Obama’s $320 Billion in Health Cuts Targets U.S. Drug Purchases

ShareThis Obama’s $ 320 Billion in Health Cuts Targets U.S. Drug Purchases –White House plan would also cut $ 248 billion from Medicare, $ 72 billion from Medicaid 19 Sep 2011 President Barack Obama’s deficit-trimming proposal would cut $ 320 billion from U.S. health programs in prescription drug and nursing home spending and by increasing [...]

Medicare Illegally Paid for Seniors’ Viagra, U.S. Audit Says

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The U.S. Medicare program improperly spent more than $3 million in 2007 and 2008 to buy Pfizer Inc. (PFE)’s Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs for senior citizens, government investigators said. The purchases violated a 2005 ban on covering the drugs under the U.S. health program for the elderly and disabled. Medicare administrators blamed the [...]