Mandate Madness

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Author(s) Jeffrey Anderson
Source The Weekly Standard
Date July 22, 2013
URL http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/mandate-madness_740066.html
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Quotes-start.png That swings the door wide open for defrauding taxpayers. Think government programs are safe from such concerns? Think again. The Government Accountability Office estimates that, in 2011, Medicare and Medicaid made a whopping $50.7 billion in fraudulent payments. That same year, the combined annual profits of the nation’s 10 largest insurance companies were $13.7 billion. In other words, the government lost almost four times as much as private insurers made. Quotes-end.png


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