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FRAUDULENT MEDICAL SUPPLIERS

Unscrupulous medical suppliers may charge Medicare recipients up to 50 to 60 times more than regular retail store prices. Why? It is the law! The U.S. Congress enacted a law that keeps prices illegitimately inflated!

If anyone ever tells you, "Oh, don't worry. Medicare pays for it." Do not be fooled. Every taxpayer pays for overcharges and overbilling and if government attempts to "cut the fat" or "clean up" the fraud and wasteful spending the government actually only ends up cutting its own prosperity like "throwing the baby out with the bath water!"

It is easier and less threatening to the status quo of governmental bureaucracy to inconspicuously cut Medicare and other health care benefits, raise taxes and raise the cost of Medicare premiums!

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: ABC-TV 20/20 11/3/95

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