chuckafir

I used to work for a company whose primary line of business was providing analytical support for state Attorneys General with Medicare and Medicaid fraud trials. The biggest issues were, beyond a shadow of a doubt, known and established healthcare companies knowingly breaking the law: major pharmaceutical companies overcharging for prescription drugs, healthcare providers receiving kickbacks for prescribing drugs or medical devices, doctors upcoding procedures, etc. As fascinating as the criminals and schemes described in the article are, organizations created deliberately for fraud are not where the most fraud is occurring. It's large, "legitimate" businesses sucking at the blood of both their patients and the American taxpayers.