Medicare Payouts

Medicare is a huge social reform program that helps millions of elderly people in the United States pay for their health care. Even though this is a good thing some money is being wasted on something that you might not think of. And even though the amount does not seem like a lot in the big picture but that money could go a long way in paying for some program or facility that is for the better good of society.

                FOX News has reported that over $12 million of Medicare payments have been paid out to people who were deceased. Yes, you read that right. These people who have been dead for some time were still getting payments from their Medicare funds. Whether the money was being sent to the families of the deceased family member or the payments were just transferred into the unclosed bank account $12 million is now gone.

                Even though this story sounds quite bazaar it probably happens all the time. Either the mailing process was out of whack or nobody notified the government that the person was dead that should have known to stop giving out the payments. It just goes to show that with over 300 million people living in the United States it is very hard to keep track of every person at any given time.