One estimate states that fraud and abuse cost Medicare and Medicaid about $33 billion each year. The government cannot run these programs efficiently, so why is there so much interest in going to Universal Healthcare?

We also see how the government runs the Veterns Administration with the current problems in the news. Is this really what everyone wants?

These articles show the idiots that got caught. How many never get caught? Don’t you think universal healthcare will be the same?

Fraud Articles:

http://www.ncpa.org/health/pdh5.html

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MI_MEDICARE_FRAUD_MIOL-?SITE=MITRA&SECTION=HOME

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/16840155.htm

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/16/health/main549643.shtml

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070215/news_1n15region.html

anthonyinkc – I have not see you comment on this info. You said in another question that these programs where so efficient. Thus this question is really aimed at your last answer.

physician billing fraud

Hillary is the leading expert on Universal Health care in the USA. As a First Lady she outlined a brilliant program — but it didn’t not pass. That’s not a friggin failure.

I’ve always learned when something is the right, don’t give up. So to listen to people that really are so nasty, and seem to have a limited knowledge of political history say, Hillary is the expert and one who will make Universal Health Care happen and make it affordable. Obama is a copy cat.

Obama will lose the GE. A legitimate Black candidate who really has worked hard for people in the USA will come up. Obama will be an insignificant Senator then fade into oblivion.

Sometimes charismatic people who are basically all ego and strategy with no real commitment to help people prevail — Bush. Obama wants to be Bush. I want change, and Obama is a fraud.

poor people are already covered
old people are already covered
uninsured people that don’t pay their bills (yeah we cover them too)

So what’s so horrible about a universal health care plan? We in essense already have that…. just with a really bad paperwork problem that raises the costs even more and makes fraud easier.
Who said anything about me? My family has coverage from my husbands job luckily. And we are doing just fine without any help from the government or running up our credit.
The problem with the government run hospitals now is that the vast majority of citizens never see them and unless they make it to the news the politicians don’t pay any attention to them either.