> Medicare fraud of $80 MILLION!? Holy shit.

More than $80M. That's the thing. Imagine how much fraud there is for smaller amounts that will never be discovered, prosecuted and partially clawed back.

Medicare/Medicaid are huge systems where there is little incentive to discover fraud. Nobody gets a huge bonus if they find fraud. And that's why big government run programs have this stereotype about them that they are mismanaged and rife with fraud. And rightfully so.