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Medicare

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Food Stamps Traded for Drugs and Cash, Welcome Crackdown Coming

    Florida is notorious for Medicare fraud, and we also have more than our fair share of food stamp fraud. At least Miami residents can console themselves with the fact that our food stamp defrauders are not as shameless as those in other states.EBT cards, modern-day food stamps, are being traded for c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Mitt Romney's Victorious Hair Helmet and Five Other Things We'll Miss About the GOP Primary

    God bless his hair.​Mitt Romney won yesterday's Florida GOP primary, but we all know who the real victor was. Not Obama. And certainly not the country. No, el gran ganador was Willard's perfectly sculpted mop of Mittitude: his hair.Here are five other things we'll miss now that the political spotl ... More >>

  • News

    December 22, 2011

    Miami's top news stories of 2011

    Dude, where's my city? Miami wakes up with a pounding headache.

  • News

    November 3, 2011

    Robert's Drug Store busted for illegal oxycodone at Government Center

    Dude, where's my city? Miami wakes up with a pounding headache.

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Aiman Aryan, Accused Of Slinging Oxy, Ran Pharmacy In Downtown Government Center

    photo by Daniel Christensen via Wikimedia CommonsCounty Hall, oxy central?​In true South Florida fashion, a pill mill that trafficked thousands of illegal oxycodone tablets was operating right in the heart of Miami-Dade County government, the feds say.Recent charges filed against Robert's Drug Sto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    Ed Schultz Rips Marco Rubio for Insulting America

    ​So, Marco Rubio is going around calling America "weakened." He blames it on Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Well, MSNBC host Ed Schultz takes exception to the claim, and ripped Rubio in a 16-minute segment aired last Friday."Rubio is stupid, he doesn't even know he's offensive," says Schu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    53 Percent of Floridians Still Think Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal

    In its seemingly random sports poll released today, Public Policy Polling did sneak in a few poll questions about actual public policy. Though a majority of Americans now support gay marriage, Floridians aren't quite ready for it. Though, they do, by a large majority, support civil unions for s ... More >>

  • News

    June 30, 2011

    Rick Scott wants to drug-test his brother

    In its seemingly random sports poll released today, Public Policy Polling did sneak in a few poll questions about actual public policy. Though a majority of Americans now support gay marriage, Floridians aren't quite ready for it. Though, they do, by a large majority, support civil unions for s ... More >>

  • News

    June 30, 2011

    Letters from the issue of June 30, 2011

    In its seemingly random sports poll released today, Public Policy Polling did sneak in a few poll questions about actual public policy. Though a majority of Americans now support gay marriage, Floridians aren't quite ready for it. Though, they do, by a large majority, support civil unions for s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Mike Haridopolos Kicked Off Conservative Talk Show For Being Waffling Idiot

    ​Rep. Paul Ryan's Republican budget plan, which among other things essentially replaces Medicare with a voucher program, is shaping up to a be big issue in the 2012 election, and one would expect any candidate, especially running for a Federal legislative office, to have an opinion on it. Flor ... More >>

  • News

    May 19, 2011

    Letters from the issue of May 19, 2011

    ​Rep. Paul Ryan's Republican budget plan, which among other things essentially replaces Medicare with a voucher program, is shaping up to a be big issue in the 2012 election, and one would expect any candidate, especially running for a Federal legislative office, to have an opinion on it. Flor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Health Care Costs a Miami Family of Four $23,362 a Year, More Than Anywhere Else in America

    ​The average health care bill for a family of four living in the Miami area in 2011 will be $23,362. That's more than any other major metro area in America, and a 120.5 percent, or $3,969, more than the national average. Considering that national average for health care cost has more than doubled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    Rick Scott Ends Twitter Town Hall As Soon As He's Called a "Jackass"

    Our new gov's evening smoke and tweet session ended on a sour note.​Yesterday, Rick Scott fired up the ol' Interwebs and announced his first inaugural "Twitter Town Hall." Surprise, surprise! He's just as evasive 140 characters at a time as he is in real time.Even still, the event was going just f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2010

    Mugshots Friday: Santa Got Booked In Miami

    ​Have you spent the last week wondering why that plate of cookies went untouched and your stocking was bereft of swag? No, it's not because Santa found out about your massive Medicare fraud; Ol' Saint Nick's just got his own problems with Johnny Law. For Mugshot Friday's very special holiday week, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Congressman-elect David Rivera Being Investigated for $500,000 in Secret Payments from Dog Track

