Man, they need to repeal that to keep the $2.5 billion in the hands of the PEOPLE!

This madness must stop!

This part of the law goes directly at his Liberal base. Big mistake.

Once again Obama strikes out at business savvy Americans.

Revolting.

Somacandra: Bollocks to that. How's the BushCheneyRumsfeldWar doing in Iraq? I herd there was another suicide bombing around ImamAliKarbalaAshura.

You forgot AhmahDinnerJacket

-Confiscating private assets? The communist takeover has begun...

This is nothing more than blood libel against Medicare cheats, pure and simple.

Frikkin redistribution of wealth! Those hardworking Americans earned that money and now Comm-bama is taking it away and giving it back to the proletariat!

So out of the 2.5B in judgments, how much have they ACTUALLY managed to collect?

tallguywithglasseson: That's another $2.5 billion worth of jobs killed by Obamacare.

Those are jobs that should go away.

So when does Rick Scott get the bill?

Now only a thousand more billion for the oligarchical collectivist statist authoritarian regime to be solvent.

physical therapy clinics probably steal more from medicare than anyone else

Awesome. This conservative cheers this progress. Now, we just need a way to figure out how to keep that other $57.5 to $87.5 Billion from being wasted.

You want to cut Medicare? THIS is the way to do it.

Oh, goody, Yahoo!News comments.

just a tip of the iceberg and remember, most fraud occurs in the inner cities - just another way for payback for Democrats loyal following and their purchased votes

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If your doctor is Muslim, better find a new one because he will be forced to close his doors once his Medicare fraud is discovered. All that money he defrauded the Government goes to fund Hamas and Hezbollah. Also, watch out for the medical Jihad they practice on Jews, the infidel Westerner will be next.

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This is fraud from just 1 year in just Medicare. Can you imagine the billions and billions in wasted and stolen money if Obamacare gets enacted. It's mind boggling.

ZOMG Redistributing the wealth Socialism!!!!

/amidoinitright?

Counter_Intelligent: Does this mean I can't get a free Rascal if I eat too much?

Don't forget your diebetus supplies

mahuika: Oh, goody, Yahoo!News comments.

just a tip of the iceberg and remember, most fraud occurs in the inner cities - just another way for payback for Democrats loyal following and their purchased votes

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If your doctor is Muslim, better find a new one because he will be forced to close his doors once his Medicare fraud is discovered. All that money he defrauded the Government goes to fund Hamas and Hezbollah. Also, watch out for the medical Jihad they practice on Jews, the infidel Westerner will be next.

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This is fraud from just 1 year in just Medicare. Can you imagine the billions and billions in wasted and stolen money if Obamacare gets enacted. It's mind boggling.

Do not - I repeat, DO NOT - read Yahoo News comments. They will literally damage your brain.
Most of the people who post on there now were normal people before they started reading them.

animesucks: physical therapy clinics probably steal more from medicare than anyone else

More from everyone, really. Had a coworker "injure" his hand with a cable crimper, and while the injury may have been real, the 8 months of physical therapy were a touch...extravagant? It was also extremely irritating to have to carry everything that weighed more than 20 pounds for him, while listening to him talk about how much wood he chopped over the weekend.

no, it's a good step, and one that must be taken, but even if you immediately and magically removed all fraud from the system, it would still not fix the financial problems.

To do that, you have to attack the source of the problem, which is an entirely US-centric problem: Doctors are paid more to run more test and do more procedures and prescribe more pharmaceuticals. They are not paid more to have healthier, more educated (in a personal health sense) patients.

Until that is fixed, our healthcare system will never, NEVER get where it needs to be. Health care isn't a car or a watch or a loan or a gallon of gas...in many ways, it is the opposite of a market-driven product, because it is ultimately suicidal (pun!) if left to capitalism.

It is like a housing bubble that can't bust until it brings down the entire country. You thought the real estate speculation was an insane mess? Look at the annual increase in the cost of healthcare over the last 20 years, then look at the cost of home ownership over the same period.

