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...Medicare officials are furious with the report. Mark McClellan, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, fired off an angry memo to GAO after he read it, accusing the agency of using "inaccurate, incomplete and subjective methods" to reach its conclusions. McClellan complains that the congressional watchdog agency asked trick questions in some cases, which a call center employee couldn't be expected to answer. GAO stands by its questions and its conclusions...
...took out the facts, it looks like we're talking about a Third World dictatorship," says Jay Stewart, executive director of Chicago's Better Government Association, a nonpartisan watchdog group formed in the 1920s out of concern for the rising influence of mobster Al Capone...
...domestic front, Chen's efforts to govern and reform have often been blocked by the opposition-controlled legislature. It has yet to confirm his nominees for president and vice-president of the Control Yuan, Taiwan's highest watchdog body, even though the posts have been vacant for more than a year. It has opposed the creation of an ethics and anticorruption bureau, a bill that would force political parties to be more transparent about their assets, and changes in the judiciary that would make the courts more efficient...
...watchdog group's goal is to boost shareholder efforts to make firms reveal their political contributions. In the past 18 months, 10 companies, including McDonald's and Morgan Stanley, have begun disclosing donations on their websites and given their boards oversight of the contributions. (Merck, which declined comment, began disclosing contributions last year, but its board doesn't supervise its giving.) Many companies fear alienating groups with competing political interests. Of 40 firms facing shareholder-sponsored disclosure resolutions, only one, the biotech firm Amgen, recommended a yes vote. Its measure passed last week...
...working for the ones who need it most. While middle- and upper-income seniors have been enrolling at a high rate, the consumer watchdog group Families USA released a report Tuesday noting that only about one-fourth of low-income seniors have signed up for the benefit. Of the 7.2 million seniors with incomes less than $14,700, just 1.7 million had enrolled in the program as of April 28, according to the organization's survey of state statistics. "The President and congressional leaders said their top priority was to sign up low-income seniors, so this is terribly disappointing...