That's where the money is

byebye tax dollars:

http://www.aarp.org/states/fl/news/articles/medicare_ripoffs_stealing_your_health_care.html

[...] law-enforcement authorities estimate that fraud, waste and abuse cost U.S. taxpayers as much as $60 billion across all public health-care programs. Together, the United States spent more than $1 trillion on all public health programs in 2004, roughly half of all health spending.

Alongside the horrible Medicare Part D plan generated under our most recent Republican president, the amount of funds that are being thrown away to "professional medicare scammers" is shocking. Even more appalling, are the number of paper claims that Feds have been ignoring--each which provided substanial evidence that the medicare system was being taken advantage of. The new health care bill is planning to allocate millions of dollars for greater caution in hope to prevent such reoccurring fraudulent cases. ...

"For three years, the federal agency in charge of preventing Medicare fraud repeatedly ignored internal watchdog warnings about swindlers stealing millions of dollars by scamming several programs, documents show.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services received roughly 30 warnings from inspectors over three years -- mostly under the Bush administration -- but didn't respond to half of them, even after repeated letters, according to records provided to The Associated Press by U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley's office.

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. The letter got no response, Grassley said."

READ:http://www.aapsonline.org/fraud/medfraud.htm