Your tax dollars at work

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[tech2101]

POS should go to jail for fraud. What is sad is that he is not an isolated case.

I wish I could upload a paper that one of my classmates just wrote. A second year graduate student who writes like a high school junior. It is rampant in our country now. Our education system is broke and Texas leads the way. It is so sad.

 

[SparrowHawk]

POS should go to jail for fraud. What is sad is that he is not an isolated case.

I wish I could upload a paper that one of my classmates just wrote. A second year graduate student who writes like a high school junior. It is rampant in our country now. Our education system is broke and Texas leads the way. It is so sad.

TX is actually high middle of the pack which doesn't change your basic point. Rather it magnifies your basic contention. What I do find interesting is that the decline in quality began right about the same time as the creation of the US Department of Education. Not arguing cause and effect but I'd really like some think tank do some research along that avenue

 

[Spock]

Another example of your tax dollars at work. Scroll down and read Larry's comment. Hits the nail on the head. If this was happening in the private sector, these folks would only be getting 2 weeks of unemployment. Furlough, let's see. Did I get back pay during the pilot's strike at NW in 1998, I was furloughed for 2 weeks? :blink:


http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/aviation/184927-faa-workers-to-get-back-pay-for-furloughs

 

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Quarter-Billion Taxpayer Dollars Spent on Penis Pumps

According to data collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare has spent more than $240 million of taxpayer money on penis pumps for elderly men over the past decade, and will surpass a quarter of a billion dollars this year for costs since 2001.

The cost to taxpayers for the pumps more than quadrupled during that period, from a low of $11 million in 2001 to a high of more than $47 million in 2010. And these represent only the costs for external devices, technically classified as “Male Vacuum Erection Systems,” not implantable devices or oral drugs such as Viagra.

Easy to Qualify

In order to obtain a pump, according to CMS’s Local Coverage Determination (LCD) revised in October this year, the “patient’s medical record must contain sufficient documentation of the patient’s medical condition to substantiate the necessity for the type and quantity of items ordered,” noting erectile dysfunction (ED) can “commonly occur in men in the Medicare age group.”

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