New York Medicaid: Corrupt, Scandalous, Unscrupulous
By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
Following the Washington Post coverage of the Medicare drug plans fiasco, its worth noting that there is a corrupt and rotting underbelly of NY's Medicaid system.
Billions of dollars are bilked by doctors, dentists, pharmacists and Big Pharma--and related industry businesses--on our tax dime--all under the glaucomic gaze of our legislators and law enforcement overseers, who pooh-pooh this scandal completely.
Why?
'Cause the criminals are our own physicians, dentists, accountants, friends and family members; you know--white, middle class people who we know, respect and love. People like us--people who are us. So, we'll spend billions of dollars to arrest, prosecute and incarcerate some black kid who sells a vial of cocaine to another kid who wants to get high and eat some Fritos in front of his television, but we give a complete pass to the arch criminals in our midst who rip us all off--and let our kids' educational needs and health care suffer at the felonious hands of the white collar corporate criminal, aided and abetted by our government watchdogs and our elected officials.
A New York Times report May last year sheds light on the “unscrupulous and the opportunistic” Medicaid program of New York State:
New York's Medicaid program, once a beacon of the Great Society era, has become so huge, so complex and so lightly policed that it is easily exploited. Though the program is a vital resource for 4.2 million poor people who rely on it for their health care, a yearlong investigation by The Times found that the program has been misspending billions of dollars annually because of fraud, waste and profiteering. A computer analysis of several million records obtained under the state Freedom of Information Law revealed numerous indications of fraud and abuse that the state had never looked into.
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