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cbsnews.com - 10/26/2009
Medicare Fraud: A $60 Billion Crime
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Play CBS Video Video The $60 Billion Fraud Medicare and Medicaid fraudsters are beating U.S. taxpayers out of an estimated $90 billion a year using a billing scam that is surprisingly easy to execute. Steve Kroft investigates
'60 Minutes': Medicare Fraud Raises 'Troubling Questions About Our Government's Ability to Manage a Medical Bureaucracy'
newsbusters.org - 10/26/2009
'60 Minutes': Medicare Fraud Raises 'Troubling Questions About Our Government's Ability to ...
— newsbusters.org — "60 Minutes" did a fabulous exposé Sunday on Medicare fraud that should be required viewing for all... people who support a government run healthcare program in this country. The facts and figures presented by CBS's Steve Kroft were ... (more) '60 Minutes': Medicare Fraud Raises 'Troubling Questions ...

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commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 29 days ago
The Medicare Fraud Expansion Act
— commonsensewonder.blogspot.com — It's amazing how on almost every page of this healthcare reform bill there is something to get... upset about. On page 29 it says that insurers cannot rescind someone's insurance in either the indivudual or group markets unless there is clear and convincing evidence of fraud AND ONLY AFTER external ... (more) The Medicare Fraud Expansion Act
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commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 27 days ago
Don't confuse the lefties with facts, they just don't care
— commonsensewonder.blogspot.com — Annual Medicare Fraud: $60 Billion; Annual Profits of Top Ten Insurance Companies: $8 billion As 60 Minutes... reported last week, Medicare fraud is rampant and has now replaced the cocaine (ahem) business as the major criminal activity in South Florida . Both 60 Minutes and the Washington Post ... (more) Don't confuse the lefties with facts, they just don't care
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Commonsense & Wonder:  Why doesn't Obama fix this first?

Weekly Standard Blog:  Annual Medicare Fraud: $60 Billion; Annual Pofits of Top Ten Insurance Companies: $8 billion

Articles on National Review Online:  Medicare: A Glimpse of the Future? -- By: Deroy Murdock

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Why doesn't Obama fix this first?
Commonsense & Wonder — Medicare Fraud: A $60 Billion Crime

Annual Medicare Fraud: $60 Billion; Annual Pofits of Top Ten Insurance Companies: $8 billion
Weekly Standard Blog — ... As 60 Minutes reported last week, Medicare fraud is rampant and has now replaced the cocaine (ahem) business as the major criminal activity in South Florida. Both 60 Minutes and the Washington Post ...

Don't confuse the lefties with facts, they just don't care
Commonsense & Wonder — ... As 60 Minutes reported last week, Medicare fraud is rampant and has now replaced the cocaine (ahem) business as the major criminal activity in South Florida. Both 60 Minutes and the Washington Post ...

Medicare: A Glimpse of the Future? -- By: Deroy Murdock
Articles on National Review Online — ... budget. “Rather than stealing $100,000 or $200,000,” federal prosecutor Kirk Ogrosky said on October 25’s 60 Minutes, criminals “can steal $100 million.” ...

Laura Hollis: We Have Been Betrayed
TownHall Latest columns — ... and inability to prevent fraud . But as it has done with every other fiscally failed policy it has created, Congress never admits its errors; it simply sticks its grubby hands into our pockets and takes more. Since January, this Congress has passed an $800 billion “stimulus” bill that is now even lampooned by ...

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