Feds Arrest Five for $86 million in Medicare and Medicaid Fraud

[From article]

Five people were busted for bilking Medicare and Medicaid in a yearslong, $86 million scam in which they paid kickbacks in order to bill for bogus procedures, an indictment filed in Brooklyn Monday charges.
Aleksandr Pikus, Mark Tsyvin, Maksim Vernik, Denis Satyr and Malvina Yablonskaya are charged with funneling more than $38 million worth of reimbursements on the $86 million in bills through several New York shell companies that purported to provide consulting, marketing and advertising services.



Between 2008 and 2016, the alleged scammers referred customers to medical clinics in exchange for illegal kickbacks, according to papers filed in federal court.
Some of the clinics were run by co-conspirators Oleg Dron, a licensed occupational therapist, and Eduard Noykhovich, a licensed physical therapist, the feds charge.
The group also gave cash to Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries to subject themselves to unnecessary medical services, the feds allege.

http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/feds-bust-five-in-86m-scam-of-medicare-and-medicaid/

Feds bust five in $86M scam of Medicare and Medicaid
By Reuven Fenton, Yijun Wang and Lia Eustachewich
New York Post
June 20, 2016 | 11:04pm

Michigan Cancer Doctor Gave Fraudulent Treatment, Killing Patients. State Ignored Complaint From Nurse

Angela Swantek

http://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/video/nurse-who-first-complained-about-dr-fata-ended-up-working-down-the-hall-602759747663

Nurse Who First Complained About Dr. Fata Ended up Working Down the Hall
Oncology nurse Angela Swantek talks about what happened after Michigan's health department closed the investigation into her complaint against Dr. Fata

White House Bait and Switch Health Care Lies

[From article]
States choosing to expand Medicaid take on additional costs due to more people on their Medicaid rolls. The federal government picks up the additional costs for the first few years, meaning it won’t cost states anything extra. Initially at least.
That’s the bait
Over time, however, the feds pay less of the expansion costs. By 2020, they will only cover 90 percent of the expansion cost, leaving the rest to the states. Assuming they keep their word on the 90 percent promise.
That’s the switch.



[. . .]
Medicaid pays physicians about two-thirds of what Medicare pays. The solution under ObamaCare was to raise the amount doctors get paid under Medicaid to the same level as Medicare.
That’s the bait.
Unfortunately, this was a temporary fix, lasting only two years. Beginning in 2015, doctors saw a 43 percent cut in Medicaid reimbursement.
That’s the switch.
[. . .]
“Medicare reimbursement rates are far too low to cover the costs of high-quality medical services, and Medicaid reimbursement is even worse,” according to Alan Reynolds, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Mayo Clinic wisely did not fall for the ObamaCare Medicaid bait and switch.
[. . .]



Is any of this a surprise? This was all part of ObamaCare from the beginning. Yet at that time, there was no debate and analysis. Few if any Members of Congress read the bill. Democrats rushed the bill into law cheered on by a giddy media.
Now we are left with a mess, confirming Abraham Lincoln’s admonition, “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” The ObamaCare Medicaid bait and switch sure fooled and continues to fool many.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/medicaid_expansion__bait_and_switch.html

January 20, 2016
Medicaid Expansion -- Bait and Switch
By Brian C. Joondeph

U.S. House and Senate Certified Fraudulent Claim They Had Only 45 Employees Each, To Get Exemptions From Health Care Law

Here's an example of why so many people have little respect for politicians and journalists. Instead of embarrassing these greedy members of the elected criminal class (as Noam Chomsky calls them), over paid misguided journalists focus on offensive speech by Donald Trump and the killing of a lion in Zimbabwe, Africa. It shows the depravity of the ruling elite. They cover up for each other and prohibit accountability. The disastrous health care law which made the health care delivery system  worse was made into law without any of the congress no less the president having read it. There was never any concern about improving the health care system. No outrage for the 90,000 persons killed each year due to medical negligence. Instead in the name of socialism insurance companies and the medical professionals got concessions from the politicians and excluded them from the misguided law. Judicial Watch lawyers exposed their lies trying to get more benefits from taxpayer funds. 



