"arguably the most inefficient and wasteful of all government initiatives is medicare. despite strong support from citizens across the spectrum of political opinion, the program has come under fire for several damning instances of waste and fraud. perhaps the most outrageous surfaced in a 2008 msnbc report, alleging “billions in questionable claims” including, amazingly, special diabetic shoes for amputees! other claims included wheelchairs for sprained wrist victims and walkers for known paraplegics. lest these be seen as merely anamolous incident, msnbc goes on to explain that such waste (totalling over a billion dollars) was likely the result of medicare paying out claims with “invalid diagnosis codes” such as “?”, “zzzzz.” one source was quoted as saying that “even smiley-face icons cou"
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