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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by DANmode on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:21PM (#36923563)
Medicare isn't losing most of that money to their own administrators out of their back door; it's being taken by doctors, users.
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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by Manuel_D on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:13PM (#36924073)
And likewise, the defense department is losing money primarily on overpriced contracts, not DoD personnel wiring money to their own bank accounts.
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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by DANmode on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:41PM (#36926864)
No, they get it on the back end in the form of (sometimes obfuscated) kickbacks.
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Re:Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force com... by dmix on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:58AM (#36927962)
Overpriced contracts sounds like something easily accounted for. This is stuff that's literally 'missing' during audits by teams of professional accountants.
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