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2009-11-15 Home Front: Politix

Feds ignored Medicare scam warnings for years

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Posted by gorb 2009-11-15 01:02|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 Please blame OBAMA :)

Posted by play4keeps 2009-11-15 04:41|| 2009-11-15 04:41|| Front Page Top

#2 No need to, friend troll. It's what happens again and again when a large unwieldly bureacracy is given sole control of a major swath of our lives.

It doesn't matter who's in the White House ... this sort of mess is inherent in centralized bureaucracies. Which is why so many of us do not want more of it.

But given that Obama's pushing a LOT more of it, well ...

we can certainly both blame and resist him going forward.

Posted by lotp 2009-11-15 08:34|| 2009-11-15 08:34|| Front Page Top

#3 It's not like it's the bureaucrats' own money. Think of them as renters ... of our paychecks.

Posted by ed 2009-11-15 08:47|| 2009-11-15 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 You think the only campaign contributors to escape scrutiny are Wall Street ~~gamblers~~ investors, mortgage managers, et al?

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-15 09:50|| 2009-11-15 09:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Fraud in Medicare has been an issue since 1965. This article could as well have been written in the last year of the Clinton administration, with slightly different numbers. News about it only surfaces when there is some agenda being pushed. I wonder what the agenda is, this time around?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-11-15 11:14|| 2009-11-15 11:14|| Front Page Top

#6 A July 2008 warning said organized crime had infiltrated the system and was costing more than $1 million dollars for each phony Medicare provider license the crooks obtained.

Health care and the mob? So the Public Option is to provide Medicare-type health care to all, including illegal aliens? It isn't Dick Cheney I envision with blood dripping from his fangs. Wish someone could prove this impeachable offense!

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-11-15 19:14|| 2009-11-15 19:14|| Front Page Top

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