Medicare fraud and abuse—?

Question by ladyliberty: Medicare fraud and abuse—?
Drug abusers and alcoholics are the ones who have depleted the Medicare system.
Those life styles were their own choices, which in turn caused health problems. Medicare should never have approved drug abusers and alcohol abusers for benefits—after all, most have not worked and never paid any towards Medicare. That’s where the abuse in Medicare is —those folks have not even paid into the Medicare system (or very little). Then you take someone older who has worked and paid into Medicare for years and years–and Obama is wanting them to choose hospice instead of treatment (which they paid for remember?). But its ok to take all their money they paid into the Medicare system and give it—free of cost—to drug users and alcoholics, simply because they are younger?.
BoredinVA–I wrote that the elderly have paid into Medicare for years and years. I bill Medicare for hospital claims and I’ve seen it over and over, young people who can’t work or hold a job due to addictions, yet they qualify for Medicare—AND the qualifying diagnosis???? You guessed it—alcholism or drug addiction. Those diagnosis should not qualify for Medicare, especially if they’ve never paid for Medicare.

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Answer by Gladys
God Lady, I think you were reading my mind. What a great question. I totally agree with everything you said, because it is pure truth.

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