flickr.com/photos/noprawnsDr. Pham, I presume?At first glance a press release today from the U.S. Attorney's office looks like dozens of dull media alerts the prosecutor routinely sends out alleging Medicaid fraud. Then I noticed this outrageous line in the release regarding podiatrist David Quang Pham of St. Louis and charges that the foot doctor filed bogus medical claims. In some instances, Dr. Pham submitted reimbursement
claims for treating the feet of patients, whose feet had been amputate
focusedfootcare.comUntil this past week, we here at Daily RFT had no idea about the clear connection between foot medicine and crime. But certainly such a connection exists. Consider the case of David Quang Pham. He's the St. Louis podiatrist indicted last week for fraudulently billing Medicaid and Medicare for work he claimed to perform on his patient's feet. But according to the U.S. Attorney's office some of Pham's "patients" didn't even have feet! They were amputees whose feet were removed p
​Senator Claire McCaskill held a town hall meeting on healthcare reform yesterday in Hillsboro. Oh sure, you could have watched it live on at least a couple of cable outlets. Or...if you were following the right people on Twitter, you could have read up-to-the-minute updates in (almost) real time. Here are a few of the tweets from attendees. (Twitter-er's quoted here: Jaelithe, KBestOliver, ReadingMachine, EdReggi, and Clairecmc (who is Claire McCaskill herself):Jaelithe: @ClaireCMC brought he
Longtime Missouri Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond, a stalwart Republican, has said more than a few things in his lengthy political career to draw the comedic wrath of Daily Show host Jon Stewart. In April, for instance, he claimed that punishing those responsible for Bush-era torture policies was something a "banana republic" would do. With material like that, Stewart's job is easy.But when Bond, who has announced he will not seek re-election next year, appeared on The Daily Show on Monday to pim
