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Dozens charged with largest Medicare scam ever - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101014/ap_on_bi_ge/us_medicare_fraud_arrests - broken link)
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NEW YORK – A vast network of Armenian gangsters and their associates used phantom health care clinics and other means to try to cheat Medicare out of $163 million, the largest fraud by one criminal enterprise in the program's history, U.S. authorities said Wednesday.
Somebody refresh my memory...
Why do we want further government involvment in health care again?
A better question is why hasn't government cracked down on Medicare fraud until now. They've been there all along and it's going after these wholesale scammers that's going to save us a ton of money. Medicare in itself isn't the problem, it's the lack of checks and balances which the new health care bill tries to addresses.
A better question is why hasn't government cracked down on Medicare fraud until now. They've been there all along and it's going after these wholesale scammers that's going to save us a ton of money.
Because government is ineffective and inefficient at policing itself.
You can read the story and get a warm fuzzy, but I'm thinking about the hundreds, maybe thousands of scams they haven't caught up with.
See, they pay first, chase later and then trumpet their success and in the end will recover only a fraction of what was scammed.If you think Obamacare won't get gamed, I have a bridge to sell you.
I wonder how much the whole investigative operation cost?
Last edited by Frank DeForrest; 10-14-2010 at 08:04 AM..
How many well know Doctors have been caught up in this scam. Most of us knows that this stuff go's on but wow, the people caught and the scope of the scam just wow. Look at how easy it is to get a criminal network going on. Medicare Fraud is nothing new, things should have been done way before this point. There are just so many individuals involved in the scope of this Fraudelent behavior, and how easy it was to assemble.
I guess the President was telling the truth when he said that they were going to really go after those committing fraud and abuse.
Haha.. I was wondering how long it would take before someone tried to give Obama credit for actions which have been going on for decades...
NEWS FLASH.. They are ALWAYS going after fraud and abuse.. it takes place DAILY.. Probably the reason these idiots got caught was because they sent out big red flare signals going.. "look at me committing this fraud!!"...
Yeah, thats like someone robbing the federal reserve while leaving their drivers license at the scene and then applauding the police for solving the case of the century.
I guess the President was telling the truth when he said that they were going to really go after those committing fraud and abuse.
Once a single payer Government health care system is established, the entire U.S. Health Care system can then be contracted out to Haliburton.
They will then be best able to maintain the appearance of proper functioning.
In other words, crime needs to be organized and then legalized.
It's the American way.
I think this was Hillary's proposal, if I'm not mistaken.
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