The Palm Beach Post: To pay for the health reform bill, Medicare fraud is "ripe for plucking, top South Florida prosecutors say." "In 2008, of all the Medicare payouts for home health care services nationwide, over 50 percent were shelled out in Miami-Dade. That was despite the fact that only 2 percent of patients receiving such federally-funded care in the U.S. live in the county. Much of the billing was fraudulent." "Critics argue that trimming Medicare by $500 billion is unrealistic and benefits will suffer if that amount is cut. But [U.S...

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