Another day, another story of Medicare fraud. Perhaps the Obama administration should focus on preventing the misuse of this government-backed insurer rather than trying to create another from scratch.

Federal agents have dismantled a Miami-based ring they said schemed to defraud Medicare of $100 million by filing false claims for obsolete HIV therapy across five states — although two of the suspects who posed as clinic owners have fled to Cuba.

Obsolete HIV therapies. Perhaps the problem isn’t entirely with Medicare. After all, what private insurers won’t recognize bogus therapies when paying out claims? | LINK

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