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steelmania75 Donating Member (836 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 03:18 PM
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Another problem of health that's not getting attention: Healthcare Fraud
Healthcare fraud rises costs of healthcare, and increases Social Security and Medicare dramatically.
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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 03:21 PM
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1. It not like you can't tell where it is
They usually advertise heavily. Damn scooter store talked nearly everyone at my mother's retirement community into a power scooter. "It's such a far walk to the main building, wouldn't you rather ride in comfort?" Medicare paid for it.
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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 03:47 PM
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2. I know two families in the past week
who have had to confront fraud at two separate rehab centers. Seems the lying bastards want to misrepresent the progress and/or need for furter rehab care - and they want to make families feel guilty for making long term living arrangements in assisted living centers before those paid rehab days are all used up.

People who are involved in facilitating or perpetrating medical fraud should be prohibited from ever again working in the medical profession.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 03:50 PM
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3. I think you mean health insurance fraud. n/t
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 03:50 PM
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4. People with real disabilities are under attack in the name of "fighting fraud"
notably in Kolly-four-knee-ya, where Der Gropenfuhrer is now requiring recipients as well as providers of In-Home Supportive Services to be fingerprinted as though they were common criminals. :grr: :banghead:
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 03:54 PM
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5. Fraud follows profit as night follows day.
It is inevitable and it can only be minimized by removing the profit motive from health care.


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