MaggieD
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fraud in medicare is lots of money, no doubt. but compared to the unfunded liabilities? suggesting cleaning up fraud to help plug that hole is like sending my three year old and his plastic bucket to dig the panama canal.
We should be SCREAMING!!!! about Medicare fraud. Social Security fraud. Any and all of it.
To say it's like sending your three-year-old to dig the Panama Canal is, I don't know, ridiculous?
Medicare Fraud: Paying homeless people to come in for ridiculously unnecessary procedures; doctors performing myriad unnecessary surgeries; false pathology reports (skin cancer, in particular) causing unnecessary surgery; "conditions du jour" including things like sleep apnea and so much more...
Medicare Waste: Treating a 6-month-terminal illness aggressively to live, hold tight, 6 months. oldsters incessantly using ambulances and going to the emergency room for nonemergencies; unnecessary tests performed because we refuse to implement tort reform; our society's continuous refusal to accept that death is inevitable and that quality matters far more than quantity...
Social Security Fraud: Owners of Subchapter S corporations evading Social Security taxes; lawyers who make a living encouraging people to file false Social Security disability claims and a system that allows them to do it...
Our government's paultry attempt at cleaning up fraud in these areas is unconscienable. Put a bounty on the cheaters! Pay a reward of 15% of money saved through fraud discovery to all Federal employees responsible for uncovering these jerks and watch what happens. We would all be amazed.