http://www.thefreemanonline.org/in-brief/government-misspent-98-billion-last-fiscal-year/ Ideas on Liberty Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:28:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/in-brief/government-misspent-98-billion-last-fiscal-year/comment-page-1/#comment-19356 joebanana Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:21:58 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13795#comment-19356 Kinda like the billions of dollars on pallets they lost in Iraq, Duh. Kinda like the billions of dollars on pallets they lost in Iraq, Duh.

]]> http://www.thefreemanonline.org/in-brief/government-misspent-98-billion-last-fiscal-year/comment-page-1/#comment-19181 Fraud, Waste and Abuse in Medicare | www.statehousecall.org Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:56:47 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13795#comment-19181 [...] Sheldon Richman says sarcastically “Yes, a well-worded executive order should do the trick.” $24 billion of the improper payments came from Medicare according to this report; another report over the weekend suggested Medicare lost $47 billion. But the Feds are now saying they are going to count as improper incomplete or illegible documentation, which the Bush administration did not. This then permits them to “multiply by 10 the number of agents and prosecutors targeting fraud in Miami, Los Angeles and other strategic cities where tens of billions of dollars are believed to be lost each year.” These will be claimed as savings … which will be spent on expanded coverage. [...] [...] Sheldon Richman says sarcastically “Yes, a well-worded executive order should do the trick.” $24 billion of the improper payments came from Medicare according to this report; another report over the weekend suggested Medicare lost $47 billion. But the Feds are now saying they are going to count as improper incomplete or illegible documentation, which the Bush administration did not. This then permits them to “multiply by 10 the number of agents and prosecutors targeting fraud in Miami, Los Angeles and other strategic cities where tens of billions of dollars are believed to be lost each year.” These will be claimed as savings … which will be spent on expanded coverage. [...]

]]> http://www.thefreemanonline.org/in-brief/government-misspent-98-billion-last-fiscal-year/comment-page-1/#comment-19171 The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Waste, fraud and abuse Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:33:41 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13795#comment-19171 [...] Sheldon Richman says sarcastically “Yes, a well-worded executive order should do the trick.” $24 billion of the improper payments came from Medicare according to this report; another report over the weekend suggested Medicare lost $47 billion. But the Feds are now saying they are going to count as improper incomplete or illegible documentation, which the Bush administration did not. This then permits them to “multiply by 10 the number of agents and prosecutors targeting fraud in Miami, Los Angeles and other strategic cities where tens of billions of dollars are believed to be lost each year.” These will be claimed as savings … which will be spent on expanded coverage. [...] [...] Sheldon Richman says sarcastically “Yes, a well-worded executive order should do the trick.” $24 billion of the improper payments came from Medicare according to this report; another report over the weekend suggested Medicare lost $47 billion. But the Feds are now saying they are going to count as improper incomplete or illegible documentation, which the Bush administration did not. This then permits them to “multiply by 10 the number of agents and prosecutors targeting fraud in Miami, Los Angeles and other strategic cities where tens of billions of dollars are believed to be lost each year.” These will be claimed as savings … which will be spent on expanded coverage. [...]

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