RE: Medicare as a shining example

Collarchat.com

Home Login Search

RE: Medicare as a shining example

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

All Forums >> [Community Discussions] >> Dungeon of Political and Religious Discussion >> RE: Medicare as a shining example

Page: << < prev 1 2 3 4 [5]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

RE: Medicare as a shining example - 9/9/2009 10:46:44 AM

DomKen

Posts: 19457
Joined: 7/4/2004
From: Chicago, IL
Status: offline

No one knows but to claim that 20% of medicare billing is fraudulent requires some evidence as the article you link to makes clear.

If I had to estimate I'd assume it is somewhere between the 3% figure the industry claims and 10%. The fact is that private insurance is no where near as good as they claim at preventing fraud but 20% is simply to big to go so completely under the radar. There simply aren't enough whistle blowers to convince fraud is that widespread.

(in reply to OrionTheWolf)

Profile

Post #: 81

RE: Medicare as a shining example - 9/10/2009 3:33:13 PM

Mercnbeth

Posts: 11766
Status: offline

~ Fast Reply ~

One thing that was acknowledged from last night from the President. "this plan would eliminate is the hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and fraud"

"Hundreds of Billions of waste and fraud". A disclosre coming from the ultimate Adminstrator of the program.

Would that represent more than 3%?

(in reply to DomKen)

Profile

Post #: 82