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Waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare (Original Post) malaise Jul 2012 OP
Every dollar saved is a dollar that can be spent to produced something of real 2on2u Jul 2012 #1
Medicare fraud is portrayed by the right as a bunch of slackers getting bennies they don't.... Scuba Jul 2012 #2
There have been huge busts since Obama took over malaise Jul 2012 #3
problem with that amfortas the hippie Jul 2012 #4
 

2on2u

(1,843 posts)
1. Every dollar saved is a dollar that can be spent to produced something of real
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 06:36 AM
Jul 2012

value for those who truly need it.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
2. Medicare fraud is portrayed by the right as a bunch of slackers getting bennies they don't....
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 07:23 AM
Jul 2012

... deserve. In actuality it's guys like Florida Governor Rick Scott who are defrauding the government.

4. problem with that
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 09:54 AM
Jul 2012

...with the google results....is that few of these articles, and fewer of the Inspector General Reports, regarding "waste fraud and abuse", distinguish between large, organised fraud, corporate and other business related fraud, on the one hand...and the individual fraud, that is the specific Target of the Meme(welfare queen).
The various IG's define waste, abuse and fraud, very specifically...but their reports(the one's I've perused) don't make that distinction, either.
Thus, the Right can point to "$4.6 Billion Dollars in Welfare Fraud!!!!"...without having any actual evidence that it's the proverbial "crack smoking whores under a bridge", are to blame for any significant portion of that very large number.

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