On 11-10-13, BOB KLAHN said to TIM RICHARDSON:


TR> Here's some more


BK>Nothing beyond this point read.


BK>You really are desperate for my attention.


~Really~? But  . . . *YOU* are the one who constantly floods the echo with
long, drawn-out `replies' to posts I make that are not even addressed *TO*
you!


I would say its more like *you* are desperate for MY attention! Otherwise you
wouldn't pay attention to me at all. Sometime weeks go by without any message
traffic from you...then suddenly a flood of posts with your name in the *from*
field, spouting your lies, half-truths, and low-ball accusations. It takes you
that long to think up `comebacks'!


You're pathetic!


By the way...here's Ann Coulter's latest column. Read it and choke:



To Speak to a Nigerian Prince About Your Health Care, Press '1' Now


Ann Coulter | Nov 13, 2013


In a weird confluence of the nation's two most pressing issues -- Obamacare
and our insane immigration laws -- this week we found out that the tens of
thousands of "navigators" hired by the government to enroll people in
Obamacare will include convicted felons.


Despite some "navigators" having already been exposed as having arrest
warrants against them, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has
no plans to screen out the criminals. (But rest assured: If your identity is
stolen as a result of trying to sign up for Obamacare, no one will be more
upset about it than President Obama.)


Maybe it's a blessing that the Obamacare website has crashed more often than
the Soviet Union's commercial air fleet did.


In addition to convicted felons, navigators are drawn from labor unions,
community organizers, former ACORN staffers and front-groups for the
Democratic National Committee.


Call right up and give all your private financial and medical information to
those guys! What could go wrong? (Before Obamacare was even online,
Minnesota's health exchange emailed the Social Security numbers and other
identifying information for about 2,400 Americans to a man applying to be a
"navigator.")


If you call today, you can sign up for Obamacare plus learn about a Nigerian
prince in exile who's willing to share his vast inheritance with you in
exchange for your bank account numbers.


Which reminds me, federal health insurance programs have long been a prime
target for scammers and con artists.


To much fanfare, in 2006 Medicare announced that only 7 percent of its
payments were a result of fraud. Two years later, The New York Times reported
that it was actually 31.5 percent -- and that Medicare had aggressively hidden
the fraud from outside auditors.


Do you think a privately run insurance company would take three years to
notice that one-third of its payouts had been obtained by fraud? But with
federal programs, there's a powerful incentive not to look for fraud. That
would merely vindicate critics of big government!


In 2012, Medicare's crack investigators noticed that more than a billion
dollars in home health care payments for 2008 had gone to one single county in
Florida -- more than all such payments made to the rest of the entire country.


Do you think it would take five years for a private insurer to figure out it
had been scammed out of $1 billion by a few health care professionals in one
county?


Anyone else would notice being stolen from, but not the government. It's not
their money.


Wherever there's a government program, there's a gigantic opportunity for
criminals. A staggering percentage of the health care workers scamming
Medicare and Medicaid are foreign-born -- much higher than their numbers in
the medical profession generally.


Thus, in the Department of Justice's most recent press releases about criminal
convictions for Medicare and Medicaid fraud against the taxpayer -- solely for
the four-day period ending Nov. 7 -- we have:


-- Nov. 7, 2013
Mehran Javidan, owner of Acure, a home health care company in Oak Park, Mich.,
was paid more than $2.2 million from Medicare based on fraudulent physical
therapy files he submitted between December 2008 and November 2010.


-- Nov. 7, 2013
Javed Rehman, Tausif Rahman and Muhammad Ahmad -- no relation to the Tsarneav
brothers -- fraudulently obtained Medicare beneficiary information to bill
Medicare for home health services, swindling approximately $13.8 million from
Medicare.


-- Nov. 7, 2013
Eliza Lozano Lumbreras, San Juanita Gallegos Lozano, Manuel Anthony Puig and
Romelia Puig used their operation of the Mission Clinic and La Hacienda Family
Clinic to submit false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, stealing approximately
half a million dollars from the taxpayers between 2001 and 2006.


-- Nov. 6, 2013:
Karen Kallen-Zury, Daisy Miller and Christian Coloma were convicted for
receiving approximately $40 million from Medicare for patients not eligible
for psychiatric treatment because they were not severely mentally ill.


-- Nov. 6, 2013:
Jose Rojo, Antonio Macli, Jorge Macli and Sandra Huarte in Miami paid patient
recruiters to refer ineligible Medicare beneficiaries to their clinic for
services that were never provided. They were paid more than $11 million in
fraudulent claims to Medicare.


-- Nov. 4, 2013:
Godwin Umotong, Leslie Omagbemi, Munda Massaquoi, Comfort Gates, Ovsanna
Agopian and Boghos Babadjanian were convicted of fraudulently billing Medicare
of millions of dollars for office visits and diagnostic tests that were never
performed, more than $1.3 million of which Medicare paid.


-- Nov. 4, 2013:
William Dale Sidener was convicted of submitting fraudulent bills to Medicare
and receiving $4,677.00 in payments for services not performed.


These are Eric Holder's press releases, not mine.


Do you notice anything that stands out about the list of convicts? Would any
of their names have sounded strange to Ben Franklin? Of 22 people convicted of
defrauding American taxpayers by fraudulently billing Medicare or Medicaid, at
least 17 have almost comically foreign names.


None of the scammers should be foreigners! We can't do anything about our
native-born crooks, but why are we importing them?


Enormous, unwieldy corrupt government programs run by arrogant bureaucrats
would be bad enough in 1950. But after decades of our Third World-only
immigration policies, one can't help noticing that Medicare and Medicaid are
beckoning Disneylands for foreign-born thieves.


The problem isn't their complexion, it's their culture. In America, we think
only dumb people become criminals. That's not true in the Third World!


Nigeria, for example, leads the world in criminal enterprises. Every level of
Nigerian society is criminal, with the smart ones running Internet scams, the
mid-range ones running car theft rings, and the stupid ones engaging in piracy
and kidnapping. At the University of Lagos, you can major in credit card
fraud.


There were almost no Nigerians in the United States until the 1970s. Today,
there are nearly 250,000 Nigerians in the U.S. (committing the cyber-crime
Americans just won't do!). In 2011, we took in more immigrants from Nigeria
than from the United Kingdom (9,246 from the U.K. and 9,344 from Nigeria).


Of course, Obamacare never would have passed without decades of massive
immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn't change any minds -- they
changed the voters. In order to pass Obamacare, Democrats had to bring in the
Third World to vote Democratic.


The downside is that the country is now chock-full of people who come from
cultures where criminality and government corruption is a way of life -- at
the very moment that the country is expanding a government-run health
insurance program already shot through with fraud and abuse.


Only confiscatory tax rates can support such a system.


Gosh, I sure hope our new Somali and Nigerian immigrants have German-style
rectitude and are very honest about reporting all their income to the
government.







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