Dead Patients and Illegal Aliens Scam Medicare

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.

Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/31/medicare-paid-millions-dead-patients-illegals/#ixzz2jRhaiEsu