Medicare Fraud: A $60 Billion Crime

"The Great Health Care Debate of 1993-94 "
http://www.upenn.edu/pnc/ptbok.html

"Large majorities of the public felt that the principal cause of high medical costs was the existence of waste, fraud and greed within the health care industry. Accordingly, they were persuaded that adequate reforms could be financed by curbing these abuses. This impression was not misguided on its face. Doctors' incomes in the United States are 50-200 percent higher than they are in other advanced democracies. The General Accounting Office has estimated that fraud accounts for as much as 10 percent of the total health care bill. Studies show that American hospitals are much more heavily staffed than hospitals in other industrial nations and that the country is oversupplied with expensive medical technologies. Further studies estimate that up to 20-25 percent of all medical procedures in the United States are unnecessary."

http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Hillary_Clinton_Health_Care.htm

"Taxpayers pay for drug R&D, not drug companies...It is American taxpayers who pay for the research & a lot of the clinical studies...we also have to give Medicare the right to negotiate with drug companies to get the price down,"

yet the GOP made it illegal to do so.

"Electronic medical records save $120 billion in health care"

"Require electronic medical record for all federal healthcare"

even Newt Gingrich has suggested this, yet nothing was done after all these years