Thousands of Medicare patients are being turned away at cancer clinics.

Cancer clinics across the country have begun turning away thousands of Medicare patients, blaming the sequester budget cuts. Oncologists say the reduced funding, which took effect for Medicare on April 1, makes it impossible to administer expensive chemotherapy drugs while staying afloat financially. (Click the above link for the full story)

What sequester? Department of Education posts six figure job.

Federal budget cuts are sending a chill through the Native American school districts in Minnesota. (AP) The Department of Education’s sequester cuts are taking a brutal toll on federally-funded schools on Native American reservations, but the federal agency still found money to create a new six-figure job promoting “Educational Excellence for African-Americans.”School officials on reservations […]