Wednesday, November 18, 2009

But this time it will be different

Improper payments by the U.S. government to people, firms and contractors rose sharply to $98 billion in fiscal 2009 and President Barack Obama plans new rules to clamp down, the White House said Tuesday.

Over half the mistakes were made in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and although some of the deterioration reflected stricter measurement, it also showed the need for healthcare reform, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag told reporters.


Brought to you by the same people wanting to run your health care.....

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This illustrates the most striking difference between the public sector and the private sector. Failures in the private sector are ultimately defunded. Failures in the public sector are deemed as under funded. Public sector failures are rewarded with continuously enhanced funding breeding perpetual and ever-growing failure.