WF&A is certainly not isolated to government. What is is the pitiful way in which they “deal” with it. No private business, with public knowledge of the massive WF&A going on within its operations would last a quarter let alone decades.

OIG’s report to Congress regarding ‘08’s activity reported fraud estimates of $60 Billion, EVERY YEAR – and that’s “conservative estimate” per the report. According to SFC Ranking Member, Chuck Grassley, that is about 13.3% of the annual Medicare program payments. Moreover, it is not just the amount; it is also about how pitifully easy it is to defraud a government run program.

Your comparison of auto insurance with HCI is lame and you know that Degs. They are so far apart it is not even like comparing insurance with insurance. People approach their auto insurance completely differently than they do their HCI. I have discussed this previously.

Why should an employer be responsible for providing HIC for employees? All you folks on the left whine about how HC is a governmental responsibility and a universal entitlement, but when it comes down to it you want someone else to pay for it; either the employers or the taxpayers.

What I get from your post is that this stuff goes on and we just have to bend over and accept it? We are pissing away our life’s blood here, for our grandchildren at least and we have to draw a line somewhere. Government is so screwed up and corrupt there is no way of avoiding drowning in the slime short of pulling the plug overall on Congress and starting over with a new batch and an informed and active electorate.