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Some people MAY remember that Obama pledged to cut "waste, fraud and abuse" out of the medicare system. Ring a bell? Anyway, the example given and which was featured on I believe the PBS show Frontline went like this.
A guy takes out a PO box and rents a physical location in a dead strip mall. He claims he's in the artificial limbs business. He sends hundreds of phony claims to medicare, who (as was the policy at the time) paid out those claims in advance of making any follow up visit to the physical location. The guy gets a bunch of checks, closes up the PO box, ducks out of his lease and moves on to start up a nother phony front in another town.
Thats one example of the "waste, fraud and abuse" that Obama has "cut" from medicare. You can look this stuff up yourself if you want.
Is it a "cut" when you stop sending checks to phony places who fraudulently submit the claims? Yes.
Is it a good cut that everyone would agree with once they know the facts? Yes.
Will it be used anyway to claim Obama cut your medicare? You bet your ass.
Grains of salt were invented for taking along with political claims.
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