n terms of savings for you as a Medicare recipient," President Obama told a town hall attendee yesterday, "the biggest (change) is on prescription drugs, because the prescription drug companies have already said that they would be willing to put up $80 billion in rebates for prescription drugs as part of a health care reform package." "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money," the late Senator Everett Dirksen is supposed to have said.* And so it is today with health care fraud, a burgeoning crime plague that's adding up in a big way, big-ticket scheme after big-ticket scheme, essentially costing you money every time you walk into a hospital or doctor's office or fill a prescription, whether you know it or not. The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association estimates that this fraud collectively costs Americans between $60 billion and $100 billion a year. Ouch. What would be the savings encountered when streamlining paperwork? What would be the cost savings when "reforming" tort law? What would be the savings when reforming Malpractice claims? Give me a break, proposing to get "into my life" alienate me from my most basic liberties, control the very independence of what it is to be an AMERICAN. Washington NEEDS to fix the problems on their doorstep and stay away from mine! With those numbers above do you honestly believe I will forfeit my patriotism for your ineptness ( http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inept) to correct the problems you have right now, but are unwilling to pursue? Not until Washington listens...