Health Care Fraud as It Affects the Aging
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Excerpt from Health Care Fraud as It Affects the Aging: Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, Racine, Wisconsin, August 13, 1993 The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:30 a.m., at Gateway Technical College, Racine, Wisconsin, Hon. Herb Kohl (Acting Chairman of the Committee), presiding. Present: Senator Kohl. Opening Statement of Senator Herb Kohl, Acting Chairman Senator Kohl. Good morning. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I´m glad to have you all here today, and I hope that we will have a very important and informative hearing this morning. You know, if you ask most Americans what they feel is the most important issue facing our country and our Congress, health care is near the top of anybody´s list. Indeed we all know the President and the First Lady are working very hard toward a national health care plan, the details of which we expect will be released sometime early this fall. Health care reform is certain to be one of the most debated issues of our time, and we know it will be indeed one of the most controversial. No matter what is decided in the health care reform there is one illness in our health care system that we cannot ignore. And this illness is fraud. It is literally bleeding our health care system into critical condition. Late last year the General Accounting Office released a very disturbing report. The General Accounting Office estimates that 10 percent of the dollars that we spend on health care in America are being stolen through waste, fraud, and abuse. This year it is estimated that $900 billion will be spent on medical care in our country. That means that $90 billion, or 10 percent, will be lost through illegal or unethical activities that rob us of our precious health care dollars. We have to stop this bleeding and I hope that today´s hearing will be a step in the right direction. We will hear today from a variety of witnesses who will tell us how this fraud is occurring and how we might put a stop to it. Unfortunately, health care fraud takes many forms, but ultimately we are all its victims. Sometimes it comes from dishonest medical professionals who bill people for medical services that they don´t need, or even for medical services that were never rendered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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