Medicare Program open to fraud for Americans

Americas medicare and medicaid program is more than open to convicts taking full advantage of the prescription-drug program. In a recent report, it claims that Medicare cant verify all the prescriptions paid for leaving convicts open to make fake medical id numbers and even playing as dead medical doctors. In 2007, CMS showed nearly $1.2 billion paid for 18 million prescriptions with ID numbers that had been deactivated or unlisted in all drug classes. A solution is being made in the event that this problem will decease over time as the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) makes all "Schedule II" drugs which include heavy painkillers and highly addictive pharmaceuticals necessary to have a " DEA number or other valid prescriber identifier, spokesman Peter Ashkenaz said. Doctors must have a DEA number to prescribe Schedule II drugs." The DEA number on each prescription is anticipated to be highly effective as the number contains data to protect against potential fraud which can cost the taxpayers from $60 billion to $90 billion of our money! In the article provided by Wall Street Journal which explains this situation American taxpayers suffer with in a deeper manner. This article has much meaning to us as we can see problems are being resolved and acted on by the American government; instead of focusing on issues that have no resolutions at all which is shoved in our face every day by main stream media. Like to see a little sigh of relief when problems dealing with billions of dollars is being resolved... ahh...