[From article]

Both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives certified that they had only 45 employees each in order to sign up for the District of Columbia’s Small Business Exchange. But 12,359 - or 86 percent of the exchange's enrollees - are members of Congress, congressional staff members, and their spouses and dependents, according to an appeal filed with the D.C. Court of Appeals by Judicial Watch.
The public interest law firm announced Monday that it is appealing the February dismissal of its lawsuit challenging congressional participation in the Obamacare exchange even though the D.C. Exchange Act limits enrollment to small companies with 50 or fewer employees.
“Congress obviously has far more than 50 employees,” Judicial Watch attorney Michael Bekesha pointed out in his opening brief. “It has thousands of employees.”



Congress enrolled in the small business exchange when its previous coverage under the Federal Employee Health Benefits plan was terminated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and congressional employees stood to lose thousands of dollars in “employer contributions” if they enrolled in the District’s individual exchange.
According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives both certified that they “employ 50 or fewer full time equivalent employees.”
In October 2013, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a final rule that provides an “employer contribution” covering about three-quarters of the premiums of congressional employees enrolled in the small business exchange starting Jan. 1, 2014.
The OPM rule “allowed at least 12,359 congressional employees and their spouses and dependents to obtain health insurance through the Small Business Exchange…These 12,359 participants represent an astonishing 86% of the Small Business Exchange’s total enrollment,” the appeal states.
Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit last October on behalf of Kirby Vining, a D.C. resident since 1986, who objected to the expenditure of municipal funds to insure congressional employees in an exchange that was established specifically for small employers in the District.
“Congress authored the law [ACA], and is going to rather questionable lengths to avoid compliance with the law it drafted,” Vining said.

[. . .]

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said that allowing Congress to enroll in an exchange meant for small businesses is both “unlawful and unethical.”
“It is an abuse of District taxpayers to use D.C. funds to subsidize illegal health insurance for Congress,” Fitton said in a statement. “It is unlawful and unethical for District officials to use local dollars to participate in Congress’s Obamacare fraud.
“The highest court in the District of Columbia must affirm the right of District taxpayers to protect their monies from being misappropriated by corrupt District officials.”

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/us-house-and-senate-each-said-they-had-only-45-employees-then

U.S. House and Senate Each Said They Had Only 45 Employees--Then Signed Up 12,359 for Insurance on Obamacare 'Small-Business' Exchange
By Barbara Hollingsworth

August 10, 2015 | 3:59 PM EDT

Shocking The Senses, Massachusetts Attorney General Targets Wrongdoers in Massachusetts

[From article]

The MassHealth patients were charged fees as high as $325 for an initial visit, and $150 to $200 for subsequent visits, Healey’s office said, even though they should not have been charged anything. Pro­viders are required by law to only accept payments from MassHealth for services to the plan’s members, according to Healey’s office.
The cash-paying patients also were allowed to skip addiction therapy sessions, and only meet with a doctor once per month, as opposed to MassHealth patients who were required to attend weekly therapy sessions and meet twice a month with a doctor, according to the lawsuit.
“We allege this treatment center knowingly took advantage of patients by forcing­ them to pay exorbitant and unnecessary fees for opiate addiction ser­vices,” Healey said in a statement. “Comprehensive and affordable treatment is critical for those struggling with addiction.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/business/healthcare/2015/04/ag_sues_drug_treatment_center_for_charging_cash_for_services_covered_by

AG sues drug treatment center for charging­ cash for services covered by insurance
Insured patients charged cash for services
Thursday, April 23, 2015
By: O’Ryan Johnson

Boston Herald

Nine NYC Doctors Charged With Medicaid Fraud, Sneakers For "Let me see your Medicaid Card."

New York Post did a feature story about this several years ago. Perhaps they were who alerted the clueless government. 

