Originally Posted by NJblue

The fact that laws already exist against fraud in the Medicare field and that fraud is still rampant is what makes me very nervous about the Obama plan for health "reform". By expanding government health insurance to potentially everyone (medicare on steroids), we will be exposing ourselves to fraud on steroids. Yet Obama claims that he will pay for 2/3 of his program be savings in Medicare including elimination of fraud. If government can not run a medical insurance program for a subset of the population without rampant waste and fraud, how can we expect it to run a program that encompasses the broad population without even greater fraud?

His promise to find savings in Medicare rings a bit hollow when he also said that we was going to wring savings out of every government agency. His efforts resulted in savings so small that they are lost in rounding.