on Sep 3rd, 2007Home Health Aide Industry Oversight Practically Blind
The task of getting old is not for loners. The ability to maintain your daily living activities can unexpectedly become interrupted by disease, an accident, or just plain old age. That’s when you need the help of a caregiver or home health aide. Like anything that can be billed to the government, though, fraud rears its Medicare head and makes puppets out of those who can least afford it.
Don’t expect much oversight from the Bush administration for the home health care business. Old Georgie is too busy rattling the pans in the foreign policy kitchen, ranting about how Iran knows how to use a nuclear blender, to take an interest in more mundane things like your continued existence.
As Home Health Care Industry Booms, Little Oversight to Counter Fraud