[From article]
“Free sneakers, shoes and boots today,” Bernard Rorie shouted, standing outside a soup kitchen in East New York, Brooklyn, where he was being recorded by investigators
Mr. Rorie was recruiting homeless people, prosecutors said, and whoever had a valid Medicaid card would be packed into a van and sent to medical clinics around New York City. There, after hours of unnecessary tests and fake diagnoses, the homeless people would be sent off with sneakers — selected from stacks of shoeboxes in the clinics’ basements. The doctors, staff members and billing specialists, meanwhile, would rack up hundreds or thousands of dollars per recruit in false Medicaid claims, prosecutors said.
On Tuesday, nine New York doctors were among 23 people indicted in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn in connection with the sneaker scheme, which the Brooklyn district attorney’s office said made almost $7 million and took advantage of thousands of homeless people.
The charges in the indictment include health fraud, enterprise corruption and money laundering.
[. . .]
“Free sneakers, shoes and boots today,” Bernard Rorie shouted, standing outside a soup kitchen in East New York, Brooklyn, where he was being recorded by investigators
Mr. Rorie was recruiting homeless people, prosecutors said, and whoever had a valid Medicaid card would be packed into a van and sent to medical clinics around New York City. There, after hours of unnecessary tests and fake diagnoses, the homeless people would be sent off with sneakers — selected from stacks of shoeboxes in the clinics’ basements. The doctors, staff members and billing specialists, meanwhile, would rack up hundreds or thousands of dollars per recruit in false Medicaid claims, prosecutors said.
On Tuesday, nine New York doctors were among 23 people indicted in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn in connection with the sneaker scheme, which the Brooklyn district attorney’s office said made almost $7 million and took advantage of thousands of homeless people.
The charges in the indictment include health fraud, enterprise corruption and money laundering.
[. . .]
The doctors in the group made money by, for instance, seeing a patient for four minutes and billing for 30 minutes, or claiming they had reviewed tests when they had not, or simply billing for procedures they had never done, prosecutors said. Some doctors paid Mr. Vainer a referral fee for each recruit, while some split the Medicaid payment with him.
Mr. Vainer made money from the scheme in several ways: He owns medical clinics where the patients were sent; he supplies devices for foot and leg problems; and he had financial arrangements with doctors to whom he sent the recruited homeless patients, prosecutors said.
Mr. Vainer also made money by supplying cheap equipment and billing it to Medicaid as a custom medical device — for instance, supplying a drugstore shoe insert and billing it to Medicaid as a custom orthotic, for which he received about $330.
[. . .]
Some of the doctors involved are affiliated with well-known institutions. Dr. Joseph Grossman, 82, a cardiologist, was a clinical assistant professor of medicine at New York Medical College. The vein surgeon Dr. David Glass, 65, a former assistant chief of surgery at New York Methodist, is an assistant clinical professor at Cornell, according to his website. Dr. Grossman and Dr. Glass pleaded not guilty.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/nyregion/9-new-york-doctors-indicted-in-medicaid-fraud-using-homeless-patients.html?_r=1

9 New York Doctors Are Accused of Defrauding Medicaid Using Homeless People
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD

MARCH 31, 2015

Substantial Fraud In Theft of Medical Information

[From article]
Your medical information is worth 10 times more than your credit card number on the black market.
Last month, the FBI warned healthcare providers to guard against cyber attacks after one of the largest U.S. hospital operators, Community Health Systems Inc, said Chinese hackers had broken into its computer network and stolen the personal information of 4.5 million patients.
[. . .]
Fraudsters use this data to create fake IDs to buy medical equipment or drugs that can be resold, or they combine a patient number with a false provider number and file made-up claims with insurers, according to experts who have investigated cyber attacks on healthcare organizations.
[. . .]
one patient learned that his records at a major hospital chain were compromised after he started receiving bills related to a heart procedure he had not undergone. The man's credentials were also used to buy a mobility scooter and several pieces of medical equipment, racking up tens of thousands of dollars in total fraud.
[. . .]
Fraud involving the Medicare program for seniors and the disabled totaled more than $6 billion in the last two years,

http://news.yahoo.com/medical-record-worth-more-hackers-credit-card-182251915--finance.html

September 24, 2014
By Caroline Humer and Jim Finkle

Yahoo News

Major Medicaid Fraud Ring Busted

[From article]
The feds have criminally charged nearly 50 Russian nationals for allegedly stealing from American taxpayers in a massive Medicaid scam — despite the fact that they are protected by diplomatic immunity.
The Russian diplomats and their families were living lavish New York lifestyles, enjoying exotic vacations and expensive clothing, jewelry and gadgets — all while allegedly lying about their incomes to defraud the US health-care program set up to assist the poor.

