Why does Medicare and Medicaid attract leeches?

[srican69]

Day Centers Sprout Up, Luring Fit Elders and Costing Medicaid

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/nyregion/day-centers-lure-fit-elders-and-bill-medicaid.html?

In Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, at the new R & G Social Adult Day Care Center, known locally among elderly immigrants for luring clients with cash and grocery vouchers, most people there for lunch did not stay to eat. Instead, many walked briskly toward the subway carrying bags stuffed with takeout containers, and two elderly men rode away on bicycles with the free food.

Not a wheelchair or walker was in sight at these so-called social adult day care centers. Yet the cost of attendance was indirectly being paid by Medicaid, under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s sweeping redesign of $2 billion in spending on long-term care meant for the impaired elderly and those with disabilities.

Why the fuck to people start gaming well intentioned programs? Because inevitably, people who end up facing a backlash are those who need the services the most....

[villager]

1. I want to know why war spending and Wall Street bailouts attract such leeches

...the really high-rolling ones.

[srican69]

2. I don't think Democrats have either the responsibility or the inclination to defend them. Nt.

[whathehell]

4. Who is "them"?

[srican69]

6. Wall street bailout and wars.

Medicare and Medicaid are our programs and we need to ensure that they aren't being abused. These vital programs serve a vital need and can do without the negative publicity.

[whathehell]

12. Right...Okay then, I would agree with the fact that they have no responsiblity to do that, but

would have to remind you that Democrats DO often support bailouts and wars -- regrettably.

You might be right about the negative pr, but I'm not getting on this particular bandwagon yet...Too many other things
to deal with.

[villager]

11. I think anybody who votes to keep funding such leeches -- like oh so many Democrats -- bears

...absolute responsibility.

[whathehell]

3. Yes, it's a much better question. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Because they believe since it's government money, it really isn't stealing/abuse

of the program. Some believe their taxes paid for it and so they take it.

[AngryAmish]

7. People like to get free stuff

[srican69]

8. i dont have problems with the folks getting free stuff .. My issue is with the operator billing

Medicare/Medicaid.

Heck even I would go and get myself a free sandwich if I could find a source. But the operators are clearly in the wrong - don't you agree?

[AngryAmish]

10. One would have to look at the statute and regulations

[TheKentuckian]

9. Avarice