#Education Department withholding payment to student loan servicer after billing statement errors

#Education Department withholding payment to student loan servicer after billing statement errors

The Department of Education announced Monday that it is withholding millions of dollars in payment to the student loan servicer Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA) over billing statement errors it made.  The department said MOHELA “failed to meet its basic obligation” of getting the statements out in a reasonable timeframe, resulting in 2.5 million…

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#Kirby says US strikes on Iran proxies in Syria were ‘self-defense’

#Kirby says US strikes on Iran proxies in Syria were ‘self-defense’

White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Friday that the United States’s strikes on Iran proxies in Syria were made in self-defense. Kirby spoke with ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Friday morning after President Biden ordered U.S. military forces to carry out “self-defense airstrikes” on a weapons storage facility and an ammunition storage area used by…

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#Government the single greatest obstacle to health care quality

#Government the single greatest obstacle to health care quality

Once again, it’s Health Care Quality Week, when researchers and activists turn to government to fix the many serious quality problems in the U.S. health sector. Yet whenever government inserts itself into health care, low quality is the inevitable result. Government routinely mandates and subsidizes low-quality health care while blocking high-quality care. Whether it’s terrible…

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