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(The Center Square) – The U.S. Treasury says the national debt is roughly $39 trillion, but a nonpartisan accounting group estimates that the true number is $170.3 trillion.
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(The Center Square) – The FBI made multiple arrests Thursday in Los Angeles County in connection with allegations over a total of $60 million in hospice-related Medicaid fraud.
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(The Center Square) – Seniors paid higher Medicare premiums in 2025 due to billions in overpayments to private insurers, a new congressional report shows.
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(The Center Square) – Rising hospital prices will face scrutiny on Wednesday as a U.S. House panel examines the drivers of health care costs across the country.
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(The Center Square) – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed a 0.09% advance rate for Medicare Advantage plans in 2027, a figure analysts say falls well short of expectations and projected medical cost inflation.
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(The Center Square) — Since 2020, fraudsters have scammed at least $36 billion and as much as $3 trillion in tax money from federal entitlement programs, dwarfing the amount federal prosecutors claim was stolen in Minnesota's federal food aid scandal known as Feeding Our Future, an investigation by The Center Square found.The Center Square reviewed all the statements about entitlement fraud cases issued by the U.S. Department of Justice from 2020 to last year, which did not include many of the cases prosecuted by U.S. Attorney's offices in the various districts and any state prosecutions.Public safety net programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid lost billions of dollars to scams each year, according to a review of 2,500 DOJ statements, press releases, and fact sheets. The amount ranged from $2.7 billion in 2022 to $14.5 billion in 2025. Â
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(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump and senior health administration officials touted the $50 billion set aside in the One Big Beautiful Bill for rural health care during a round table Friday, saying it will transform the care available to rural Americans.
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(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump called on Congress to enact his "Great Healthcare Plan," in a bid to lower drug prices and insurance premiums.Â
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(The Center Square) – Negotiated lower Medicare costs for 10 popular prescription drugs went into effect Thursday.Â
THE DALLES — Four women, one from The Dalles, are vying to be the Democratic challenger of Rep. Cliff Bentz for the District 2 Congressional seat, which only two Democrats and no women have ever held.