http://nypost.com/2013/12/05/russian-diplomats-charged-in-1-5m-medicaid-fraud/

Russian diplomats charged in $1.5M Medicaid fraud
By Rich Calder, Antonio Antenucci and Kevin Fasick
December 5, 2013 | 12:12pm

New York Post

Criminals Preying On Elders Using Obamacare

[From article]
Among the survey's respondents, 10% say they or someone they know has been the victim of a health-care fraud. Ms. Greisman says in many instances, con artists claim—falsely—that the ACA requires Medicare beneficiaries to buy a new policy or Medicare card. Often, they pose as a representative of Medicare or an insurer and ask for personal financial information, such as a Social Security or bank-account number.
[. . .]
Advocates say consumers shouldn't divulge any information to unsolicited callers or visitors and should be skeptical of Caller ID, which can be manipulated. Those who are approached should file complaints with the FTC (ftc.gov/ftc/contact.shtm), local law enforcement, and their state's attorney general and insurance department, says John Breyault, a vice president of public policy at the National Consumers League. They can also call the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging's new fraud hotline at 855-303-9470.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303460004579193720742106130

Fraudsters Are Exploiting New Health Law
One Con: Telling Medicare Beneficiaries They Must Choose New Plans
By ANNE TERGESEN
November 17, 2013

U.S. Gov't Invites Health Care Fraud

[From article]
Call right up and give all your private financial and medical information to those guys! What could go wrong? (Before Obamacare was even online, Minnesota's health exchange emailed the Social Security numbers and other identifying information for about 2,400 Americans to a man applying to be a "navigator.")

If you call today, you can sign up for Obamacare plus learn about a Nigerian prince in exile who's willing to share his vast inheritance with you in exchange for your bank account numbers. 

[. . .] 
federal health insurance programs have long been a prime target for scammers and con artists. 

To much fanfare, in 2006 Medicare announced that only 7 percent of its payments were a result of fraud. Two years later, The New York Times reported that it was actually 31.5 percent -- and that Medicare had aggressively hidden the fraud from outside auditors.
Do you think a privately run insurance company would take three years to notice that one-third of its payouts had been obtained by fraud? But with federal programs, there's a powerful incentive not to look for fraud. That would merely vindicate critics of big government!

In 2012, Medicare's crack investigators noticed that more than a billion dollars in home health care payments for 2008 had gone to one single county in Florida -- more than all such payments made to the rest of the entire country.
Do you think it would take five years for a private insurer to figure out it had been scammed out of $1 billion by a few health care professionals in one county? Anyone else would notice being stolen from, but not the government. It's not their money. 

[. . .]
Obamacare never would have passed without decades of massive immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn't change any minds -- they changed the voters. In order to pass Obamacare, Democrats had to bring in the Third World to vote Democratic.
The downside is that the country is now chock-full of people who come from cultures where criminality and government corruption is a way of life -- at the very moment that the country is expanding a government-run health insurance program already shot through with fraud and abuse. 

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2013-11-13.html

TO SPEAK TO A NIGERIAN PRINCE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH CARE, PRESS '1' NOW
November 13, 2013

Ann Coulter

Identity Thieves Create Fake Health Care Web Pages

[From article]
More than 700 websites have been created with names playing off of Obamacare or Healthcare.gov, making it likely that some Americans will mistakenly hand over private information to unknown third-parties.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/obamacare-launch-spawns-700-cyber-squatters-capitalizing-on-healthcare.gov-state-exchanges/article/2537691

Obamacare launch spawns 700+ cyber-squatters capitalizing on Healthcare.gov, state exchanges
BY JOEL GEHRKE

OCTOBER 23, 2013 AT 2:19 PM

Government Hiring Fraudsters To Navigate Obamacare

[From article]
This entire government-nonprofit alliance rests on dragooning as many people as possible into government programs. One of Seedco’s officials actually said the fraud case “made us a stronger organization.” Yes, they actually sold their deliberate number-fudging as an asset. And four states swallowed the pitch whole. The spirit of fraud-stained ACORN and its Nanny State progeny lives.

