Waste, Fraud, and Yadda Yadda Yadda

by Tevi Troy  •  Sep 11, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Cross-posted from National Review Online: Critical Condition

http://www.tevitroy.org/2009/09/waste-fraud-and-yadda-yadda-yadda

President Obama promised in his health-care speech to get rid of, you guessed it, waste, fraud, and abuse (a.k.a. WFA) in our health-care system. Unfortunately, expanding government's role in the provision of health care is likely to increase WFA, as Medicare fraud already costs, per Secretary Sebelius "tens of billions a year." I talked about the endemic nature of Medicare fraud on Fox Business yesterday, and today crack researcher Jack Pitney has compiled a list of promises from every president dating back to Eisenhower promising to root it out. I'm anti-fraud, no doubt about it, but this list makes one somewhat skeptical that this latest presidential promise to get rid of it will come to fruition.

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