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Is the U. S. Losing $500+ Billion Annually to Fraud?
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (168+ words) The U. S. government has been losing up to half a trillion taxpayer dollars just to fraud for the past five years, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. Westbrooks testified that GAO found that for fiscal years 2018 through 2022, the…...
The $196 Billion Question: Where Did California's Medi-Cal Money Go?
2+ week, 2+ day ago (670+ words) What do you get when you cross the Corleone crime family with the Sopranos pulling off a heist even bigger than the Lucchese crime family's multimillion-dollar Lufthansa caper in 1978? I dunno, but it's got nothin' on California." If you haven't…...
Have We Become so Cynical, so Jaded, That $9 Billion in Fraud Against the Taxpayer Isn't a Huge Issue?
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (560+ words) I admit to being a fuddy-duddy, a curmudgeon, an old fogy when it comes to the public purse. I'll be 72 on Sunday (cash gifts only, please). I cut my teeth in politics by writing about the deficit, arguing that a…...
Hospitals Are Allowing Foreign Governments to Exploit a U. S. Patient Protection Law
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (447+ words) When Congress passed the No Surprises Act (NSA), the goal was clear: protect American patients from outrageous surprise medical bills. .. . Hospitals Are Allowing Foreign Governments to Exploit a U. S. Patient Protection Law When Congress passed the No Surprises Act (NSA), the…...
Dr. Oz Says Medicare Vulnerable to Fraud. All Socialistic Welfare Is Inherently Fraud-Prone.
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (321+ words) I'm shocked " shocked! A Trump administration official has admitted that the Medicare/Medicaid system is inherently vulnerable to fraud, but that is true of every single socialistic welfare-type program that the federal government or state governments have. Speaking to The…...
Medicare Administrator Dr. Oz: Minnesota Fraud "Tip of the Iceberg, Cuban Govt Implicated
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (355+ words) The Trump administration's chief'for Medicare and Medicaid is warning that the massive fraud network in Minnesota barely lifts a corner of the veil from America's fraud problem. The Cuban government could even be part of the problem. Gavin Newsom and…...
The Amount of Taxpayer Dollars We Lose to Fraud Is Staggering
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (493+ words) The scandal surrounding Somali-linked welfare fraud in Minnesota has been festering for more than a decade. For years, it lingered as an open secret, quietly discussed and carefully avoided. That era has ended. The Trump administration is going to turn…...