The federal government is too BIG – hands out $1 BILLION to dead people

Radio Vice Online ^ | Oct. 29, 2010 | Steve McGough

[Steve495]

They don’t just see dead people, they give them cash, and lots of cash. During the last decade, about $1 billion has been handed out by the federal government to the dead. Subsidies, prescription drugs, wheelchairs, and payments for heating bills are just the start. Medicare even paid $92 million for treatments prescribed by dead physicians.

[ClearCase_guy]

When you run a Trillion Dollar Deficit, you’re bound to make a 0.1% error like this. No biggie. [/s]

[blackdog]

Judging by how much is spent on those last weeks of end of life care, I'm not at all surprised. Typically they are six months behind in just processing claims.,ie, shuffling them around to kill time and you.

I'd expect that lag time to generate a much higher number of WIP payouts even though the patient is dead.

[UCANSEE2]

Government Rebuttal:

It’s not our fault. We just have enough people (government employees) and the technology (say... computers hooked up to a central communications interface) to do the job.

If you will just accept some more taxes(Debt), we will create some more agencies, hire some more employees, and buy some better typewriters. We promise that we will improve detection of these expired persons.

(as long as you don’t try to hold us to our word.)

[eyeamok]

So we cant even give wheelchairs to dead people, how are they supposed to get around?? and why can’t we pay for heating bills of dead people, it does get pretty cold 6 feet underground, bunch of heartless people.

[Steve495]

Yeah, then when we provide the federal government with the extra resources - i.e. more tax dollars - to fund all the stuff they need to fix the issue.

Then we pay out $250 billion to dead people during the next decade as compared to $100 billion last decade.

Their answer to that? Oh, just think HOW BAD it would be if you did not give us all of the resources (more tax dollars) to solve the issue!

[blackdog]

Perfect reasoni chip implant every person on medicare. When their metrics of function stop, ACCOUNT CLOSED!

Once that is accepted, so too will the DMV, Banks, Social Security Department, and the IRS.

If you're living too well and too long, the chip can remotely disperse neurotoxins or cardiotoxins into your bloodstream in order to balance the budget. Everyone gets abot 26 weeks after they file for social security.......Then BAM! Unless you're a registered democrat. Then you get extensions on a behavioral basis at the voting booth.

[blackdog]

“We created or saved dead people, by six million last year with the new stimulus package”

[rockinqsranch]

A reflection upon the efficiency of the entrenched Liberal, Leftist bureaucrats partying, and playing BIG GOVERNMENT BIGWIGS at the expense of The Commoners.