Isn't this fun stuff to read. One can only imagine the sharks lining up to get their portion from any new health care reform. Medicare fraud is thought to be in the area of $60 Billion a year. Despite repeated warnings in some cases, the Feds managed to ignore it for years. Yes, please do take more of our money only to manage it as if it wasn't your own. Oh, that's right! It isn't. Which has proved to be one of the biggest problems facing government as long as it has existed.
America should be outraged over this. Instead, many Americans will simply gloss over it as business as usual when it comes to the Federal Government. Because they're looking after us, right? What a sad joke.
MIAMI (AP) -- For three years, the federal agency in charge of preventing Medicare fraud repeatedly ignored internal watchdog warnings about swindlers stealing millions of dollars by scamming several programs, documents show.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services received roughly 30 warnings from inspectors over three years during the Bush and Obama administrations but didn't respond to half of them, even after repeated letters, according to records provided to The Associated Press by U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley's office.
A July 2008 warning said organized crime had infiltrated the system and was costing more than $1 million dollars for each phony Medicare provider license the crooks obtained. The letter got no response, Grassley said.

