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8note01/04/20261 replyview on HN

would it actually be that different of a bill?

i imagine its already doing the most expensive part, treating people who are almost dead who have lots of procedures that could be done.

picking up people that need basically no care sounds pretty cheap by comparison


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WalterBright01/04/2026

Estimates of Medicare errors, fraud and abuse are around $60 billion. Greatly increasing the scope of it will, inevitably, increase that figure.

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