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I read in the newspaper recently that homeless people were being used, then dumped, so that three hospitals and doctors could fraudulantly benefit from Medicare and State money. They were busted when suspicious people finally called authorities. Medicare was cheated out of around a billion dollars making it hard on other doctors and hospitals who honestly want to make a decent living.

Medicare fraud hurts doctors and patients alike.

This also makes it hard on a patient to pay a Medicare premium. Mine is ninety-six dollars a month.

Whereas one doctor may bill a patient one amount, another may bill a patient a higher one. That is the reason for a doctor's and hospital's Medicare profile where they calculate the average and that is the amount they pay. No one doctor is paid a higher or lower amount and neither is a hospital, no matter what procedure the patient has been billed for.

The fraud I read about in the newspaper just flabberghasted me that someone would have the unmitigated gall to make it hard on other doctors, hospitals, and patients. But, this is true in any federal or state program designed to help American citizens who have worked hard and the caring doctors who will accept these payments rather than the full amount.

Some illegal aliens (according to a reliable source) have applied for state assistance under three or four different social security numbers amd received it. Does that explain some of Medicare's crackdown on doctors' profits? It's not fair to the doctors to have spent so many years going to school to be doctors, and sometimes, continuing on to specialize.

If everyone would walk the walk and talk the talk, then our country would be in A-1 shape.

Will it ever happen?

If we are not careful, there is going to be a physician shortage as well as too few nurses and what incentive, plus caring for human lives, would that be for a person to even consider medical school?

There is the question of whether Social Security will be available for our children when they reach retirement. Where is the money that has been paid in for them? In that billions of dollars that the hospitals and doctors defrauded Medicare by using those homeless people?

If U. S. money was kept in this country and not strewn about worldwide to countries that hate us in the first place, we would have beaucoup and not have to worry what is to become of our own children who are out working for a living and trying to make a decent world for their own children.

Definitely, the doctors and patients are not being treated fair.

I stand behind honest doctors and I consider anyone honest until I find out different.

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