On 11-10-13, BOB KLAHN said to TIM RICHARDSON:   
      
      
   TR> Here's some more   
      
      
   BK>Nothing beyond this point read.   
      
      
   BK>You really are desperate for my attention.   
      
      
   ~Really~? But  . . . *YOU* are the one who constantly floods the echo with   
   long, drawn-out `replies' to posts I make that are not even addressed *TO*   
   you!   
      
      
   I would say its more like *you* are desperate for MY attention! Otherwise you   
   wouldn't pay attention to me at all. Sometime weeks go by without any message   
   traffic from you...then suddenly a flood of posts with your name in the *from*   
   field, spouting your lies, half-truths, and low-ball accusations. It takes you   
   that long to think up `comebacks'!   
      
      
   You're pathetic!   
      
      
   By the way...here's Ann Coulter's latest column. Read it and choke:   
      
      
      
   To Speak to a Nigerian Prince About Your Health Care, Press '1' Now   
      
      
   Ann Coulter | Nov 13, 2013   
      
      
   In a weird confluence of the nation's two most pressing issues -- Obamacare   
   and our insane immigration laws -- this week we found out that the tens of   
   thousands of "navigators" hired by the government to enroll people in   
   Obamacare will include convicted felons.   
      
      
   Despite some "navigators" having already been exposed as having arrest   
   warrants against them, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has   
   no plans to screen out the criminals. (But rest assured: If your identity is   
   stolen as a result of trying to sign up for Obamacare, no one will be more   
   upset about it than President Obama.)   
      
      
   Maybe it's a blessing that the Obamacare website has crashed more often than   
   the Soviet Union's commercial air fleet did.   
      
      
   In addition to convicted felons, navigators are drawn from labor unions,   
   community organizers, former ACORN staffers and front-groups for the   
   Democratic National Committee.   
      
      
   Call right up and give all your private financial and medical information to   
   those guys! What could go wrong? (Before Obamacare was even online,   
   Minnesota's health exchange emailed the Social Security numbers and other   
   identifying information for about 2,400 Americans to a man applying to be a   
   "navigator.")   
      
      
   If you call today, you can sign up for Obamacare plus learn about a Nigerian   
   prince in exile who's willing to share his vast inheritance with you in   
   exchange for your bank account numbers.   
      
      
   Which reminds me, federal health insurance programs have long been a prime   
   target for scammers and con artists.   
      
      
   To much fanfare, in 2006 Medicare announced that only 7 percent of its   
   payments were a result of fraud. Two years later, The New York Times reported   
   that it was actually 31.5 percent -- and that Medicare had aggressively hidden   
   the fraud from outside auditors.   
      
      
   Do you think a privately run insurance company would take three years to   
   notice that one-third of its payouts had been obtained by fraud? But with   
   federal programs, there's a powerful incentive not to look for fraud. That   
   would merely vindicate critics of big government!   
      
      
   In 2012, Medicare's crack investigators noticed that more than a billion   
   dollars in home health care payments for 2008 had gone to one single county in   
   Florida -- more than all such payments made to the rest of the entire country.   
      
      
   Do you think it would take five years for a private insurer to figure out it   
   had been scammed out of $1 billion by a few health care professionals in one   
   county?   
      
      
   Anyone else would notice being stolen from, but not the government. It's not   
   their money.   
      
      
   Wherever there's a government program, there's a gigantic opportunity for   
   criminals. A staggering percentage of the health care workers scamming   
   Medicare and Medicaid are foreign-born -- much higher than their numbers in   
   the medical profession generally.   
      
      
   Thus, in the Department of Justice's most recent press releases about criminal   
   convictions for Medicare and Medicaid fraud against the taxpayer -- solely for   
   the four-day period ending Nov. 7 -- we have:   
      
      
   -- Nov. 7, 2013   
   Mehran Javidan, owner of Acure, a home health care company in Oak Park, Mich.,   
   was paid more than $2.2 million from Medicare based on fraudulent physical   
   therapy files he submitted between December 2008 and November 2010.   
      