Extend that trend out 10 or 20 or 40 years into the future (presumably most farkers are planning on being around another 40+ years), and let that settle in for you.

If you think the "what will it cost me" number looks too high to be plausible, welcome to the collapse of America. All this bull-shiatting, pandering and positioning in congress, trying to delay and repeal and pass the buck, for 20 years now we've been ignoring the elephant in the room, and the time is fast approaching when we won't have that luxury any longer.

We've lived in this isolated bubble of prosperity in the US for so long that almost nobody alive today can really understand what it's like when a country literally falls apart under its own weight. The great depression was the closest thing we've seen since the civil war, and even that was nothing compared to what's staring us in the face. America as we know it might not even be around long enough to have to worry about global warming...

New authority granted by Obamacare law allows Feds to recover $2.5 billion from Medicare scams. What's left out from that is that the cost of the new authority, the Medicare Evasion Scam System, is approximately $2.5 billion.

Quick, to the Beck-mobile!.

/It runs on Death Panels!
//... as far as I remember

is this about chiropractors?

jso2897: Most of the people who post on there now were normal people before they started reading them.

Yahoo!News: The Gateway drug to Freerepublic.

animesucks: physical therapy clinics probably steal more from medicare than anyone else

Yes, those $75 monthly appointments are murder.

Compare to the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars it might cost medicare to keep grandma alive in the hospital for three extra days after her liver fails.

/death panels ftw?

that money will go directly to funding the Palin-American Happy Camps where they will have the opportunity to make the bootstraps for all america

This is probably one of my favorite threads only because the ratio of sarcastic posts to serious posts is so high.

Oh crap...I mean...yeah guys, sarcasm is sooooo funny. Pfft.
There...better.

chaunceymo: animesucks: physical therapy clinics probably steal more from medicare than anyone else

Yes, those $75 monthly appointments are murder.

Compare to the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars it might cost medicare to keep grandma alive in the hospital for three extra days after her liver fails.

/death panels ftw?

Yep, end of life care is some of the most expensive medical care you can receive. We as a society need to do a better job at accepting the inevitable instead of wasting billions trying to make it last a few more days.

$2.5 Billion out of $60 - $90 billion I give them a D-.

If it was actual fraud then the government already had that authority. If it is not out right fraud then maybe it was an example of a poorly written law to begin with. So it is being stopped by another poorly written law? That does not make me feel any better. It makes me wonder what other unintended consequences we will be facing in the future.

need4mospd: New authority granted by Obamacare law allows Feds to recover $2.5 billion from Medicare scams. What's left out from that is that the cost of the new authority, the Medicare Evasion Scam System, is approximately $2.5 billion.

Derp!

Sofa King Smart: is this about chiropractors?

And homeopaths as well.

Where is Gato Negro to say something asinine when you need him!

If the Republicans repeal Obamacare, does that mean we have to give that money back?

The Affordable Care Act will also allow authorities more power to combat fraud, including tougher screenings for providers and the ability to withhold payments during investigations.

While I support this in theory, the "ability to withhold payments" part of it is going to exacerbate the payment issues that result in a number of physicians flat-out refusing medicaid or medicare.

No downside to tougher screenings for providers, though, I'm with 'em on that 100%.

Rubberband Girl: I wonder how they came up with that number? Is there something real to base it on, did they pull it out of their dupas or is the answer a bit of both

Given that it's an "estimation" it's probably a little from column a and a little from column b.

Awesome; maybe soon i'll be able to get through an entire episode of "The Price is Right" without being bombarded with 27 advertisements for Free* power chairs to anyone over 55 who's ever walked with a limp...

*not free

I admit, I came in here initially to drop a "All your politics are now irrelevant." But it's really unnecessary, here. There's already so much snark flying around that my little addition wouldn't make a noticeable difference. So, yeah.

Bonus: First GIS hit for "flying snark":

Gulper Eel: ...in much the way that a blind hog finds an acorn.

I prefer "Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then."

shirtsbyeric: $2.5 Billion out of $60 - $90 billion I give them a D-.

3% - 5% is only a D-. That's a pretty solid F where I come from.