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Canada Rescinds Digital Services Tax After Trump Halts Trade Talks

Canada Rescinds Digital Services Tax After Trump Halts Trade Talks

Originally published by The Epoch Times: Canada Abandons Digital Services Tax Following Trump's Trade Negotiation Suspension The Canadian…

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Canada rescinds digital services tax targeting US technology firms to advance stalled trade talks

Canada rescinds digital services tax targeting US technology firms to advance stalled trade talks

Canada has decided to cancel its digital services tax on U.S. technology firms just hours before it was…

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Enterprise Financial Services Corp (EFSC) Trades at a Discount, Says DA Davidson

Enterprise Financial Services Corp (EFSC) Trades at a Discount, Says DA Davidson

Enterprise Financial Services Corp (NASDAQ:EFSC) has caught the eye of analysts at DA Davidson, who have reiterated their…

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Lumeris Is Leveraging Google Cloud’s Platform To Launch AI Powered Primary Care Services

Lumeris Is Leveraging Google Cloud’s Platform To Launch AI Powered Primary Care Services

Lumeris has recently announced a groundbreaking partnership with Google Cloud to develop a state-of-the-art primary-care-as-a-service platform. This innovative…

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Apple Intelligence: Everything you need to know about Apple’s AI model and services

Apple Intelligence: Everything you need to know about Apple’s AI model and services

Apple Intelligence has been making waves in the tech world since its introduction in October 2024. With the…

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RFK Jr. Will Shrink The Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration. Here’s What That Means For Public Health

RFK Jr. Will Shrink The Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration. Here’s What That Means For Public Health

The recent appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services has sparked controversy…

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Eliminating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Medicaid My Administration has been relentlessly committed to rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in Government programs to preserve and protect them for those who rely most on them. The Medicaid program was designed to be a program to compassionately provide taxpayer dollars to healthcare providers who offer care to the most vulnerable Americans. To keep payments reasonable, billable costs for such care were historically capped at the same level that healthcare providers could receive from Medicare. The State and Federal Governments jointly shared this cost burden to ensure those of lesser means did not go untreated. Under the Biden Administration, States and healthcare providers were permitted to game the system. For example, States “taxed” healthcare providers, but sent the same money back to them in the form of a “Medicaid payment,” which automatically unlocked for healthcare providers an additional “burden-sharing” payment from the Federal Government. Through this gimmick, the State could avoid contributing money toward Medicaid services, meaning the State no longer had a reason to be prudent in the amount of reimbursement provided. Instead of paying Medicare rates, many States that utilize these arrangements now pay the same healthcare providers almost three times the Medicare amount, a practice encouraged by the Biden Administration. These State Directed Payments have rapidly accelerated, quadrupling in magnitude over the last 4 years and reaching 0 billion in 2024 alone. This trajectory threatens the Federal Treasury and Medicaid’s long-term stability, and the imbalance between Medicaid and Medicare patients threatens to jeopardize access to care for our seniors. I pledged to protect and improve these important Government healthcare programs for those that rely on them. Seniors on Medicare and Medicaid recipients both deserve access to quality care in a system free from the fraud, waste, and abuse, that enriches the unscrupulous and jeopardizes the programs themselves. We will take action to continue to love and cherish the Medicare and Medicaid programs to ensure they are preserved for those who need them most. The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall therefore take appropriate action to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid, including by ensuring Medicaid payments rates are not higher than Medicare, to the extent permitted by applicable law. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. DONALD J. TRUMP

Eliminating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Medicaid My Administration has been relentlessly committed to rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in Government programs to preserve and protect them for those who rely most on them. The Medicaid program was designed to be a program to compassionately provide taxpayer dollars to healthcare providers who offer care to the most vulnerable Americans. To keep payments reasonable, billable costs for such care were historically capped at the same level that healthcare providers could receive from Medicare. The State and Federal Governments jointly shared this cost burden to ensure those of lesser means did not go untreated. Under the Biden Administration, States and healthcare providers were permitted to game the system. For example, States “taxed” healthcare providers, but sent the same money back to them in the form of a “Medicaid payment,” which automatically unlocked for healthcare providers an additional “burden-sharing” payment from the Federal Government. Through this gimmick, the State could avoid contributing money toward Medicaid services, meaning the State no longer had a reason to be prudent in the amount of reimbursement provided. Instead of paying Medicare rates, many States that utilize these arrangements now pay the same healthcare providers almost three times the Medicare amount, a practice encouraged by the Biden Administration. These State Directed Payments have rapidly accelerated, quadrupling in magnitude over the last 4 years and reaching $110 billion in 2024 alone. This trajectory threatens the Federal Treasury and Medicaid’s long-term stability, and the imbalance between Medicaid and Medicare patients threatens to jeopardize access to care for our seniors. I pledged to protect and improve these important Government healthcare programs for those that rely on them. Seniors on Medicare and Medicaid recipients both deserve access to quality care in a system free from the fraud, waste, and abuse, that enriches the unscrupulous and jeopardizes the programs themselves. We will take action to continue to love and cherish the Medicare and Medicaid programs to ensure they are preserved for those who need them most. The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall therefore take appropriate action to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid, including by ensuring Medicaid payments rates are not higher than Medicare, to the extent permitted by applicable law. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. DONALD J. TRUMP

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID…

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Lightspeed backs Indian home services startup Snabbit as the next big consumer trend

Lightspeed backs Indian home services startup Snabbit as the next big consumer trend

Revolutionizing Home Services in India with Snabbit Home services in India have traditionally been offline and informally run,…

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul Complains Republican Spending Bill Could Cut Services to ‘Members of the Undocumented Community’ |

New York Governor Kathy Hochul Complains Republican Spending Bill Could Cut Services to ‘Members of the Undocumented Community’ |

Hochul's Concerns Over GOP Spending Bill: A Deep Dive In a recent interview with Telemundo, New York's Democratic…

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Presidential Message on Emergency Medical Services Week, 2025 – The White House

Presidential Message on Emergency Medical Services Week, 2025 – The White House

Over 240 Million Calls for Help: A Testament to American Resilience Every year, Americans dial 911 over 240…

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Is Quanta Services (PWR) The Most Crowded Hedge Fund Stock That is Targeted by Short Sellers?

Is Quanta Services (PWR) The Most Crowded Hedge Fund Stock That is Targeted by Short Sellers?

Quanta Services, Inc. (NYSE:PWR) has recently been highlighted as one of the most crowded hedge fund stocks that…

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A Cruel Tradeoff: Building the “Amazon of Deportation” While Tearing Down Health and Human Services

A Cruel Tradeoff: Building the “Amazon of Deportation” While Tearing Down Health and Human Services

The Trump Administration's Heartless Priorities: Deportation vs. Health and Human Services As the Trump administration plans to spend…

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