The article you linked to does almost nothing to make the case for poor management of Medicare / Medicaid. In fact, it does a pretty good job of saying that a

The article you linked to does almost nothing to make the case for poor management of Medicare / Medicaid. In fact, it does a pretty good job of saying that a program which provides health services for 1/6th of our population is waging a pretty darn good fight against an army of people who want to defraud it. Probably the only thing in the article that could be called "waste" is the policy of "pay and chase", which they then immediately note is improving. Sure, there are an army of medical professionals that want to scam the Fed, but its not like Medicare / Medicaid's just sitting there and letting them be scammed. I mean really, if you're going to pick on a gov. program, you probably shouldn't go for one of the better run ones in the Fed, maybe try the DoD. Now them,... they've got some waste. How many times has the DoD said it doesn't want more tanks? "Oh, what's that, you say you want more tanks? Here's 50 billion. Make it happen. In my district."