The Medical Freedom Channel

“A year ago, candidates for governor and attorney general promised voters they would crack down on Medicaid fraud to bring back millions of taxpayer dollars that have been wasted by unscrupulous doctors and scam artists. So how have the winners, Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, done so far? Pretty well, records show. Changes the Health Department implemented under Spitzer’s administration were largely responsible for a reported $1 billion savings this year in the health care program for the poor. That’s about 1 percent of the total state funds budget. Both better administration and enforcement are cited in a program that some estimate loses billions to fraud and waste yearly.” (12/26/07)