government. the numbers are staggering for last year. department of health and human services medicare fee for service, 34.3 billion improper payments. medicine medicaid 22.5 billion dollars. unemployment insurance department of labor overpayment 17.5 billion. billions and billions of dollars. that seems like it would be so politically attractive that any party would seize upon an opportunity to do that. i think it is frankly mystifying. at the center for health transformation a couple years ago we published a book called stop buy paying the crooks. we thought that title would be catchy enough that washington pay attention. we believe the total amount of fraud and theft in medicare and medicaid is 720 billions a year. greta: but why? i can t tell you. ibp and dell and other
government. the numbers are staggering for last year. department of health and human services medicare fee for service, 34.3 billion improper payments. medicine medicaid 22.5 billion dollars. unemployment insurance department of labor overpayment 17.5 billion. billions and billions of dollars. that see like it would be so politically attractive that any party would seize upon an opportunity to do that. i think it is frankly mystifying. at the center for health transformation a couple years ago we published a book called stop buy paying the crooks. we thought that title would be catchy enough that washington pay attention. we believe the total amount of fraud and theft in medicare and medicaid is 720 billions a year. greta: but why? i can t tell you. ibp and dell and other