Monday, June 22, 2026

A Billion Here, Another Billion There

After yesterday's coverage6/22/26 Fox News:

A fugitive accused of helping mastermind a $3.7 billion Medicare fraud scheme — one of the largest in U.S. history — is in American custody after authorities tracked him down in Turkey and flew him back to the U.S. to face charges, the FBI announced Monday..

It used to be an article of faith on the left that we would have enough money to take care of every poor person if we were not wasting it on the military.  I wonder if we could take care of every poor American if so much of the budget was not being stolen, often by non-citizens. 

Only a billion if you round. 6/19/26 Houston Chronicle:

A nurse practitioner from Nevada has been charged with multiple federal felonies after being accused of using clinics in the Houston area to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare.

Marizel Yukee, of Las Vegas, was indicted Thursday on federal Medicare fraud charges. Yukee is accused of working with others to defraud terminally ill people by providing them with unnecessary treatments and then billing the government for their care.

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