[denydenydeny]

Leftists have rabbit-ears for hypocrisy because their daily lives are made up almost entirely of hypocritical actions.

[denydenydeny]

Leftists have rabbit-ears for hypocrisy because their daily lives are made up almost entirely of hypocritical actions.

[detective]

Is this supposed to be a big deal? Her husband didn't get free taxpayer money. He was paid for services rendered.

His patients were eligible for Medicaid, so BFD. If he had refused to serve those eligible for Medicaid then people would have had a hissy fit over that.

This is ridiculous. The article doesn't say anything illegal was done. It is just a stupid hit piece.

[bwc2221]

Any conservative can expect to be “Palanized.” But as several FReepers have already stated, the media has thrown everything it has at Sarah Palin and it hasn't been nearly enough.

Will Michele Bachmann be able to stand up to the media onslaught, be able to keep smiling and come out squeaky clean as Sarah has? Only time will tell.

[winner3000]

Using the same logic in the article, there should be a story every day about different Democrat politicians who want to raise taxes, about why they have not offered to pay more than they owe in taxes to the government.

[doc1019]

Palin has been part of the vetting process for years, nothing found ... Just sayin’

[Tamatoa]

So what, nothing here. He is following the current rules and getting compensated for his service. Move along nothing to see or talk about.

[winner3000]

I’m sure Michael “I suck off” considers himself a journalist.

[winner3000]

I’m sure Michael “I suck off” considers himself a journalist.

[Vendome]

137,000 over the course of 6 years amounts to $22,833 per year.

That ain’t squat on a multimillion dollar business.

They say it was for training employees? Fine.

It is mental health and they may have requirements under the law to provide some sort of service or can be expected to provide some sort of service.

Under that scenario I say the government is making a demand that requires the training of employees and the government should absolutely be responsible for remuneration of monies spent to comply with their demand.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Big deal. So he treated patients on Medicaid and took government money for his services.

[cookcounty]

"The $161,000 in payments from the Minnesota Department of Human Services to her husband's clinic appear to contradict some of Michelle Bachmann's public accounts this week when she was first asked about the extent to which her family has benefited from government aid."

So doing business with the government is now "government aid???????" Reporters get stupider every day,

So when Obama was getting paid by government-funded ACORN was he on "government aid?" Was he a welfare queen? Was he on "government aid" when he was a paid spectator in the Senate?

[Texas Songwriter]

Mr. Bachman is a provider for medicare. Are we to expect him not to be paid for his services. Of course, of the $137,000 he was paid, I wonder how much of that went to pay payroll of his employees, FICA, medicare taxes, overhead for his office,(offices?), or any of the myriad of expenses which he must pay to keep his door open to provide services to medicare patients. Perhaps the left believes he should opt out out of that program.

[Brilliant]

So she ought to know, right?

[cpdiii]

The figures were provided to NBC News in response to a Freedom of Information request

I wonder how many Freedom of Information requests NBC did for Obamas records and finances or his political associates before and after his election? I wonder how many Freedom of Information requests that NBC made concerning the tax records of Tim "tax cheat" Geithner? I wonder if NBC did a Freedom of Information request concerning the association of ACORN and Obama, Obama and the Weather Underground, etc. etc. etc.?

Is that the sounds of mute crickets I hear?

[Fester Chugabrew]

$137,000.00? That’s a pittance in view of the bigger picture. Did he receive these funds directly as salary? I seriesly doubt it.

[Plutarch]

So, the MSM can investigate the background of Presidential candidates. I wonder when they are going to get around to investigating the background of the incumbent, and his wife.

Hey Isikoff, how did Michelle lose her law license?

What real work did she do for University of Chicago Hospitals?

Once Michelle left UC, who did all that work that she was being paid so handsomely for?

[Chickensoup]

$137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005,
twenty thousand a year out of a practice that must make ten times that or more.

So what. People accept Medicaid. Believe me he didnt beneift from accepting medicaid, for many practitioners who see a few patients on medicaid, it is essentially charity care when the paperwork is done.

[zerosix]

NBC - How much tax dollars did Obam’s aunt Zituti get from Medicade, SS, Section 8 Housing and food stamp allowances.....as an ILLEGAL ALIEN?????

[Liz]

NO COMPARISON $137,000 for realtime treatment of patients since 2005.

Compared to the blatant Medicare/Aid fraud going on elsewhere. Medicare "mills" in Brooklyn, Miami, Detroit, Houston and Baton Rouge, La.

NY POST---July 2010---EXCERPT A Bay Parkway, Brooklyn medical office used a Soviet-era propaganda poster to silence Russian immigrants about getting kickbacks for letting doctors submit thousands of bogus Medicare claims in their names....... the Russian-language poster prominently hung in the "kickback room" of the medical office where Russian immigrants lined up for illegal payoffs. Also busted were Medicare "mills" elsewhere in Brooklyn, and in Miami, Detroit, Houston and Baton Rouge, La.

By Paul Martinka

Russian poster shushed immigrant partners in Medicare fraud. Insert pic is
a Russian immigrant not too happy about being nailed for allowing doctors to
submit her Medicare account for 3,774 medical services over six years.......
for a fee.

SOURCE: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/hushin_russian_in_klyn_med_fraud_dwMigEMJQtPhYzWlvvIGpM