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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i am not shrugging my shoulders at abuse, but it is impossible to eliminate it. medicare is one of the most successful entitlement programs ever created and they budget in 100's of millions for abuse every year.
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If they spent a little more time cleaning up the fraud with medicare (instead of budgeting for it) then they wouldn't have to tax us (errr the people who make over 250K) more money to pay for the people who don't have health care (and who honestly deserve help to pay for it). All of that fraud money could have gone to good use instead to thieves.
It's just easier to tax the people who make more than 250K than it is to fix the problem. There is a lot less people making over 250K than there are people making under 250K so they don't care if they piss off (abuse) a small part of the population, those loss of votes wont hurt them. As far as the democrats are concerned they know they weren't likely to get many of those votes anyway.