<p>Mini- Medicare is efficient? My mom’s podiatrist got paid for two procedures which were allegedly performed AFTER she had died; after a few weeks of trying to sort it out, one of the bureaucrats actually said to me, “This isn’t coming out of your pocket- why are you working so hard to fix this?” I said, “Well it is coming out of my pocket- or at least the pockets of my fellow taxpayers, and I think it’s egregious”.</p>
<p>Turns out MANY services get billed and reimbursed for dead people- and it takes angry citizens to try and get the government paid back.</p>
<p>That’s an efficient system?</p>
<p>I have more inane stories of the alleged efficiencies but it would give me heartburn and I have a high deductible policy…</p>