http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/01/taking-the-temperature-of-the-medicaid-expansion-debate-bryan-king-wants-to-rid-his-system-of-waste Comments On: Taking the temperature of the Medicaid expansion debate: Bryan King wants to rid his system of waste by David Ramsey en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
There also aren't many jobs in those counties to the north, so mostly only those with what I call "money in the mail" can live there without having a job, along with the people that provide services and goods for those with money in the mail.

Everyone else has to go where the jobs are, near the cities.
Posted by rablib]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 23:34:14 -0600 Arkansas Times
Unfortunately, the current legislative cabal hasn't shown itself to be "christian" and those who show any religious indication seem more like Islamist fundamentalist Taliban members.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:30:41 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:20:51 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:08:30 -0600 Arkansas Times
I know you must be positively beaming that the Obama administration requested a $5.2 billion REDUCTION in the FY2013 Defense base budget, plus another $26.6 billion REDUCTION in OCO (Overseas Contingency Operations- can you say Afghanistan & Iraq?) for FY2013.

Unlike Dick Cheney and ReTHUGliconS, some of us believe that budget deficits do matter!

You're welcome.
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:49:59 -0600 Arkansas Times
With a couple of exceptions, the old confederacy doesn't come out looking good. It would be interesting to see a chart of the state's medicaid coverage. I would guess that the lower % states have more generous medicaid coverage and thus a healthier population.
Posted by the outlier]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:23:41 -0600 Arkansas Times
Now that would seem to be a place for Legislative Audit to look for a lot of fraud. Isn't her husband a doctor up that way?

DHS needs to look and see which doctors are responsible for the bulk of disability cases (there are always doctors who will write a note for the fee).

Either that or there must be a lot of documemnted woprkman's comp cases which is checkable.

When I taught school, there was a story about one kid in a family being told she wouldn't get any Christmas presents until she qualified for "crazy checks" like the rest of the kids in the family. Why are 22% or so of the state's students classified as special ed, most NOT based on a medical condition.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:22:10 -0600 Arkansas Times
The Washington Times noted this week that the 2012 improper payment rate for unemployment insurance benefits was 11.4 percent ($10.3 billion out of $90.2 billion), according to U.S. Department of Labor data.
http://www.cato.org/blog/103-billion-unemp…
Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:54:00 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:43:27 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:22:36 -0600 Arkansas Times
The percentages are lower in Pulaski than Stone also. It would appear there are fewer "takers" as a percentage of the population in our southern environs.
Posted by the outlier]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:16:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
9000 W/ disability of 24000 is 54%? (paraphrased)

The really telling stat is less than 2% speak another language.

speaking 2 languages is called bilingual
speaking 3 languages in called trilingual
speaking 10 languages is called genius
speaking 1 language is called American
Posted by Citizen1]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:10:42 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://disabilityplanningdata.com/site/cou…

46.5% of the county gets benefit from disability. Everywhere is like this pretty much, save the few "working" counties (Pulaski, Washington, etc.).
Posted by Mean Gene]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:08:23 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Mean Gene]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:04:52 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Mean Gene]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:02:45 -0600 Arkansas Times
Male 9,440 54.0% 24,540 48.3% 33,980 49.7% 1,167
Posted by Mean Gene]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:00:04 -0600 Arkansas Times
The is the biggest abuse of a strawman argument there is.

No matter if medicaid is expaneded or contracted, hunt out and stamp out waste.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:59:14 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:46:50 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Mean Gene]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:42:02 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://disabilityplanningdata.com/site/cou…
Posted by Mean Gene]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:39:38 -0600 Arkansas Times for legies. Only religion can do that to people, make them abandon ethics.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:35:21 -0600 Arkansas Times
All of these critters are perpetuating the most egregious frauds and utilizing Medicare to ignore or perpetuate fraud upon the people.

Just like they do with banksters and bond sharks.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:16:09 -0600 Arkansas Times
I don't think you can win a state-wide general, either.
Posted by Little Rocker]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:41:17 -0600 Arkansas Times