This Sunday: 1. Billions of your tax dollars fund the G.I. bill to pay for college military vets. So why are billions more potentially going to help students allegedly defrauded by for-profit colleges? 2. Scott Thuman tracks the failing Obamacare non-profit co-ops to Nevada as more than a half million are bumped off their insurance plans […]
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For-Profit College Scams? Full Measure This Week
Reasons to watch Full Measure this Sunday: We investigate for-profit colleges that allegedly prey on military troops. Your tax dollars may end up paying for the fraud. The report will feature a soldier left feeling cheated and in debt; and interviews with Sen. Dick Durbin, a whistleblower who worked at one for profit college, and an advocate for the […]
Illegal Immigration: 3 reasons to watch Full Measure Sunday
The news media is full of stories about deserving illegal immigrants who come to the U.S. and are law-abiding contributors to society. But there’s a flip side to illegal immigration and it’s not well covered in the news media: tens of thousands of illegal immigrants committing serious crimes – including murdering American citizens – on […]
Obamacare: Republicans Can’t Win For Losing?
If the plaintiffs win the current Affordable Care Act (ACA) case before the U.S. Supreme Court, King v. Burwell, millions of Americans who bought health insurance through the federal marketplace or “exchange” will lose the federal tax dollars they’re getting to help buy their policies. That’s because the Court would have ruled the ACA only allowed […]
The Not-So-Public Business of HealthCare.gov
In 2009, when President Obama ordered federal agencies to be more open and err on the side of releasing material to the public, this can’t be what anyone had in mind: thousands of pages of HealthCare.gov public business conducted via email by public officials yet somehow deemed so sensitive, so secret in nature, that we […]
Obamacare official in California: ‘Avoid using public email’
Part two of my investigation into Covered California, Obamacare’s biggest state experiment: Aiden Hill’s introduction to the secretive culture at Covered California came in his first days on the job. He had just been hired to head up the agency’s $120 million call center effort when he emailed a superior April 18, 2013 and got […]
Obamacare’s Biggest Experiment: “Covered California”
Covered California is the largest of the state exchanges or marketplaces set up to sell health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Now, several insiders are speaking about the agency’s trouble beginnings, a “culture of secrecy” and alleged waste of your tax dollars. [quote]“I really believe that we’ve created a monster—and it’s an unaccountable monster,” one […]
Alleged Suppression of Investigative Reporting? Sounds Familiar…
New York Magazine’s account of the alleged “suppression” of investigative stories at NBC News sounds familiar — and much like my own experience as told in Stonewalled. For example, at precisely the same time my producer and I suddenly began hitting a brick wall when offering investigative stories on Obamacare to the CBS News broadcasts, in October of […]
