ANOTHER STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Medicare fraud runs into the tens of billions every year and I'm glad to see that the Obama Administration is working on this problem.

Doctors, nurses joined Medicare scam, U.S. says
Fri Jul 16, 2010 12:47pm EDT
By Jane Sutton

MIAMI, July 16 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities charged 94 doctors, nurses and clinic owners with scheming to defraud the taxpayer-funded Medicare program out of $251 million, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday.

He said 36 defendants had been arrested so far in five cities in "the largest federal healthcare fraud take-down in our nation's history."

Fraud bleeds $60 billion a year from the Medicare program and South Florida is regarded as the national epicenter, accounting for a third of U.S. healthcare fraud prosecutions.