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Take one instance and deliver Congressman Issa: Medicaid fraud
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by YankeeJim | January 4, 2011 at 02:58 am
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Making the claim that he can employ his investigative powers to save taxpayers $200 billion, I say go ahead. Get the first $125 billion you claim from Medicaid fraud. Show me the money.
“"We can save $125 billion in simply not giving out money to Medicare recipients that don't exist for procedures that didn't happen," Issa said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "These are real dollars. Ten percent of the deficit goes out in wasted money - money that doesn't get one person health care in Medicare."”
“Issa says Obama administration is 'one of most corrupt'
U.S.'s Issa Plans to Focus on Greater Fed Transparency
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, talks about the need to ensure the Federal Reserve is more transparent in its actions. Issa, a California Republican speaking with Peter Cook on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack," also discusses tax policy and his willingness to work with President Barack Obama. (Source: Bloomberg)
By Philip Rucker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 2, 2011; 7:33 PM
The Republican congressman who is taking over responsibility for congressional oversight called President Obama's administration "one of the most corrupt administrations" on Sunday and predicted that the investigations he is planning over the next two years could result in about $200 billion in savings for U.S. taxpayers.”
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at 14:20 on January 4th, 2011
Wow, what time in history since its inception has there Not been fraud in Medicare/Medicaid system?This problem has been going on for years and years, not just since President Obama entered office. This accusation and his willingness to blame one man for many "physicians" fraudulent charges on these health care systems is simply ignorant. Mr. Issa, I do not see President Obama filing for medicaid/medicare payments. This comes from hospitals of every type and physicians. Get your facts straight. While you are at it clean up the fraud that has been going on in food stamps, SSI and SSD for many, many years. One way to save money would be the attorneys that represent SSI and SSD recipients by just turning in paperwork that the patient has filled out and copies from physicians, hospitals, etc. Doing this automatically gives them up to $5800.00 from SSI and SSD for doing what? Sitting in a chair while a Judge yet again reviews their paperwork.Take a look around you before you run your trap actually do some investigation of how ever many years back you can go. Not just point out it is the current administrations fault. It is no administrations fault in actuality. It is our fellow Americans fault, giving away money to fraudulent claims. Start where the facts are found, who is making the fraudulent claims? Start where the fraud actually is happening.
at 02:52 on January 5th, 2011
You have captured the central theme quite well, Squeegie: Simple Ignorance or Simply Ignorant.
The Republican Party is the party of simple ignorance appealing of course to the simply ignorant. Keep it simple, stupid.