This is what happens when the government runs things.
Medicare loses billions of dollars each year due to fraud, errors, and abuse. Estimates place these losses at approximately $60 billion annually, though the exact figure is impossible to measure.
https://smpresource.org/medicare-fraud/ ... %20measure.
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Inside the mind of criminals: How to brazenly steal $100 billion from Medicare and Medicaid
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/09/how-med ... he-us.html
Medicare could care less about fraud. They barely enforce things. It would take more man power than they have to go after fraud. And secondly. it's not their money that is getting taken. It's yours and mine and they could give a rats *** if they need to tax us more to get it.