Dead Doctors Still Making Millions From Medicare Billings

Medicare issued as much as $92 million in payments between 2000 and 2007 for medical procedures or devices ordered under the names of doctors who had already died, according to a 2008 Senate committee report.

Prescriptions written in the names of deceased doctors are only one of the fraudulent techniques that plague the U.S. health care system, which has become a favorite target for organized crime.

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Welcome to Obamacare: Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients

The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.

More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare, the government’s largest health-insurance program, will be forced to pay cash if they want to continue seeing their doctors at a Mayo family clinic in Glendale, northwest of Phoenix, said Michael Yardley, a Mayo spokesman.'

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Obama’s ‘Kill Grandma Bill’

A brief explanation of what is happening to cause this state of affairs for seniors: If a physician has to pay $75 dollars to see a Medicare patient in the office and Medicare only pays $50 dollars, he goes bankrupt in no time under the increasing rates of malpractice insurance and overhead. This is the reason there is a shortage of primary care physicians. The ones that remain in practice cannot afford to see Medicare patients. This is by design––this is the federal government sacrificing the elderly to cut costs.

And, it’s about to get a whole lot worse.

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