Washington (CNN) -- The federal government made $98 billion in improper payments in fiscal 2009, and President Obama will issue an executive order in coming days to combat the problem, his budget director announced Tuesday.
The 2009 total for improper payments -- from outright fraud to misdirected reimbursements due to factors such as an illegible doctor's signature -- was a 37.5 percent increase over the $72 billion in 2008, according to figures provided by Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Got that? 0bama is 37.5% less competent than that drooling chimp moron Bush...
Snark aside, this is downright frightening. $98 BILLION dollars was paid improperly, with no real way of knowing just how much was fradulent. Great. This is the same government that wants to take charge of our health care - more than half of the $98 billion went to Medicare/Medicaid. That tells me that the government is doing a TERRIBLE job of keeping track of medical-related spending. And this is the same government telling us that reducing Medicare/Medicaid costs will save us money for universal health care.
Right. Pull the other one.
That is all.
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I don't see what could possibly go wrong with a single-payer health insurance plan.
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