I’ve been posting stories from the DOJ website about medicare fraud in my Morning Links for the better part of a year now. Today, it occurred to me I never searched the DOJ site as a whole on the topic, so I entered Medicare Fraud and came back with this:

2,900 hits. Dear Lord.

There was no way I could sift through that many entries so I did a second detailed search with Medicare Fraud matches in the title of the article. 196 hits came back. More manageable yet still quite a lot for just little old me to sort through.

A sample of the incredible dollar amounts attached to just first few pages of results at the DOJ website:

• $95 Million
• $26 Million
• $10.9 Million
• $18.3 Million
• $10.7 Million
• $61 Million
• $4.9 Million
• $23 Million
• $225 Million
• $295 Million
• $50 Million
• $251 Million

I follow the DOJ feed for a variety of reasons as well as the Stop Medicare Fraud page. At Stop Medicare Fraud, they boldly tout the headline: Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Efforts Result in Record-Breaking Recoveries Totaling Nearly $4.1 Billion.  $4.1 Billion…that they know of . While that $4.1 billion is an overall number, that’s worse than the $3.3 billion the USPS lost last quarter alone. This administration wants to run our nations healthcare — with losses and fraud like this? Perhaps they aren’t cheerleading these stories to keep the lid on how much more Obamacare is stealing from Medicare than those committing outright fraud – $575 Billion over 10 years. Small wonder the Obama administration isn’t hollering about this from the treetops via their ‘Truth Teams’.