{"id":1166,"date":"2004-03-25T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T16:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/medicare-fraud\/"},"modified":"2006-02-27T18:54:26","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T01:54:26","slug":"medicare-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/medicare-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Medicare Official Cites Cost Warning\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A22178-2004Mar24.html?referrer=email\">Medicare Official Cites Cost Warning<\/a> By Amy Goldstein, Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>The Medicare program&#8217;s chief actuary told lawmakers yesterday <b>he gave analyses <i>last June<\/i> to the White House<\/b> and the president&#8217;s budget office &#8212; which were not shared with Congress &#8212; predicting that prescription drug benefits being drafted on Capitol Hill would cost about $150 billion more than President Bush said he wanted to spend. <\/p>\n<p>Richard S. Foster made the disclosure during his first appearance on Capitol Hill since he confirmed two weeks ago that <b>administration officials threatened to fire him if he directly provided lawmakers with his cost estimates on the changes to Medicare<\/b>, which were among Bush&#8217;s top domestic priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare Official Cites Cost Warning By Amy Goldstein, Washington Post The Medicare program&#8217;s chief actuary told lawmakers yesterday he gave analyses last June to the White House and the president&#8217;s budget office &#8212; which were not shared with Congress &#8212; predicting that prescription drug benefits being drafted on Capitol Hill would cost about $150 billion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/medicare-fraud\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medicare Fraud<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}