Activist Susan Gellinger said she doesn't want to see the status quo continue propping up insurance companies because "that's not health care reform." Women's March Iowa organized the Des Moines rally Saturday outside the Statehouse, which featured several Iowa political leaders, such as state Sens. Saturday's rally also included discussions concerning mental health treatments. "We are incarcerating and using our prison system to incarcerate mentally ill people, and that has become the biggest mental treatment facility in the state," McCoy said. On July 28, 1965, U.S. lawmakers approved an amendment to the Social Security Act, creating Medicaid and Medicare; 52 years later, the Senate failed to pass legislation that would have repealed a portion of former President Barack Obama's signature health care law, which could have changed those two programs, even in its "skinny" form.
Florida health care admin charged in $1B Medicare fraud case
A Florida health care administrator accepted bribes in exchange for helping a nursing home owner accused of orchestrating a $1 billion Medicare and Medicaid fraud scheme keep his license, federal prosecutors said. Bertha Blanco, 66, faces federal criminal charges in a wide-ranging investigation that federal authorities are calling the nation's biggest health fraud case, The Miami Herald reported . Prosecutors said his health care network and other co-conspirators billed $1 billion for fraudulent services between 2009 and 2016. Esformes is accused of using his 20 nursing facilities to file false Medicare and Medicaid claims for services that were not necessary for 14,000 patients. Blanco, a 29-year veteran of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, is the first of its employees ever to be charged with taking bribes, the newspaper reported.collected by :Lucy William
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