Medicare fraud by the billions; senators wrestle with how to stop it

McClatchy reports:

It shows up almost daily, in a drumbeat of press releases from the Justice Department about prosecutions of scam artists who’ve preyed on the government’s biggest health care program -- the $600 billion bureaucracy called Medicare.

In the latest example, an owner and operator of community mental health centers in Baton Rouge, La., and Houston were convicted on May 21st for their roles in a $258 million scheme to submit thousands of false billings to the government.

Yet, some people are more concerned with the costs of private insurance spending money on advertising!