    ​Floridians sure didn't let silly things like "ethics" get in their way of voting this year. Just ask Governor-elect Medicare Fraud. Despite evidence that David Rivera claimed employment for years as a state legislator from an organization that said they'd never employed him, he was easily elected ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    FAIR-y tales: The immigration saga continues

    ​Floridians sure didn't let silly things like "ethics" get in their way of voting this year. Just ask Governor-elect Medicare Fraud. Despite evidence that David Rivera claimed employment for years as a state legislator from an organization that said they'd never employed him, he was easily elected ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Christian Family Coalition Asks Rick Scott to Stop Selling Pornography to Latinos

    The Christian Family Coalition, a Miami-based group that hems way to the right on social issues, is calling Gov-elect Rick Scott to stop selling pornography to Latinos. So when reviewing Scott's business past they weren't, like every other sane person, so much concerned that he ran a company that wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    Lt. Gov-elect Jennifer Carroll May Have Falsified Documents to Scam Government Program

    Lt. Gov-elect Jennifer Carroll's ethics record may have looked squeaky clean compared to Gov-elect Rick Scott and his former company's record setting Medicare fraud, but it appears that Carroll's company may have been involved in scamming a government program too. The Florida Times-Union reports tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Alex Sink Concedes to Rick Scott

    In almost any other year Alex Sink probably would have scrubbed the floor with Rick Scott. Instead this morning she issued her concession speech. With a margin currently less than 80,000 votes it appears that Rick Scott, the man who ran a company convicted of defrauding Medicare, is set to take over ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    What the Hell is Wrong with the Florida Democratic Party?

    ​The Florida Democratic Party has nearly 600,000 more registered voters in the state than the Republicans, yet last night they failed miserably in delivering on a single important race. Their Governor candidate lost to a man who ran a company involved in the biggest Medicare fraud case in American ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    Alex Sink's Debate "Cheat" Is Apparently Really Big News

    ​California and New York are in the midst of colorful gubernatorial elections, but Florida's race hasn't been getting much national attention. That's amazing considering an unfit, self-financed, crooked businessman hell-bent on stirring up divisive issues might become the next governor o ... More >>

  • News

    August 5, 2010

    Rick Scott and Bill McCollum want to turn Miami into an immigration prison

    ​California and New York are in the midst of colorful gubernatorial elections, but Florida's race hasn't been getting much national attention. That's amazing considering an unfit, self-financed, crooked businessman hell-bent on stirring up divisive issues might become the next governor o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Rick Scott and Bill McCollum Are Florida's Grand Wizards

    ​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke claims Democrats are missing in action in the governor's race.The Democratic Party is out of sight and out of mind in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Manuel Diaz's Weird Wine Scam Ripped Off the Elderly

    Something just didn't smell right​Manuel Diaz, 60, of Hialeah, has been caught in a weird wine scam. The con artist suggested to several elderly people that a case of wine might be the perfect present for the birthdays of friends, loved ones, and even, apparently, their doctors. He told his victim ... More >>

  • News

    April 22, 2010

    University of Miami is no longer Playboy's top party school

    Something just didn't smell right​Manuel Diaz, 60, of Hialeah, has been caught in a weird wine scam. The con artist suggested to several elderly people that a case of wine might be the perfect present for the birthdays of friends, loved ones, and even, apparently, their doctors. He told his victim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Playboy Magazine Names University on Miami #4 Party School in America

    ​ Breaking news from the best twitter in the land, Playboy's: the University of Miami is no longer the no. 1 party school in the country. It is with a heavy heart that we report that the University of Texas at Austin is the new champion, thanks to its "big-time sports, gorgeous babes, [and] great ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Obama Critic Rick Scott to Run for Governor, and Boy, Does He Have an Interesting Past

    ​Richard L. Scott, a businessman who lives in Naples, has thrown his hat into the ring for the Republican's gubernatorial nomination against Attorney General Bill McCollum and state Sen. Paula Dockery. Don't know anything about him? Here's some fun facts:He hates President Obama's health care refo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Fake Cop Knifes Man After Pulling Him Over, Fake Firefighter Just Really Wants to be a Firefighter

    ​Miami-Dade saw not one but two cases of people impersonating our men in uniform in the past day. One was using the powers of the badge for evil, while another just really, really seems to enjoy the idea of being a firefighter.In the first incident, a man posing as a cop pulled over car salesman C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Health Care Reform Passes, No Thanks To Your South Florida Politicos

    If you're half as cool as the staff here at Riptide, you were flipping between March Madness and C-SPAN last night like your life depended on it. Which to pick?photo by Sage Ross, via Wikimedia CommonsThe power of cardboard signs and megaphones was not enough to derail health reform.On CBS, Korie Lu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Alex Sink's Confusing Response to Health-Care Reform

    ​We've had a hard time figuring out where presumptive gubernatorial nominee Alex Sink lies on the Democratic Party's spectrum.Is she a dyed-in-the-wool, bleeding-heart liberal? Eh, probably not.Is she a staunch Blue Dog? Doesn't quite seem like it.Is she, like so many Florida politicians, a cautio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    Tired of Art Basel? Five Suggestions for a Culture-less Weekend Getaway!

