Posted on 11/04/2009 6:21:43 PM PST by markomalley
According to 60 Minutes, cocaine trafficking has now given way to Medicare fraud as the number-one illicit enterprise in South Florida. Both 60 Minutes and the Washington Post report that nationwide Medicare fraud now costs American taxpayers $60 billion a year.
The 60 Minutes story is fully of juicy anecdotes about government incompetence. There's the criminal who says that stealing from Medicare is so "easy" that "it was ridiculous." There's the lady who for six years has been telling Medicare officials that strange and extravagant charges keep showing up on her explanations of Medicare benefits--charges that officials still have yet to prevent from accruing, and from being paid by tax dollars. And there's the man on Medicare who used his own hands and arms to open up his explanation of benefits, only to read that Medicare had been billed--and had paid--for two new (prosthetic) arms on his behalf.
Even 60 Minutes says that the rampant nature of Medicare fraud raises "some troubling questions about our government's ability to manage a medical bureaucracy."
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
This bunch couldn't manage a bowel movement.
I dunno 'bout that. Seems to me that one of the few things that they are highly proficient at is generating sh!t.
True . . . but that's not the same as managing it.
And with all that Federal Money (Obama’s Stash), cronies line up to be repaid with ever increasing payoffs.
Dr Pelosi can fix this.
Pray for America’s Freedom
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