      
   -- Nov. 7, 2013   
   Javed Rehman, Tausif Rahman and Muhammad Ahmad -- no relation to the Tsarneav   
   brothers -- fraudulently obtained Medicare beneficiary information to bill   
   Medicare for home health services, swindling approximately $13.8 million from   
   Medicare.   
      
      
   -- Nov. 7, 2013   
   Eliza Lozano Lumbreras, San Juanita Gallegos Lozano, Manuel Anthony Puig and   
   Romelia Puig used their operation of the Mission Clinic and La Hacienda Family   
   Clinic to submit false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, stealing approximately   
   half a million dollars from the taxpayers between 2001 and 2006.   
      
      
   -- Nov. 6, 2013:   
   Karen Kallen-Zury, Daisy Miller and Christian Coloma were convicted for   
   receiving approximately $40 million from Medicare for patients not eligible   
   for psychiatric treatment because they were not severely mentally ill.   
      
      
   -- Nov. 6, 2013:   
   Jose Rojo, Antonio Macli, Jorge Macli and Sandra Huarte in Miami paid patient   
   recruiters to refer ineligible Medicare beneficiaries to their clinic for   
   services that were never provided. They were paid more than $11 million in   
   fraudulent claims to Medicare.   
      
      
   -- Nov. 4, 2013:   
   Godwin Umotong, Leslie Omagbemi, Munda Massaquoi, Comfort Gates, Ovsanna   
   Agopian and Boghos Babadjanian were convicted of fraudulently billing Medicare   
   of millions of dollars for office visits and diagnostic tests that were never   
   performed, more than $1.3 million of which Medicare paid.   
      
      
   -- Nov. 4, 2013:   
   William Dale Sidener was convicted of submitting fraudulent bills to Medicare   
   and receiving $4,677.00 in payments for services not performed.   
      
      
   These are Eric Holder's press releases, not mine.   
      
      
   Do you notice anything that stands out about the list of convicts? Would any   
   of their names have sounded strange to Ben Franklin? Of 22 people convicted of   
   defrauding American taxpayers by fraudulently billing Medicare or Medicaid, at   
   least 17 have almost comically foreign names.   
      
      
   None of the scammers should be foreigners! We can't do anything about our   
   native-born crooks, but why are we importing them?   
      
      
   Enormous, unwieldy corrupt government programs run by arrogant bureaucrats   
   would be bad enough in 1950. But after decades of our Third World-only   
   immigration policies, one can't help noticing that Medicare and Medicaid are   
   beckoning Disneylands for foreign-born thieves.   
      
      
   The problem isn't their complexion, it's their culture. In America, we think   
   only dumb people become criminals. That's not true in the Third World!   
      
      
   Nigeria, for example, leads the world in criminal enterprises. Every level of   
   Nigerian society is criminal, with the smart ones running Internet scams, the   
   mid-range ones running car theft rings, and the stupid ones engaging in piracy   
   and kidnapping. At the University of Lagos, you can major in credit card   
   fraud.   
      
      
   There were almost no Nigerians in the United States until the 1970s. Today,   
   there are nearly 250,000 Nigerians in the U.S. (committing the cyber-crime   
   Americans just won't do!). In 2011, we took in more immigrants from Nigeria   
   than from the United Kingdom (9,246 from the U.K. and 9,344 from Nigeria).   
      
      
   Of course, Obamacare never would have passed without decades of massive   
   immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn't change any minds -- they   
   changed the voters. In order to pass Obamacare, Democrats had to bring in the   
   Third World to vote Democratic.   
      
      
   The downside is that the country is now chock-full of people who come from   
   cultures where criminality and government corruption is a way of life -- at   
   the very moment that the country is expanding a government-run health   
   insurance program already shot through with fraud and abuse.   
      
      
   Only confiscatory tax rates can support such a system.   
      
      
   Gosh, I sure hope our new Somali and Nigerian immigrants have German-style   
   rectitude and are very honest about reporting all their income to the   
   government.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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