60 Minutes, 10.25.09
October 25, 2009 5:00 PM
Steve Kroft investigates Medicare and Medicaid fraud; Also, Katie Couric reports on epilepsy; Plus, Byron Pitts reports on writer/producer/director, Tyler Perry.
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Having just watched the Medicare segment, it is pretty weak reporting when the premise is $60 BILLION dollars of looting of the system. Wow, so you got some guy to admit to $20 Million. What about the other $59 Billion and change? Hmm. It wouldn't be insurance companies, would it? Perhaps advertisers on CBS? What a shock that would be.
trusted that every topic has been well investigated and reported. Tonight
I saw something that truly disturbed me,
During the piece on Medicare fraud it was reported that homeless people
were being recruited off the street to use in fraud schemes. During this
you showed a short film clip of a person on the street being approached by
another person. It appeared that it was taken with a security camera.
The part thats so disturbing is that I recently saw this same clip in
Micheal Moores film on Health care, called Sicko. He was telling the
story of patients without health plans being dropped off outside homeless
shelters.
So why and how was this clip used in your situation. I am very upset by
this and wondering what other clips or details have been taken from other
sources!!!
I hope you will ensure this doesnt happen again but I am not sure I will
ever be able to trust you again. Shame on you.
However, one thing that bothers me is how celebrities often seem to campaign for research into whatever disease or issue affects their family. For instance, there is Nancy Reagan trying to get funding and political support for stem cell research because it might have cured her precious Ronnie's Alzheimer's disease. Gee, she had never seemed to notice the devastation caused by that disease before it affected her family.
Let's stop our endless wars, bring our troops home, and start spending our treasure on basic needs such as affordable housing, basic health care, real job training, and research into diseases such as epilepsy, because in the end they affect us all, and we're all in this together, however much many would like to deny it.
One other thing: Why does no one bat so much as an eyelash when we borrow hundreds of billions of dollars for needless wars of choice such as Iraq and Afghanistan but health care has to be deficit neutral? You know, it's not as though we're setting-up a system that we'll never be able to change again. That is, we should set up a system and keep tweaking it until it works. The real work lies in setting national priorities, which is of course what out elected representatives are paid to work out.
For, even though the people elect them, they actually seem to only do the bidding of the lobbyists and special interests that fund their campaigns. The truth is that we've plenty of money; we're just misallocating it.
I tell you people, what we need is a revolution!