Category: Federal
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Veterans disability claims languish while billions are wasted on records system upgrade
By Hannah Winston
News21
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense spent at least $1.3 billion during the last four years trying unsuccessfully to develop a single electronic health-records system between the two departments — leaving veterans’ disability claims to continue piling up in paper files across the country, a News21 investigation shows. -
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ObamaCare oversight: Budget squeeze forces HHS watchdog to trim investigative targets
By Fred Schulte
Center for Public Integrity
Facing major budget and staff cuts, federal officials are scaling back several high-profile health care fraud and abuse investigations, including an audit of the state insurance exchanges that are set to open later this year as a key provision of the Affordable Care Act. -
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Nanotechnology: Harmful or benign?
By Sheila Kaplan
Investigative Reporting Workshop
Nanotechnology is a booming industry, with growth an any industry would envy. But reports from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), GAO, academic researchers and manufacturers reveal the downside of such rapid development: Nobody really knows if these wonder products are safe. -
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Farmworker advocates from Florida, elsewhere press EPA to update pesticide rules
By Ronnie Greene
Center for Public Integrity
Saying they are plagued by pesticides but protected by only a thin layer of government regulation, farmworkers and their advocates are pressing the Environmental Protection Agency to update rules that are two decades old, and, critics say, dangerously dated. -
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Medicare fraud outrunning enforcement efforts; failures to investigate and more cuts coming
By Fred Schulte
Center for Public Integrity
Citing massive budget and staff cuts, federal officials are set to scale back or drop a host of investigations into Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse — even though cracking down on government waste and cutting health care costs have been top priorities for the Obama administration. -
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Majority of Supreme Court justices are millionaires; Ginsburg, Breyer top list of wealthiest
By Reity O’Brien
Center for Public Integrity
At least five and perhaps as many as eight of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court are millionaires according to recently released financial disclosures, and only two hold any consumer debt.
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