“In 2010, Medicare disbursed $524 billion. The number of people receiving funds in 2012 was 49.4 million. For comparison, take a very large business that has high revenues. Number three is Walmart with $447 billion. Walmart has 100 million customers a week. How large is fraud against Medicare? It runs about $60 billion a year. How large is fraud committed against the Walmart company? A large fraud against Walmart reported recently was a $13 million credit card and gift card fraud. A recent large fraud case against Medicare was $430 million. Earlier this year, there was another large case of $452 million against Medicare.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/124132.html
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