We already know how inefficient and wasteful the
federal government is. Here is another
stat to emphasize the amount of known fraud that persists through Medicare:
Medicare paid $23
million for dead patients in 2011 and $29 million for drug benefits for illegal
immigrants from 2009 to 2011, according to a report Thursday from the Health
and Human Services inspector general.
The investigators said Medicare has
safeguards to try to stop payments to dead patients, but it still ended up
sending out the $23 million anyway.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS) — the same agency that is struggling to fix the
broken Obamacare website — acknowledged the problems and said it will try to
take steps to fix them.
And these central
planners want to take over the whole health care system? God forbid.
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