VA executives awash in bonuses despite ongoing wait-list scandal

Veteran Affairs employees raked in a combined $177 million in bonuses in fiscal-year 2015 even though VA offices across the country remain plagued by reports of mismanagement and continued manipulation of veteran wait-list times. USA Today has the scoop: More than 300 senior executives of the troubled agency received $3.3 million in bonuses, for an…

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New York Post editorial: ‘Worst of Obamacare is yet to come’

As if a 25-percent-average increase to federal Obamacare insurance premiums in 39 states isn’t enough, a slew of other problems associated with the botched health-insurance law are bound to arise in the weeks and months ahead. The New York Post has the details: More, the law also pushed consolidation — penalizing doctors who stay in independent…

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Sen. David Perdue: Time to ‘usher in the return of the citizen legislator’

Lawmakers weren’t always in office year after year and decade after decade. It used to be that legislating was a secondary job held by ordinary Americans — and it still is that way in some legislative chambers around the country — but not so much anymore in Washington, D.C. Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) explains why that’s…

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New York Times: Obamacare tax penalty ‘has not worked all that well’

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The New York Times documents the people choosing to go without Obamacare this coming year because of the price spikes sweeping the country and instead take the tax penalty and pray they don’t need health insurance. Here are some of the details: It has not worked all that well, and that is at least partly…

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Pentagon 10 years later demands soldiers cough up reenlistment bonuses

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Pentagon officials are ordering almost 10,000 soldiers to return reenlistment bonuses paid out a decade ago arguing the bonuses were overpayments and slapping the soldiers with interest fees and, in some cases, wage garnishments. The Los Angeles Times has the details: Investigations have determined that lack of oversight allowed for widespread fraud and mismanagement by…

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Just in time for Halloween, this man’s Obamacare premium reaches frightening figure

It’s become an all-too-familiar story and it’s getting worse: The next-door neighbors forced onto an Obamacare exchange will be paying more for their health insurance than Americans’ average monthly mortgage payment – this after President Obama said his signature health-insurance plan would “lower” premiums… Fox News’ Todd Starnes has the scoop: Mr. Wells, of Colquitt,…

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