disrupter
10-26-2009, 01:14 AM
I watched '60 Minutes' tonight. [Sunday 25 Oct 09]
Can i say i am shocked?
Profoundly disturbed that the Medicare system is this readily defrauded?
More importantly that tax payer dollars are this easily stolen?
I know it happens in Katrina clean up, an emergency that veils the fraud,
or foreign wars where we know it goes on to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, where hysteric cries of 'War on Terrorism', 'Islamofascism' or '911' as well as waving flags & slick uniforms are used to distract us,
But even Medicare, a domestic program is so poorly audited &/or designed that it is estimated that it gets ripped off for at least 60 billion dollars a year?
Medicare fraud - estimated now to total about
$60 billion a year - has become one of, if not the most profitable, crimes in America.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/23/60minutes/main5414390.shtml
Out of a Medicare budget of 444 billion as per 2008 = 13.5%.
And the same idiots [criminals?] who allow this to go on, namely our supposed representatives are now 'reforming' healthcare, even after the Medicare part D drug benefit was bloated corporate welfare costing at least 100 billion dollars a year more than it should?
I am no longer on the fence.
The current healthcare reform must be derailed.
It is just one more avenue to rob tax payers & extort money from millions for insurance company gangsters.
Congress & the Whitehouse's answer to 'cost cutting' is reducing Medicare payments to legitimate doctors while these tremendous sums are simply going out to gangsters? No way Jose.
This is mismanagement on a Herculean scale.
It is the way these programs are run & [not] audited that is the biggest part of the problem.
This is true in Medicare, War 'reconstruction' contracts, War/Defense expenditures.
We need hard headed auditors. We probably should institute a death penalty for fraud, as the Chinese implement on a regular basis.
Why do people become monetary fools as soon as one starts talking about healthcare? Both in government [feel good] programs as well as private insurers who want you to be all fuzzy & gauzy headed instead of asking some tough as nails questions?
Maybe government is the worst way of doing things,
especially when it is run by criminal lobbyists for criminal lobbyists, but robs working taxpayers & unborn babies to pay for it.
Can i say i am shocked?
Profoundly disturbed that the Medicare system is this readily defrauded?
More importantly that tax payer dollars are this easily stolen?
I know it happens in Katrina clean up, an emergency that veils the fraud,
or foreign wars where we know it goes on to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, where hysteric cries of 'War on Terrorism', 'Islamofascism' or '911' as well as waving flags & slick uniforms are used to distract us,
But even Medicare, a domestic program is so poorly audited &/or designed that it is estimated that it gets ripped off for at least 60 billion dollars a year?
Medicare fraud - estimated now to total about
$60 billion a year - has become one of, if not the most profitable, crimes in America.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/23/60minutes/main5414390.shtml
Out of a Medicare budget of 444 billion as per 2008 = 13.5%.
And the same idiots [criminals?] who allow this to go on, namely our supposed representatives are now 'reforming' healthcare, even after the Medicare part D drug benefit was bloated corporate welfare costing at least 100 billion dollars a year more than it should?
I am no longer on the fence.
The current healthcare reform must be derailed.
It is just one more avenue to rob tax payers & extort money from millions for insurance company gangsters.
Congress & the Whitehouse's answer to 'cost cutting' is reducing Medicare payments to legitimate doctors while these tremendous sums are simply going out to gangsters? No way Jose.
This is mismanagement on a Herculean scale.
It is the way these programs are run & [not] audited that is the biggest part of the problem.
This is true in Medicare, War 'reconstruction' contracts, War/Defense expenditures.
We need hard headed auditors. We probably should institute a death penalty for fraud, as the Chinese implement on a regular basis.
Why do people become monetary fools as soon as one starts talking about healthcare? Both in government [feel good] programs as well as private insurers who want you to be all fuzzy & gauzy headed instead of asking some tough as nails questions?
Maybe government is the worst way of doing things,
especially when it is run by criminal lobbyists for criminal lobbyists, but robs working taxpayers & unborn babies to pay for it.