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Medicare paid millions to prisoners
Food stamps. Free meals. Cable TV. Unemployment and disability benefits. And now prescription drugs. It’s a good time to be in prison, where inmates are mistakenly receiving tens of millions of dollars in benefits at taxpayer expense. The latest folly comes compliments of Medicare, which gave such poor oversight to its prescription coverage that it allowed $11.7 million in drug benefits to go to inmates from 2006 to 2010, according a report released Monday by the Health and Human Services inspector general...Read More
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