THE FRAUD IN USA MEDICAL WORLD
Sunday, 24th of October 2009. 60 Minutes had a segment on the
HUGE, and I mean HUGE, FRAUD in the Medicare, Medicade systems of
the USA. The interviews and what was in plain sight revealed
would blow your mind, just an unbelievable white collar industry
of "fraud" by no degree needed, people billing the USA Government
for medical procedures and medical things like artificial arms
and legs. One guy caught and now serving a 12 year jail sentence,
told a lot of how its is done. He was milking the USA Medicare
system 20 to 30 thousand dollars a month. He also said that of
the two or three thousand "companies" in just Florida (where he
milked the Government taxpayers) MOST of them, 90% he claimed
were in the "fraud" business per the medical world of the USA. He
revealed it was not hard to get "personal people" names,
addresses, numbers etc. to use for the fraud scam. He said it was
not hard at all to get into this white collar fraud game.
The Government ... interviewed, the same old story, not enough
workers employed in catching these fraud people. The Government
pays out over 400 BILLION dollars a year to .... all including
the fraud company guys, pretending to be legitimate companies,
invoicing for this or that on behalf of supposed people.
Some people even called the Government to tell them people were
billing with their name for things not done or not needed. The
Government would reply with a thank you and we'll look into it,
but never did. The same story .... not enough people employed to
"look into" the fraud.
My oh my, as they might say, only in the USA.
I guess there are things to change in the USA "medical system."
As the man at the end of 60 Minutes ... Rooney said, "The way the
USA Medical system is today, there is need for change, for the
way it is today makes me sick."
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Also on this 60 Minutes program:
Tyler Perry .... never heard of him? Most in North America have
not, a black guy who went to Hollywood with his ideas on movies
and was quickly rejected. So he went it alone. Now he is burning
Hollywood to the ground, as a soon BILLIONAIRE movie maker, all
owned by himself, doing it his way, with no Hollywood fellows to
tell him what and when and how to do it. Oprah has given him air,
and says he's a force to be reckoned with. He grew up in the
squaller of New Orleans, with a father that regularly beat his
mother and him. Memories he's has to not think about. He went to
church with his Mom, saw her smile and be happy for that one day
of the week. He wanted to know more about this Jesus that made
his mother happy. You see why Hollywood rejected him. Now you
know the rest of the story.
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And also on this 60 Minutes program:
Did you know that EPILEPSY (a condition in which a person has
intermittent attacks of disordered brain function, usu, causing
loss of awareness or consciousness and sometimes convulsions -
Canadian Dictionary) is a much larger problem than most ever
realize. A lot of "war veterans" with injuries, come home to
rehabilitation and develop epilepsy. Now they have invented a
device that goes on the brain to prevent or stop the convultions
coming on. It is working very well they say in many patients.
Well the wonders that the human mind can invent and create ....
and they say we evolved .... give me a break!
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To be continued
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