You Get What You Elect

Continuing a series of posts about the people that we as Americans choose to make and enforce the rules of the society in which we live.

Is it a surprise that the two doctors who have most efficiently gamed the Medicare system for tens of millions of dollars in questionable, but technically legal charges are also massive campaign donors to the federal legislators who oversee Medicare?  The New York times exposes the connections between the doctors and the politicians.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/business/doctor-with-big-medicare-billings-is-no-stranger-to-scrutiny.html?ref=business

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