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What Gov'ment Programs Breed... Fraud

Tam

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A close eye will need to be watching the Child health care system too as that is going to be a program ripe for mismanagement and fraud.

This was taken from

THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN CANADA:
EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY


Some observers are also concerned about certain prescription drugs. For example, international comparisons show that for patients with throat and ear infections, Canadian physicians prescribe antibiotics more often than do their counterparts in various European countries. It seems, however, that the treatment period is approximately the same, with or without antibiotics. Similarly, Canadian physicians tend to prescribe drugs for patients with colds, although such drugs are unnecessary. It seems that physicians seek to respond to the demands of their patients, who insist on these drugs. Ontario spends approximately $200 million in physicians' fees each year to treat patients with colds. (

Some of the fraud was reported to be patients insisting the docter prescribe a drugs and then taking the drugs out and selling them on the black market.

Same report
There is also ineffectiveness in management of the public health insurance system. For example, according to a report prepared by the Ontario Ministry of Health, nearly $1 billion is paid out on health care as a result of fraud.


I remember a few years back, here in Sask, the government ran an audit of services billed for by our health care providers. People were sent a letter listing the services the government was billed for on their behalf during the year. There were reports saying Docters were charging for office visits that nobody had. Some docters were charging for office visits if a person so much as telephoned to get a prescription refilled.

Government run systems are ripe for fraud If there is a will there certainly is a thousand ways with most if not all government run programs.
 
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