U.S. MILITARY EFFICIENCY
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LOST
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Monday, August 9, 2010
Medicare Fraud and Obamacare
According to a report out of Washington, (Associated Press) Medicare had $835 million in questionable payments in 2007. In 2009 the fraud identified in Medicare was $36 billion. Quite a hike, don't you think? Is that Bush oversite versus Obama oversite?
Medicare now hires independent contractors to ferret out fraud, and pays them well over $100 million per year to find it. Yet the contractors find only about 5-7% of the ongoing fraud. Isn't this just like the government? Hire ineffective companies to find the fraud, and then don't bother making sure the companies you hire are doing a satisfactory job. Just keep on paying them and paying them for sloppy results. And this is the government that is going to run our health care system.
Medicare now hires independent contractors to ferret out fraud, and pays them well over $100 million per year to find it. Yet the contractors find only about 5-7% of the ongoing fraud. Isn't this just like the government? Hire ineffective companies to find the fraud, and then don't bother making sure the companies you hire are doing a satisfactory job. Just keep on paying them and paying them for sloppy results. And this is the government that is going to run our health care system.
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