    ​Art Basel has a funny way of making us feel like we're outsiders in our own town. Traffic is horrible. Parking even moreso. The line at your favorite Cuban restaurant (even if that happens to be Pollo Tropical) gets filled with hoity-toity Europeans trying to work in a little "authentic Miami exp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    Hialeah-Based Medicare Scammer Will Do Time

    Chase Park Via Flickr CC​You know what's delightful? Knowing your tax money goes to slimy guys such as convicted Medicare crook Ramon Santos. Riptide certainly sleeps better at night knowing we helped finance his shiny new Ford Expedition. Sigh. Last Friday, the 42-year-old faux-nurse from Hialea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    Undercover Fed Busts Major Bonanno Mob Ring In South Florida

    An undercover FBI sting unraveled a South Florida wing of the infamous Bonanno Crime Family, leading to charges this morning against 11 members who are accused of running a dizzying criminal empire.Allegedly, the men smuggled cigarettes and committed bank and mail fraud. They laundered money, sold d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    Sparked By Sucess in Miami, Feds Widen Health Care Fraud Force

    The string of headlines involving several local busts of fraudulent HIV/AIDS treatment facilities milking medicare for money was no coincidence. Two years ago the justice department begin specifically targeting medicare fraud in the city. After success in Miami and then Los Angeles, today Attorney G ... More >>

  • News

    March 5, 2009

    New Tax Might Kill Miami's Cigar Rollers

    The string of headlines involving several local busts of fraudulent HIV/AIDS treatment facilities milking medicare for money was no coincidence. Two years ago the justice department begin specifically targeting medicare fraud in the city. After success in Miami and then Los Angeles, today Attorney G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Obama's New Cigar Tax Might Just Kill Miami's Torcedores

    Tendrils of earthy smoke snake through a room on the edge of Little Havana, past old men in guayaberas slapping dominoes on a folding table and a long counter where a wrinkled 80-year-old brews espresso. Near the front window facing NW Seventh Street, Dionisio Gonzalez gently peels a cured deep-bro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    Local Conservatives Think Conservatives Weren't Conservative Enough

    Tendrils of earthy smoke snake through a room on the edge of Little Havana, past old men in guayaberas slapping dominoes on a folding table and a long counter where a wrinkled 80-year-old brews espresso. Near the front window facing NW Seventh Street, Dionisio Gonzalez gently peels a cured deep-bro ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 18, 2007

    Looking for Mr. Positive

    Urban legend or reality, The Bugchasers seeks a spotlight

  • Calendar

    October 21, 2004

    Night&Day

    Urban legend or reality, The Bugchasers seeks a spotlight

  • News

    June 12, 2003

    Florida's Mean Season

    Overriding minimum wage guarantees at MIA

  • News

    February 22, 2001

    Addiction Affliction

    You thought going cold turkey was painful? Try Mohamed Ibrahim's rehab program at the Sea Winds Healthcare Services.

  • City Life

    May 11, 2000

    Best Hero

    Robert Beatty

  • News

    January 6, 2000

    Pain & Gain, Part 3

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • News

    September 16, 1999

    Moreno Sidebar

    Moreno by the Numbers*

  • News

    November 5, 1998

    Letters

    Moreno by the Numbers*

  • News

    October 8, 1998

    The Frugal Gutman

    Taped conversations of indicted State Sen. Alberto Gutman reveal a man who missed his true calling as a food critic

  • News

    April 30, 1998

    Fall from Grace

    Health Crisis Network's stunning financial meltdown has spurred an outpouring of concern and a raft of rumors

  • News

    June 6, 1996

    Let the Sunshine In

    Health Crisis Network's stunning financial meltdown has spurred an outpouring of concern and a raft of rumors

  • News

    June 15, 1995

    Swelter 9

    Health Crisis Network's stunning financial meltdown has spurred an outpouring of concern and a raft of rumors

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