Waste cleanup will pay the way

Reuters is reporting on an article today stating that Medicare wastes up to $800 billion a year. $800 billion a year. While the Congress frets over health care reform that could cost $1 trillion over 10 years, we could be tossing away 8 times that amount over the same period in Medicare waste. Wow. Imagine what could be done if you could cut that waste to $100 billion a year. $700 billion a year to play with. You could actually do Medicare for all (single payer). You could reduce the deficit. You could fix Social Security.

60 Minutes even ran a story on how easy it is to do fraud in Medicare.

Of course, this is proof that government can't be trusted to run these programs because look at the waste! Also, any cuts to Medicare either by cutting funding or trying to implement programs that would reduce waste will be interpreted by Republicans as rationing care. It's all bunk. I would agree with you if we were funding the fraud divisions of Medicare properly and they weren't catching this stuff. But the fact is, fraud detection is not funded properly and the teams are very small.

FIX THIS NOW!!!