re: OT: Corona Panic 2020

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It's actually pretty hard to commit Medicare fraud. I know it happens, but it's usually with small shops who don't know what they're doing or it involves a whole lot of collusion (i.e. HealthSouth).

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The FBI and Office of Government Accounting do some report every year, and it's been pretty much the same year over year for a couple decades.

The US spends upwards of $3+ TRILLION on healthcare annually in this country, and there's somewhere between 3-10% attributed to fraud.

That's $90 billion to $300+ billion in fraud.

And Medicare typically has anywhere from $45 billion to $65 billion a year in "improper payments", and they estimate the fraud attributed to this to be anywhere from 50% or more.

So the fact we're in the "BILLIONS" in fraud dollars with regards to healthcare speaks volumes by itself.

Who cares how hard it is to commit Medicare fraud. I'm arguing with a guy who's criticizing me for suggesting some doctors are complicit in padding COVID death numbers, and he's acting like that's blasphemy.

So I hear ya, but come on, man. I'm making sort of a different point.