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Eliminate Medicare Fraud: Help Patients Instead

Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Care2

A recent government report indicates that an estimated $2.8 billion in federal Medicare spending in 2006 was improper - and auditors were told to ignore established policies that would have detected the waste.

A front-page New York Times article chronicling the report indicated that Medicare officials instructed auditors to ignore a key provision meant to ensure that medical equipment goes to actual patients. As a result, the auditors overlooked the fact that improper spending accounted for nearly one-third of medical equipment payments in 2006.

Improper Medicare spending hurts patients who really need it - and causes our government to fall more and more into debt. Tell Congress they must hold Medicare more accountable - so the service goes to people who really need it!

deadline: 8-25-2009
goal: 10,000

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Dear [Senator or Representative],

I am horrified to read of the $2.8 billion in improper federal Medicare spending in 2006. Not only is this fiscal irresponsibility bad for government spending, it also harms the very people Medicare is trying to help - the elderly and those with disabilities who need health care the most. I urge you to hold Medicare more accountable, so that Medicare funds go to whom they are meant.

Inappropriate documentation plagued almost one-third of equipment spending in 2006 because AdvanceMed - the auditors hired by Medicare - were told to only examine medical sales invoices, not both invoices and doctor's records, which would have uncovered the fraud.

[Your comment here]

I look forward to hearing your plan of action to hold Medicare more accountable in delivering its services to people who really need them.

Sincerely,
[Your name here]

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9:52 am PDT, Aug 24, Karol Krzywon, New Jersey

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11:47 am PDT, Aug 21, Kimberly Wyke, Maine

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9:26 am PDT, Aug 10, Lori Kegler, California
Our government is so short of funds already, that losing 2.8 billion a year really needs to stop.

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6:29 pm PDT, Aug 7, David Tsosie, Arizona

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12:06 pm PDT, Aug 5, Patricia Kummer, Illinois

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9:58 pm PDT, Jul 22, James Rucks, Georgia
...''they'' are looting this country ''blind''!!!!

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