>>>What I'm asking you and others for is some real evidence, not anecdotes, that the number of people who are abusing the welfare system is a significant percentage of the number of people receiving assistance. Of course, there are some cheats (as there are in pretty much any system), but the question is whether they are a large enough subset as to render the whole program invalid.
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>>>Tamar
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>>http://www.dss.cahwnet.gov/fraud/PG270.htm
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>>Just in California for 2007-2008.
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>Still anecdotes. How about offering numbers? percentages?
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>Frankly, if that's all California has for 2007-08, even if we acknowledge that it's only the ones they caught, it's a pretty small set. How many people live in California? How many receive welfare?
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>Tamar

Are you well?
Did you even read the article?
California has big financial probelms and that all you can say? You think these are small numbers?

"While exact figures are difficult to tally, experts estimate as much as $300 billion a year is lost to health care fraud in the United States "

"$34 billion annually to provide care for about 7 million indigent Californians - with about $3 billion of that lost to fraud, experts say.."

Geezzz Tamar stop rationalizing.