“Washington (CNN) -- More than 100 people have been charged and an estimated $450 million in false billings uncovered by federal agents in a nationwide operation that authorities say is the largest bust in recent history.
Top law enforcement officials announced the charges were lodged in seven metropolitan areas, capping an investigation of several months into efforts to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health programs.
At least 91 of the defendants in the case have been taken into custody following an early morning roundup and the execution of 20 search warrants, the officials said.
In Miami, 59 people were charged. Seven defendants were charged in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, nine were charged in Houston, eight were charged in Los Angeles, 22 were charged in Detroit, one was charged in Chicago and one in Tampa…”
Well it is about time. But it is to little and to late.
The amount of Medicare and Medicaid fraud is massive. Doctors and other health care corporations are stealing billions of dollars.
If we add more federal agents to this sort investigation it does not cost us money. It saves us money.
The problem is not old people on Medicare or poor people on Medicaid. They are not the crooks. The crooks are “doctors” and lawyers and medical corporations.
The Republican Governor of Florida is just one sample of the fraud and crime taking place in the United States.
“…In 1987, at age 34, he co-founded Columbia Hospital Corporation with two business partners; this merged with Hospital Corporation of America in 1989 to form Columbia/HCA and eventually became the largest private for-profit health care company in the U.S. He resigned as Chief Executive of Columbia/HCA in 1997 amid a controversy over the company's business and Medicare billing practices; the company ultimately admitted to fourteen felonies and agreed to pay the federal government over $600 million; Scott was not implicated. Scott later became a venture capitalist…”
A handful of these people get arrested from time to time. So the FBI and the government can take credit for doing something. I wonder how often these arrests just happen to take place before an election?
Do you get the picture. A guy is the head of a massive corporation that steals billions of dollars from the American people and nothing happens to him. Well something happens to him he get elected the Republican Governor of Florida.
Some of you may remember that when I was living in Orlando (FL) that I took a job with a contract guard company. They were so happy when I walked in the door.
They had the contract to provide security for a Columbia/HCA hospital.
So they put me in charge and sent me out to the Columbia/HCA hospital.
I had to work there a few months. It was the worst hospital I have even seen. They could do nothing correct. I guess the only thing that a Columbia/HCA do is steal money.
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