Subject: Medicare

• A Little Bit Pregnant

  Whoever said you can't be a little bit pregnant never reckoned with the can-do spirit of the Bush administration. As the Washington Post reports: New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves -- and to be treated by the health care system -- as pre-pregnant, regardless of whether they plan to get pregnant anytime soon. Among other things, this means all women between first menstrual period and menopause should take folic acid supplements, refrain from

  May 17, 2006

• Speaking of congressional races ...

  Check out this little ray of sunshine from Bloomberg (the news service, not the mayor): Candidates Ignore $1.35 Trillion Minimum Tax `Bomb' By Ryan J. Donmoyer Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Congressional candidates this fall are furiously debating Iraq, Medicare and extending tax cuts. Most are staying quiet about an imminent legislative challenge: how to stop a tax increase that will hit more than 20 million households next year, some with incomes as low as $50,000. The rest is here.

  October 31, 2006

• Mea Culpa, We Fuck-Uppa

  There were two HUUUUGE mistakes in the virtual droolings below. First, in KEN CALVERT'S MOD SQUAD, we reported that OC Blog has always been behind state Senator John Campbell (R-Richy Richland) from the beginning of his quest for the 48th Congressional District seat. A close follower of Clockwork and OC Blog informed us that OC Blog first supported Assemblyman Dick Ackerman (R-Notso Welloffville), going so far as to brand Campbell as something of a Calvertesque Commie up until Ackerman dropped o

  November 21, 2005

• MoveOn vs. Rohrabacher

  This just in, from MoveOn.org: Rep. Rohrabacher Accepts $40,785.00 From Drug Companies; Puts Drug Company Profits Ahead of Seniors Huntington Beach MoveOn Members Urge Rep. Dana Rohrabacher to Cancel May 15th Medicare Sign-Up Deadline Constituents will hold "Caught Red-Handed Check Deliveries" outside Rep. Rohrabacher's office HUNTINGTON BEACH - On Thursday, May 11, residents of Huntington Beach and coastal cities will hold a "Caught Red-Handed Check Delivery" outside Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's

  May 10, 2006

• To Do Tonight 6/4

  Club Abstract, 9 p.m. house, trance and electro. Hogue Barmichael's 3950 Campus Dr. Newport Beach CA 92660 949-261-6270 DJ Josh, 9 p.m. Chill Kitsch Bar 891 Baker St., Ste. A10 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 714-546-8580 The Ethnic and Artistic Sources that Inspired the Spanish Colonial Architecture of Southern California, 7 p.m. For all y'all who've ever wondered about the colorful geometric tiles of Moorish inspiration that enhance so many buildings in southern California... Casa Romantica 415 Ave.

  June 4, 2008

• There's Something About Pacific Health

  Remember the wandering homeless patient we wrote about a few months back who had been shipped from an Orange County hospital to L.A.'s Skid Row and dumped there? Well such incidents have been the subject of a federal investigation initiated in 2006 after the LAPD began looking into reports of hospitals dumping homeless patients on the streets. The results of that investigation exploded yesterday with the federal raids of three hospitals and the arrest of a hospital CEO in Los Angeles for alle

  August 7, 2008

• Measure H: It Mightve Been Great

  November 9, 2000

• Orange Countys Real Bad Boy

  September 6, 2001

• Will The Feds Come After Tustin Hospitals Next?

  All the key swindlers in the homeless patient dumping scheme that sucked hundreds of thousands of dollars from Medicare and Medi-Cal programs in fradulent claims last year have been indicted -- except, that is, for the bad boys in Tustin who were also allegedly involved in the scheme. Last August a several months-long federal investigation culminated with the raids of three hospitals and the arrest of a hospital CEO in Los Angeles for alleged involvement a scheme that recruited homeless "patient

  January 30, 2009

• State Taxman Pops Buena Park Doctor and Wife for Alleged Fraud

   The state Franchise Tax Board (FTB) reports today that physician John S. Han, 61, and his wife Sonya Han, 55, were arrested on felony counts of Medicare fraud and filing fraudulent state income tax returns after a search of their Buena Park home. According to FTB special agents, Mr. Han, who owns John S. Han, M.D., Inc. and operates Pain Medical Center in Norwalk, billed Medicare for more than $10 million in services from 2001-05 but failed to report more than $6.2 million in i

  February 5, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] Special Dia de los Impuestos Edition

  April 10, 2008

• Letters

  Add in a completely substandard produce section and meat that I could find cheaper elsewhere, and you have the perfect storm of crap

  September 27, 2007

• To Your Corporate Health

  June 26, 2003

• Letters

  December 26, 2002

• Ragged Dick

  April 8, 2004

• Not Too Late for a War Crimes Tribunal

  February 7, 2002

• Nursing A Grudge

  May 22, 2003

• Queer As Punk

  June 27, 2002

• (Mostly) Fatherless Children

  September 14, 2006

• Letters

  July 20, 2006

• Immigration? We've Got Bigger Problems

  April 13, 2006

• Un-Made in Mexico

  February 2, 2006

• Mr. Rooney Goes to UCI

  December 29, 2005

• A Clockwork Orange

  October 20, 2005

• Dr. K KOd

  July 21, 2005

• O, America . . .

  Reflections on Election Day, 2004

  November 4, 2004

• Credit Where Credit is Due

  October 28, 2004

• Cleveland Rocked

  October 14, 2004

• Burning Bush: The Issue

  A year in Dubya-dumping by his conservative critics . . . and Howard Stern

  October 7, 2004

• 59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

  Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  October 7, 2004

• No, You Shut Up

  Artists are Americans, too, You Jackasses

  August 26, 2004

• Burning Bush

  July 1, 2004

• The presidents conservative critics

  June 17, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 22, 2004

• Letters

  November 6, 2003

• Million-Dollar Munchikins

  October 16, 2003

• Keep Puffing

  March 6, 2003

• It's the Economy, Stupid

  August 8, 2002

• Remembering the Future of Orange Countys Great Park

  February 28, 2002

• Bad Company

  January 24, 2002

• Lo Siento

  December 13, 2001

• War!!!

  October 4, 2001

• Dumbbell

  March 15, 2001

• Hey! We're all Liberals Now!

  November 16, 2000

• Counter Culture

  September 30, 1999

• Singled Out

  September 11, 1997

• Rally Tonight Opposes Obama and Town-Hall Criers in Health-Care Debate

  All for one and one for OC Healthcare for All.​OC Healthcare for All and other groups peeved about the current health-care debate march to the Ronald Reagan Federal Building in downtown Santa Ana tonight and rally in support of the following message:Both sides--the ones personified by President Barack Obama and town-hall protesters--are dead wrong about how to cure our ailing health-care system.

  September 14, 2009

• Santa Ana-Based Street Gang Implicated in $25 Million Medicare Fraud Cases

  ​A Long Beach man and a Santa Ana street gang have been implicated in an alleged Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in approximately $25 million in fraudulent bills to the Medicare program, various federal authorities announced this morning. In all, 18 defendants, most of whom reside in the Los Angeles area, have been charged in five indictments for allegedly participating in the fraud schemes, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, Act

  October 21, 2009

• Western Medical Center's Owners Sued Their Doctors to Muzzle Them, But One Wouldn't Shut Up

  November 12, 2009