Andrew Ferguson on Medicare Fraud: Rich Insurance Companies and Unscrupulous Brokers Were the Only Beneficiaries, ‘That’s Fixed Today’

RUSH EXCERPT:
FERGUSON: "Not a single American patient was benefiting from the problem we are fixing today Not one I will tell you who was benefiting though Insurance agents and insurance companies were reaping billions of dollars from these problems No Americans were helped by this No patient was benefited by the duplicate coverage They were getting coverage from one or the other and the money was otherwise vanishing into the pockets of insurance agents and insurance companies If you care about the ACA if you want the ACA to work you should be thanking every single person on this stage because the only way that it survives is if these problems are fixed that the fraud is stopped and that integrity is restored It was a choice a conscious choice in the previous administration to do nothing about this and it helped no one No patient was benefiting from this Rich insurance companies and unscrupulous brokers were the only beneficiaries of this That is fixed today Americans Are going to have coverage today tomorrow, from the programs that we are protecting No one loses coverage as a result of this but money that was otherwise going to enrich giant insurance companies and insurance brokers is now going to stay in these programs and go to the people who actually need it And that is what the anti-fraud effort is ultimately about"