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Steven Holt: “They know that Medicare has an overhead of about 2 percent. So if I may make a small correction on what the gentleman…”

On the recordMarch 17, 2010
They know that Medicare has an overhead of about 2 percent. So if I may make a small correction on what the gentleman has said. There is waste and fraud in Medicare. I think the gentleman said a lot; actually, it is a little. But when there are 44 million beneficiaries, almost 45 million beneficiaries, a little bit of error, a little bit of fraud can add up to a lot of money. But the program itself, if you count administrative costs as well as waste, fraud, and abuse, it is a couple of percent. In other words, almost all of the money in Medicare goes to providing health care.
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Mar 17, 2010

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The speaker addresses the efficiency and costs associated with Medicare.

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