$1 Billion Owed in Medicare Taxes

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Time Magazine

A Senate panel is asking why more than 30,000 Medicaid providers — doctors and others in the health care field — owe at least $1 billion in back taxes and still receive federal payments for their services.

Some of those identified in a government report even live in luxury, residing in million-dollar homes, driving high-dollar vehicles and withdrawing tens of thousands of dollars from casinos.

The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations planned to explore ways the government can collect the unpaid taxes when it takes up a report Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.

"Those people who are deadbeats have to pay their taxes," Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., said Tuesday. The panel's top Republican, he had requested the report.

The GAO looked at doctors, hospitals and other Medicaid providers in seven states — California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. Medicaid is the federal-state partnership that provides health coverage to about 55 million poor people.



Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1683793,00.html

[Vincardog]

1. The fix is simple. Tax the Corporations.

[guruoo]

2. Tax campaign donations?

Well? Think about it.