On the recordAugust 2, 2009
Medicare and Medicaid paid out more than $312 million last year for quality care bonuses to nursing homes that provided below-average care.
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Senator Coburn highlights wasteful spending in Medicare and Medicaid.
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We have something we call 'maintenance of effort' that we use in other programs, educational programs, when there is Federal money, we say to States, 'You have to maintain effort.'
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I just do not think it works. And I want to be humane. We have a moral obligation to the least of these, folks who do not have a place to live, but there has got to be a better way to do this.
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