Waiting for the official spin line

[Samnospam]

$222m. pocket change, that's hardly even a bankers contribution to a presidential reelection campaign, I keep that much in my wheelbarrow for grocery shopping.

[hobbyfarm2145365]

I agree on medicare fraud  but I just read recently of 500/600 million in the crop ins  fraud. That to is probably tip of abuse.  People  moving yeilds around on various farms to turn in  ins claims.

[r3020]

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@schnurrbart wrote:

I'm sure that is the case many times but several years ago there was a dr. who was trimming toenails and charging medicare for "foot surgery".  Getting a pedicure shouldn't cost a thousand dollars!!

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A good audit system should have caught something like that I would think and it would abviously be fraud with legal repercussions for the 'dr.'

There was a doctor in Ontario that lost his license as well as other penalties becuase he charged health care for 'phantom' patients.

I think the health care payment recorded tripped him up because his income/payments from the system were higher than others so an investigation was launched and the fraud in his books was proved.

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Just what we need....a few 100,000 unionized federal employees to audit medicare. Spend $10 to save $1.