I love the part about ‘only’ 38 percent going to the poor. Does that include Medicaid? Either way, it is a massive sum. Was there a category for fraud? Scamming the various handout programs is a massive industry in and of itself. Payments to the ‘poor’ enrich an army of lawyers and accountants. SSI alone finances an entire infrastructure of crooked enablers whose sole income derives from qualifying able-bodied people permanently to the rolls of public assistance.
Annual Medicare Fraud: $60 Billion; Annual Profits of Top Ten Insurance Companies: $8 billion
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