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Dozens Arrested In Medicare Fraud Busts Across US
AP via Yahoo News ^ | 29 July 2009 | Kelli Kennedy

Posted on 07/29/2009 8:18:07 PM PDT by edpc

MIAMI – Federal authorities arrested more than 30 suspects, including doctors, and were seeking others in a major Medicare fraud bust Wednesday in New York, Louisiana, Boston and Houston, targeting scams such as "arthritis kits" — expensive braces that many patients never used.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arthritis; fraud; healthcare; medicare; scams
How convenient for a story like this to break during the national healthcare negotiations. Not surprising these busts and fraudulent activities were carried out in liberal areas.
1 posted on 07/29/2009 8:18:08 PM PDT by edpc
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To: edpc

Is 0bama going to claim the FBI agents were acting stupidly and in a racist manner because they arrested a “man of color”?


2 posted on 07/29/2009 8:21:00 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: edpc

Medicare is so rife with waste, fraud and abuse which is one of the reasons why the friggin government Medicare Program is near bankruptcy and now these same asswipes want to completely take over and control all the medical and healthcare in the country? Hah! The same way they made AMTRAK PROFITABLE. And the POST OFFICE. And SOCIAL SECURITY. And...well, you get the idea...


3 posted on 07/29/2009 8:22:59 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: edpc

The bigger the bureaucracy the easier to scam. It will become endemic. The only way anybody will get anything in 10 years is to “have a friend” somewhere.

Remember years ago in the old USSR when periodically they’d shoot a plant manager because he actually got something done.

Our childrens’ futures: blackmarket bribes, payoffs, and public executions for “crimes against the state.”


4 posted on 07/29/2009 8:27:03 PM PDT by Bhoy
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To: Ev Reeman

My question for my Congressmen....

“Given the struggles you’ve had with Medicaid, VA, Native American health programs, etc.... how do you think that the Federal Government has the credibility to do more?”


5 posted on 07/29/2009 8:27:12 PM PDT by TWohlford
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Did anyone get the scooter store???

All you need is some halfa** doctor to sign and it's on the way. Don't have a doctor will give you the names of ones that accept our paid holidays. http://www.thescooterstore.com/

6 posted on 07/29/2009 8:59:38 PM PDT by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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