Comparison of House & Senate Health Bills

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Medical/Medicare does a fairly decent job of rooting out who can and can't pay,

Let's throw Medicaid and all the other Governement programs into that statement as well.

Like I said, I think the Gov does a decent job considering the huge numbers of folks it has to deal with. Significant fraud? Depends on the definition of significant of course. We know there are many folks on disability, for instance, that should be not be on it. Those numbers will increase as the economy continues to deteriorate. As well fraud across the board in all areas.

As far as Medicare is concerned the number of personel assigned to root out fraud is tiny compared to the number of investigations they want to carry out. They know about fraud in many instances but can't investigate due to limited number of personel.

We need to significantly increase the number's of investigators actively pursuing fraud in many areas. I believe the dollars saved would more than pay for the expansion.