60 Minutes on Healthcare with Steve Kroft

Last night on CBS’ 60 minutes show, Steve Kroft discusses and investigates Medicare and Medicaid fraud .
During the segment on healthcare, Steve Kroft discusses the severity of healthcare. President Obama stated that, “rising costs are driving huge federal budget deficits that imperil our future, and that there is enough waste and fraud in the system to pay for health care reform if it was eliminated.” Kroft discussed how “healthcare” is an industry .He talks about the unconsciousness of American taxpayers and how they have no knowledge of how they are being robbed. FBI Special Agent Brian Waterman, said that “the only visible evidence of the crimes are the thousands of tiny clinics and pharmacies that dot the low-rent strip malls”.
"You're wakin' up every day makin' $20,000, $30,000, $40,000. Every day, almost literally. And you're like 'Wow I just won the lottery,'" a man named "Tony" told Kroft. Before he (Tony) was brought down by the government he was making a lot of money using a fake medical supply company out of a building that were supposedly maunfacturing wheel chairs and to Medicare patients. He told Kroft he stole about $20 million from Medicare. He told Kroft it was "real easy." "And you're not exactly a criminal mastermind,Kroft asked. "No. No," Tony said. "No, not really. It's more like common sense." Kroft ended by saying that that he doesn’t like to refer to the healthcare industry as that because he feels that his health should be more than an industry.