http://nypost.com/2013/10/03/make-way-for-obamacares-army-of-seedy-aides/

Make way for ObamaCare’s army of seedy aides
By Michelle Malkin
New York Post

October 3, 2013 | 12:16am

Michigan Doctor From Lebanon Sued For Medicare Fraud, Unnecessary Treatment, Homicide

Scam: Dr. Farid Fata is accused of administering cancer treatment to people who didn't need it to scam Medicare out of millions of dollars.
[From article]
'I don't know how he's gotten away with it for this long,' she told ABC News. 'I was disgusted. I got in the car, I was still sitting in the parking lot and I was truly almost in tears just because of what I saw and how patients were getting their chemotherapy.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442111/Death-Doctor-Dr-Farid-Fata-remain-prison-trial.html

'Death doctor' accused of misdiagnosing cancer patients to scam millions out of Medicare a 'serious risk' to flee the country
Dr. Farid Fata will remain behind bars until trial after $9m bond revoked
The oncologist 'systematically defrauded Medicare by submitting false claims for services that were medically unnecessary,' authorities say
Woman claims her mother died of kidney failure after too much chemo
He is facing 20 years in jail
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 17:02 EST, 2 October 2013 | UPDATED: 18:03 EST, 2 October 2013

US Court Of Appeals: Psychiatrists Commit Medicaid Fraud

http://psychrights.org/PR/130829WatsonRemandNR.pdf

CONTACT:

Jim Gottstein

907 274-7686

jim.gottstein (at) psychrights.org

Seventh Circuit Rules Psychiatrists Commit Medicaid Fraud By Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs Off-Label to Children

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 29, 2013

In a Decision issued yesterday, sending the case back to the trial court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (7th Circuit) held that psychiatrists commit Medicaid fraud when they write off-label prescriptions for psychiatric drugs to children for uses that are not "supported" by any of three drug references, known as "compendia."

At page 4 of its Decision the 7th Circuit first stated:

Under the applicable interlocking provisions of the False Claims Act and laws governing Medicaid, the federal government generally will not pay for medications prescribed for purposes not approved by the FDA or "supported" by any of several pharmaceutical reference books (called "compendia").

at page 12:

A reasonable jury could plausibly interpret the evidence Watson assembled to show that King-Vassel recklessly disregarded the fact that N.B. received Medicaid assistance, and that claims for payment for his prescriptions would be submitted to Medicaid.

and then at p. 15:

In short, we do not think a jury needs expert testimony to understand that writing a prescription to a person insured by Medicaid will likely cause a claim to be filed with Medicaid.

The lawsuit, ex rel Watson v. King-Vassel, was brought under PsychRights' Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth. by Dr. Toby Watson, a Wisconsin psychologist, to support the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights' (PsychRights^®) effort to try and stop the tremendous harm caused by off-label psychiatric drug prescriptions to poor children on Medicaid for uses that have no recognized scientific support.  Dr. Watson, said, "I am pleased the 7th Circuit ruled in our favor even though I inadvertently used the authorization for release of information form developed for my clinical practice."

Jim Gottstein, president of the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights and the attorney who handled the appeal, explained that "Congress limited Medicaid coverage to uses approved by the FDA or supported by one of the compendia, which is defined in the statute as a 'medically accepted indication.'  This is one of the things the 7th Circuit confirmed.  Another is that psychiatrists commit Medicaid Fraud when they write prescriptions for psychiatric drugs to children that are not for a medically accepted indication."  Mr. Gottstein went on to say, "the government has gone after and recovered billions of dollars from the drug companies for illegally pushing these drugs for use on children who are upset and acting out, but the psychiatrists are still prescribing these extremely harmful drugs to children."  The Drug Companies' Fraudulent Scheme can be depicted as follows:

PsychRights' Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth is designed to discourage doctors from continuing to prescribe psychiatric drugs to children that are not for a medically accepted indication.  Each off-label prescription that is not for a medically accepted indication carries a minimum penalty of $5,500.

Rebecca Gietman, Dr. Watson's trial counsel said, "With this remand, we are one step closer to addressing issues involved with the psychotropic drugging of children. Kudos to the 7th Circuit."

