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"60 Minutes" to Take on Medicare/Medicaid Fraud

By Philip Klein on 10.23.09 @ 1:40PM

On the main site today, I have a piece up about how the rampant fraud in Medicare and Medicaid undermines the Democrats' argument that we need a new government-run health program to increase efficiency. This Sunday, "60 Minutes" will tackle the issue, according to the CBS site:

MEDICARE/MEDICAID FRAUD - Medicare and Medicaid fraudsters are cheating U.S. taxpayers out of an estimated $90 billion a year using a billing scam that is surprisingly easy to execute. Steve Kroft investigates. Ira Rosen and Joel Bach are the producers.

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DrTomVoter| 10.23.09 @ 1:57PM

What a nice convenient number. Let's see $90 x 10 years = $900B, in the realm of what Obamacare is alledged to cost. Problem solved! Details on eliminating the perpetually elusive fraud to follow later. Much, much, much later, if at all.

BigJava| 10.23.09 @ 2:38PM

Let's see, 60 Minutes has been doing stories
about Medicare/Medicaid fraud for how many DECADES now???!!!

Eric Cartman| 10.23.09 @ 6:23PM

Let's look at this equation:
Obama is having problems with his Obamacare bill. +
Nancy doesn't have the votes for the public option. +
Obama getting snarky with Fox News. +
Big percentage of Americans don't want Obamacare = Puff piece and examinations on why Obamacare will work better than medicare/medicaid and why we should support it.

Liberal Reader| 10.23.09 @ 6:33PM

60 Minutes to take up Medicare and Medicaid Fraud?

Impossible. 60 Minutes is part of the liberal conspiracy to destroy America.

Next thing you'll want us to believe is that the major news broadcasters are sticking up for Fox News!

Then ... and this will be a REAL joke ... you'll try to get us to believe that lib media organizations COMPETE with one another!

Ha! Ha!

That's a good one Klein!

What will they dream up next at the American Spectator?

blackberry cases| 10.23.09 @ 9:16PM

Next thing you'll want us to believe is that the major news broadcasters are sticking up for Fox News! ed hardy shirt

DG in GA| 10.24.09 @ 12:30PM

It will be interesting to see how "60 Minutes" manages to hype the Obama Plan for cleaning up the Medicare/Medicaid fraud. They can't possibly do a truthful, unbiased story about this during the healthcare debate!

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