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To: Alighieri who wrote (536396)	12/14/2009 1:59:17 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578901

So it follows that caring for our elders costs more than Medicare is paying...correct? It follows that Medicare, a fat, bloated, poorly managed government bureaucracy, can't do the job even though they have every conceivable benefit. Kim Brandt, who leads Medicare’s anti-fraud efforts, said some estimate the agency loses up to $80 billion to fraud, though she thinks that number sounds too high Let's see. The person who "leads Medicare's anti-fraud efforts" says, "No, we don't have a problem. We do a GREAT job here." You're an idiot. I mean a T-Total idiot. We know that government health care fraud is a multi-hundred billion dollar problem. That the person in charge of stopping says it is "in control" is no surprise. They'll never stop it because they don't know what causes it. When she appeared on 60M a couple weeks ago, here was HER solution: "We're trying to make the enrollment process more difficult". Keeping in mind that Medicare provider enrollment is already far and way the most complex and inefficient in the business (often requiring 6 months or longer), her solution to fraud is to make it "more difficult". Ha. The problem is that Medicare pays claims that shouldn't be paid while denying claims that shouldn't be denied. They deny twice as many claims as the average private insurer, yet manage to pay claims that are blatantly fraudulent. Only government could f*ck something up this badly.