http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/nyregion/23medicaid.html
Audit Says State Wasted $92 Million on Medicaid
I don't know about you, but I am always impressed when I see government corruption scale new heights.
As far as I am concerned, all government employees are goldbricking frauds and cheats or they would have been able to get jobs in the private sector. If that is the case, it is a miracle the auditors even reported $92 million of fraud in the system. Chances are, the amount of the fraud is much larger, but auditors were either fired if they were any good, or bribed if they were half bad to not report some of it. Even so, the auditors still managed to report $92 million of fraud.
What I find interesting, is there is rarely a day that goes by when you can't find a story about some government agency wasting millions of dollars or discovering fraudulent schemes totaling millions of dollars that has been running for years.
I wonder why private business doesn't have lots of big firms going out of business when major fraud happens? Oh, that's right. Most businesses care about what they are doing, and don't allow fraud like that to occur. And if it does happen, the people involved get prosecuted for a crime.
When fraud of this nature happens in a government agency, nobody is punished for wrongdoing. In fact, the agency that reported the fraud now has an excuse to ask for even more money because not all the money they received was spent correctly.
Please keep in mind that this article didn't mention that anyone was going to do anything about the situation. After all, if you haven't been arrested and prosecuted, then it can't be a serious problem.
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