PJM ate my reply to this. Probably because I had too many links to stories of Medicare fraud.

Anyway, speaking of crack:

Mafia, violent criminals turn to Medicare fraud

“Building a Medicare fraud scam is far safer than dealing in crack or dealing in stolen cars, and it’s far more lucrative,” said Lewis Morris, lead attorney at the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general’s office.

Maybe that should be ObamaCare’s slogan, “So Easy To Defraud, A Former Crack Dealer Can Do It!”

Medicare has been a smashing success. And Obama Care is going to model the public option similarly. And it’s going to pass and there isn’t a damn thing you can do about it.

When I read this, immediately the lyrics to the song “It’s My Party (And I’ll Cry If I Want To)” came to mind. You are just like a little girl, in your foot-stamping anger and fawning obsequiousness, so the image fits. When I read your posts, I feel the same kind of combination of loathing and pity that old school European explorers did when they came across native tribes who’d been living in their own filth for thousands of years.

You remind me of a pesky fly. Now shoo fly. Your guy lost.

You remind me of a fly’s favorite meal. In our system, elections aren’t the end of politics, they are simply a weigh-station in a continuous stream of political maneuvering. Perhaps you’d be happier in a totalitarian state where there is no politics.

Did it ever occur to you that I don’t care about either of these points, the second of which is highly debatable, since he won by a single-digit % margin. Hardly a “landslide”.

“Of $34 billion annually spent by the Medi-Cal program for health care for some 7 million poor Californians, state officials estimate that as much as 40 percent or nearly $14 billion is stolen in fraud…” [LA Daily News]

Put the crack pipe away. A ludicrous claim with no evidence, none, to substantiate it.

Medicare has been a smashing success. And Obama Care is going to model the public option similarly. And it’s going to pass and there isn’t a damn thing you can do about it.

Did it ever occur to you that Obama ran on reforming health care and won in a landslide. Does it not make any sense to you that Obama follows through with his campaign promise.

You remind me of a pesky fly. Now shoo fly. Your guy lost.

Ugh. Man, you and David S are hitting those talking points hard today. Must be payday at Axelturfer’s Inc.

http://www.scrivener.net/2009/07/can-nationalized-health-care-reduce.html

The Obama administration claims a critical reason to move to nationalized health care is to reduce rising health care costs that otherwise project to grow so great as to threaten the very solvency of the US government as soon as 20-odd years from now (which is true enough!)

These are reports of 40% fraud in Medicaid — not “inefficient medical procedures”, but f-r-a-u-d and abuse — from coast-to-coast, or at least on both coasts, 3,000 miles apart. (Remarkable consistency!) Total Medicaid fraud is estimated to be in the deca-billions, nobody really knows the exact number obviously.

This analysis pertains to Social Security, but the numbers used are almost identical to your 1.6% of GDP. Read it and weep.

How “tiny” is a 1.9% of GDP hole in the budget? And the revenue increase needed to plug it?

Anybody who uses the word “tiny” to describes 1.9% of GDP hole in the budget, requiring a 17% across-the-board income tax increase, is trying to sell you a bill of goods. No tax increase close to this large has been enacted since the end of World War II.

You might be selling a bill of goods, but I’m not buying.