The mental-health-care system says Lynda Sue Dale, a young mentally ill mother, is ineligible for treatment -- until she informs the bureaucrats she's talking to New Times
THE STATE'S MEDICAL SYSTEM FOR THE POOR DOESN'T KNOW WHETHER ITS CLIENTS ARE DEAD OR ALIVE. AND THAT'S HARDLY THE WORST OF THE PROBLEMS AT THE ARIZONA HEALTH CARE COST CONTAINMENT SYSTEM.
What a scammer!
Timothy Keay Isaac, 47, pleaded guilty today in federal court to a slew of charges related to his illicit company, which brought into the country a Chinese Viagra-like drug without prescriptions.
But this is the part that bugs us: In 2006, Isaac applied for disability benefits from the Social Security Administration and received $35,000. Yet that very same year, the con-man took out a mortgage on a $2.9 million house. Our question: Where was the Social Security Administration -
SSA Commissioner Michael Astrue speaks as U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner looks on like a chastened puppy (did somebody hit Timmy with a rolled-up newspaper?).
How about just saying "oops?"
The Social Security Administration today defended its decision to hold a "training conference" at the lavish Arizona Biltmore last week that cost taxpayers roughly $750,000.
Mark Lassiter, spokesman for the SSA, tells Federal Times.com that the three-day retreat was j
