From the “IT COULD ALWAYS BE WORSE” Department
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Let’s face it. American health care has a long way to go toward improving its quality and its availability. But things could be worse. According to today’s BBC NEWS, Sicilian physicians have been billing their state medical program for the treatment of dead patients. Some of the individuals had been dead for 20 years.
At least in our country, when our physicians commit fraud (i.e., Medicaid Fraud), they use patients who are still alive, which is smart, since a living patient can have a “need” for many invented procedures over the course of his lifetime, thereby providing a steady source of illicit income for his American, criminally-inclined doctor.
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throckmorton said:
I am amazed by the number of patients that I see that are on full Social Security disability and full Medicare that have no disability. The most common thing that they all have is that they have a great disability lawyer. My favorite is the gentleman on full disability who walks 18 holes and has a 2 handicap.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:49 am -
Andrew Barovick said:
That is a disgrace. Obviously, fraud is not confined to any particular profession. When I was on the defense side, I routinely dispatched an investigator with a videocamera to test the claims of plaintiffs who had raised my suspicions, and sometimes came away with great results (i.e., the eldery woman who claimed she could no longer walk, walking with barely a problem). By the way, your blog is very funny. I’ve had that proctoscope-like feeling myself at times.
November 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am