Just as the Dems are trying to nationalize healthcare, within the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) is out with a new effort to highlight the rampant waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid — and just how bad an idea it would be to simply create a far bigger Medicare-for-all system. His Medi-Fraud Alert and blog has some eyepopping facts and figures — some estimates are as high as $500 billion per year in healthcare fraud. Major taxpayer $$$ down the drain. The Roskam quote: “When dead doctors, illegal immigrants, and convicted repeat offenders are filing medical claims, and getting paid by the U.S. taxpayer, we have an urgent problem on our hands…” And indeed the the Medi-Fraud Of The Day examples on his blog have some pretty ridiculous stories of crooks defrauding the American taxpayer –day in and day out. No wonder Obama doesn’t want his own family on the public plan.
