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→Cost: One third of payments involved fraud
[[Morton Kaplan]] predicted that Medicare would bankrupt the federal government. [http://books.google.com/books?id=1CYNtYgpqEoC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=medicare+bankrupt+morton+kaplan&source=bl&ots=8HUtCMTen7&sig=gFioCnI9z3oQh299uHfYysmVgf4&hl=en&ei=CuAzS9LSFcaMlAex7-WTBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false]
[[Morton Kaplan]] predicted that Medicare would bankrupt the federal government. [http://books.google.com/books?id=1CYNtYgpqEoC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=medicare+bankrupt+morton+kaplan&source=bl&ots=8HUtCMTen7&sig=gFioCnI9z3oQh299uHfYysmVgf4&hl=en&ei=CuAzS9LSFcaMlAex7-WTBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false]
==Fraud==
[[Ann Coulter]] wrote:
*To much fanfare, in 2006 Medicare announced that only 7 percent of its payments were a result of fraud. Two years later, The New York Times reported that it was actually 31.5 percent -- and that Medicare had aggressively hidden the fraud from outside auditors. <ref>[http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2013-11-13.html#read_more Ann Coulter - November 13, 2013 - "To speak to a Nigerian prince about your health care, press 1 now"]</ref>
==Medicaid==
==Medicaid==