Obama's Dishonesty

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/352843/cloward-obama-michael-walsh

Cloward-Obama
By  Michael Walsh
July 8, 2013 9:14 AM

Miami Police Didn't Believe Kidnapping Victim; Resulting in Two More Deaths

Marc Schiller

This story was presented on CBS News television show 48 Hours on Saturday April 27, 2013.  ABC News 20/20 broadcast their own investigation previously, about this "grotesque" (word used by prosecutor Gail Levine) series of crimes. 

Marcelo "Marc" Schiller was an emigrant from Argentina living in Miami, Florida. He was a successful  accountant, but became greedy and began a Medicaid fraud business. He fired one of his employees, who joined up with a criminal gang of muscle enthusiasts at a local gym. They decided to kidnap Schiller, steal his money and kill him. They tortured him for about 40 days and tried to kill him. They failed. He survived, but did not go to police fearing prosecution for his fraudulent business. The awful part of this story is that when he did go to the police they did not believe him. [It is a problem I've had for more than 30 years of criminal abuses by crime families and Communists. Louis Zamperini, the subject of Lauren Hillenbrand's book, Unbroken, had the same reaction from his own father. He was tortured daily for 3 years after being captured by the Japanese during World War II, because he was a celebrity. When he got home neither his father nor the VA psychiatrist believed what he had survived.] When Schiller was recovering in the hospital coming out of a coma from his injuries, he told the nurses  that he was kidnapped. They told him, "No. You were in a car accident driving drunk." That was set up by the killers to cover up their crime. He gave up trying to convince the nurses.  


http://www.painandgainbook.com/

Pain and Gain
Marc Schiller
Star of Hope Inc.
2013

http://www.pieceofcakepr.com/new-book-by-real-sun-gym-gang-victim-marc-schiller-exposes-true-story-behind-the-paramount-film-pain-and-gain/


NEW BOOK BY REAL SUN GYM GANG VICTIM, MARC SCHILLER, EXPOSES TRUE STORY BEHIND THE PARAMOUNT FILM ‘PAIN AND GAIN’.
Told as a gripping memoir, Marc Schiller chronicles his month-long captivity that many will soon witness on the big screen in Paramount’s ‘Pain and Gain’ movie. Telling his untold true story for the first time, readers are urged to buckle up for a journey of adrenaline, a struggle to survive and a shocking ending.

Obesity of Lesbians A High Priority Study During Economic Crisis

During a major economic crisis with mindless politicians spending other people's money with unlimited energy, the misguided wisdom of the elected criminal class is exhibited by this grant. But it is curious that homosexuals and lesbians say they want to be treated equally, that they are no different from others. But they think maybe  there is a link between sexual orientation and weight gain? Hello? Maybe they are different and need to be treated unequally.  Maybe lesbians are more greedy and more mendacious than others. Ya think?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2292264/Public-health-study-spends-1-5m-quarters-lesbians-fat.html

Public health study spends $1.5million to find out why 'three-quarters of lesbians are obese'
National Institutes of Health awarded funding to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston to examine link between sexual orientation and obesity
Project called of 'high public health significance'
By LOUISE BOYLE
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 14:55 EST, 12 March 2013 | UPDATED: 14:57 EST, 12 March 2013

False Disabilities Draining Economic System

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will102712.php3

Jewish World Review
The Gimme Society: The entitlement state mugs our descendants
By George Will
October 27, 2012

Medicaid Fraud Ring Busted

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/med_scam_hits_city_rx_shops_9F4gIhpDxF7u8S1U4ilmKO

Med scam hits city Rx shops
By BRUCE GOLDING and JOSH MARGOLIN
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:07 AM, July 18, 2012
Posted: 3:05 AM, July 18, 2012

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http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2012071748_charged_in_massive_medicaid_fraud_case/

48 charged in massive Medicaid fraud case
Boston Herald
By Associated Press
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Obama May Abuse $8 billion in Taxpayer Funds For Campaign

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/an_billion_trick_ImTBFfz7MeuZLJY7JzXEIJ 

An $8 billion trick? Toying with Medicare to fix elex
By BENJAMIN E. SASSE & CHARLES HURT
New York Post
Last Updated: 1:41 AM, April 23, 2012 Posted: 10:45 PM, April 22, 2012