Today, health care fraud is all within
the above the in the news. Presently there Right now there generally there
undoubtedly is fraud in health care. A similar is Precisely the same is Similar
is true for each for each and every business or effort touched by human hands, e.
g. banking, credit, insurance, politics, and so forth There is no question that
physicians who abuse their position and our trust of taking are thieving are
piracy are a problem. Therefore are Thus are consequently are those from other professions
who the real genuine same.
Why does health care fraud appear to
get the 'lions-share' of attention? Could it be that it is the perfect vehicle
to drive agendas for divergent groupings where taxpayers, health care consumers
and health attention providers are dupes in a health care fraudulence shell-game
operated with 'sleight-of-hand' precision?
Take a nearer a better a deeper look
and one locates this is not a game-of-chance. Taxpayers, consumers and
providers always lose because the issue the situation the condition with health
treatment fraud is not only not merely not simply the fraud, but it is that our
government and insurers use the scams problem to help to increase agendas while
at the same time fail to be responsible and take responsibility for a fraud
problem they facilitate and allow to flourish.
Astronomical Cost Estimations Quotes
What better way to report on fraud
then to tout fraud cost estimates, e. g.
- "Fraud
perpetrated against both public and private health plans costs between $72 and $220
billion yearly each year every year, increasing the price of the expense of the
price tag on medical treatment and health insurance and undermining public
trust in our health care system... It is no much longer a bit longer a secret
that scams represents one of the quickest growing and most costly types of
kinds of varieties of crime in America today... We pay these costs as people
who pay tax and through higher health insurance premiums... We must be
proactive in coping with healthcare medical care medical fraud and maltreatment...
We should we have towel need to also ensure that police force has the tools
that it must has to should prevent stop, detect, and punish health care fraud.
"[Senator Ted Kaufman (D-DE), 10/28/09 press release]
- The General
Accounting Workplace Business office (GAO) estimates that fraudulence in
healthcare ranges from $60 billion to $600 billion per year - or anywhere
between 3% and 10% of the $2 trillion health treatment proper care attention
budget. [Health Attention Finance News reports, 10/2/09] The GAO is the
investigative arm of Congress.
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