  By jellybellyhoo | March 10, 2011 - 7:13 pm |
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Senate Republicans are asking President Obama to withdraw Dr. Donald Berwick as Medicare administrator. This is part of the Republicans’ effort to repeal the health care law by the President.

Republicans stymied in their efforts to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law are taking a new tack: going after the official in charge of carrying it out.

Forty-two Republican senators have written Obama asking him to withdraw the nomination of Dr. Donald Berwick as Medicare administrator. That job carries major responsibilities under the health care overhaul, like setting up new insurance markets.

Republicans would need only 40 votes to block Berwick’s confirmation, and the letter signals they have more than enough.

Berwick, a pediatrician, is a well-known medical innovator. But Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah says Berwick lacks experience in insurance regulation and his past statements praising the British health care system mark him… continue reading

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