$Billions in Medicare/Medicaid Lost to FRAUD and ABUSE PER YEAR! Why Isn't Our Government Taking Measures To PROTECT How & to WHOM Our Money Is SPENT?

HERE IS YOUR WASTE MR. PRESIDENT! FIX IT.

Don't penalize the rest of us hard working law abiding taxpaying citizens for our government's INCOMPETENCE! By tackling this one area alone, you can re-direct the funds toward opening medical clinics across the United States with high ethical standards that are set forth and required by our government. These medical clinics sponsored by medicare and medicaid can provide all levels of healthcare to the poor, sick and needy in our country! Now this is taxpayer money well spent that will IMPROVE the greater good of society as a whole versus the corruption, greed and fraud our government likes to REWARD!

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Law Enforcement Examiner
$Billions in Medicare/Medicaid lost to fraud, abuse
written by Jim Kouri
July 23, 6:35 AM

Increased Government Control of Health Care Will Increase Fraud, Corruption and Abuse!

Missing from President Barack Obama's health care program pitch last night was the likelihood that increased government control will also mean increased fraud, corruption and abuse of the system.

Last night, millions of Americans watched President Barack Obama sell his national health care plan on nationwide television. The reporters during the televised question and answer portion of Obama's performance attempted to appear unbiased, but their tone and demeanor was a marked difference from the attack approach they use on conservative politicians. And not one reporter asked about the potential for fraud and corruption in such a huge financial endeavor.

With the Obama Administration and Democrat leaders in both houses of the US Congress desperately pushing a major overhaul -- many say government takeover -- of US health care, a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police's Fraud & White Collar Crime Committee sheds light on the fraud and corruption already existing in government medical programs. And one can only imagine the amount of corruption that will occur with total government control of the medicine.

According to Steven Malanga of the Manhattan Institute, experts estimate that "abuses of Medicaid (alone) eat up at least 10 percent of the program’s total cost nationwide -- a waste of $30 billion a year. Unscrupulous doctors billing for over 24 hours per day of procedures, phony companies invoicing for phantom services, pharmacists filling prescriptions for dead patients, home health-care companies demanding payment for treating clients actually in the hospital -- on and on the rip-offs go."

The cheating is brazen because scam artists have figured out that years of lax oversight have made Medicaid easy plunder, according to Malanga.

On April 22, 2009, Government Accountability Office officials testified before an ad-hoc Congressional subcommittee at a hearing entitled, "Eliminating Waste and Fraud in Medicare and Medicaid."

In a subsequent letter responding to a May 29, 2009 request for responses to questions for the record related to the April 22, 2009, testimony, the GAO responded to the following questions: What do you see as the biggest challenge for Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide an estimate for improper payments under Medicare Part D? Has GAO identified any problems with the current process for reviewing and paying Medicare claims that would make the program more vulnerable to fraudulent claims? Is there any reason the US federal agency which administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program cannot include penalties in its Medicare Administrative Contractor contracts for paying improper or fraudulent claims that they are aware of?

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