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Billing Medicare for services that never get performed is a particularly offensive kind of fraud. I hope these criminals get a harsh sentence.

I think this is less offensive than the kind of scheme where a hospital billed for doing actual heart surgery on patients who didn’t have heart problems. https://www.sfgate.com/health/article/REDDING-Settlement-in-...

The worst one in history was elected to the Senate.

Yeah but that's the point, you need to display to the serfs that you're above the law and you will do nothing about it.

You need one every generation or else the workers might rise up.