The crooks are getting lazy--going after Medicare

And these crooks are not in Congress. This is just old fashion street crime. Kelly Kennedy of Associated Press has gone all Glenn Beck on us and is actually reporting with a front page story (in the Columbus Dispatch) on Medicare fraud. Now if Medicare is so expensive, poorly managed and there is crime and fraud, and it is government health care for a very small percentage of the American public, why not clean it up first to demonstrate the government can take on a bigger job--that of insuring all of us?

"Lured by easier money and shorter prison sentences, Mafia figures and other violent criminals are increasingly moving into Medicare fraud and spilling blood over what was once a white-collar crime.

Around the nation, federal investigators have been threatened, an informant's body was found riddled with bullets, and a woman was discovered dead in a pharmacy under investigation, her throat slit with a piece of broken toilet seat.

For criminals, Medicare schemes offer a greater payoff and carry much shorter prison sentences than offenses such as drug trafficking or robbery." Google News

To answer my own question. Obama's take over of the health care system has nothing to do with cost, improving coverage, or reducing waste. It's all about power. More for him, less for us.