segment on Medicare should be all the proof needed that we cannot allow the government to control Medicare or any other medical coverage scheme. Most of the segment revolved around Southern Florida, Miami area, and all the fake storefront medical supply companies that are ripping off the taxpayers with phony billing schemes. One disguised former player of medical scams, who was serving a 20 year sentence for his government ripoff, told how easy it is to set up a phony company, get patient lists and bill what he claimed was 20 million dollars personally. The story claimed that the US medicare system is being taken for 60 BILLION dollars annually.

This is no surprise to the government, they admit that Medicare is rife with fraud, and still BO expects the taxpayers to just trust them with our health care dollars. DAH!

You can watch this online at cbs.com. It is amazing. This is the problem with big government and centralized payment of claims.

Originally Posted by gnu

...60 Minutes segment on Medicare should be all the proof needed that we cannot allow the government to control Medicare or any other medical coverage scheme.

Go ahead and keep bashing the current administration and blaming their 9 month tenure for all of our nation's past and present ills. Have you not heard the President say repeatedly that medicare fraud is a major target of health care reform? The guy who stole the 20 million is IN JAIL, and the current administration is chasing after his buddies.

If you are at least willing to admit that health care reform is an important goal, then you've got two choices:
1) Give it to some private companies and let them compete with each other so that we can have a smooth, efficient, low-cost system. (Here's an idea - let's let AIG do it!), or:
2) Have the government run it. Keep supporting leaders who identify abuses and claim they want to fix them and then keep demanding that they do so. (Now of course this would entail admitting that the President might be on the right track about something, and that would fly in the face of everything you've ever said about him.)

So anyway, please tell me. Who would you have run the nation's more efficient health care system?