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2009-11-02 Home Front: Politix

Annual Medicare Fraud: $60 Billion; Annual Profits of Top Ten Insurance Companies: $8 billion

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Does this include doctors and hospitals referring patients to their own CT scanners, and then ignoring the results when diagnosing their patients? Probably not.

Posted by gorb 2009-11-02 01:37|| 2009-11-02 01:37|| Front Page Top

#2 As 60 Minutes reported last week,

We've seen similar reports regularly for decades from 20/20, Dateline, 60 Minutes, etc. Different locations, same story. Solutions or consequences, not so much.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-11-02 13:33|| 2009-11-02 13:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Woozle, you ever spend any time in Mtn View or Truckee by chance?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-11-02 13:39|| 2009-11-02 13:39|| Front Page Top

#4 No, Besoeker - I grew up and went to school in So. California. Can't say I've even been through Truckee lol.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-11-02 13:54|| 2009-11-02 13:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Whahahah....Nor Coronado either I suspect.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-11-02 13:56|| 2009-11-02 13:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Close - we have a son currently living in San Diego.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-11-02 13:57|| 2009-11-02 13:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Solution: legislate disclosures necessary to facilitate warrantless searches by police services. Currently, the frauds are working under Legislator radar.

Posted by Angusoting Stalin9280 2009-11-02 18:01|| 2009-11-02 18:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Fraud is operating behind a wall of bureaucracy. Lots of paperwork, little certification or auditing, even less prosecution. What passes for reform will only magnify both the bureaucracy and the fraud.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-02 18:17|| 2009-11-02 18:17|| Front Page Top

#9 So if Medicare is considered about 1/3rd (1) of the national healthcare - we can expect $180 Billion in fraud after Obamacare kicks in?

(1) - heard that somewhere....

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-11-02 18:30|| 2009-11-02 18:30|| Front Page Top

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