| By Stephen Dinan The federal government has paid out
more than $1 billion in checks to dead people over a decade,
according to a new report by the top Republican on the Senate's
investigative panel.
All told, the government has paid out funds to some 250,000 dead
people, said Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, ranking Republican on the
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee on
investigations.
"Washington paid for dead people’s prescriptions and wheelchairs,
subsidized their farms, helped pay their rent, and even chipped in
for their heating and air conditioning bills," Mr. Coburn's report
said.
Among the payments to dead people were $18 million in stimulus funds
from Social Security, $92 million in Medicare claims paid for
treatments prescribed by dead doctors*
and $8.2 million for medical supplies prescribed for dead patients.
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And the dead people, grateful for the
government largess, faithfully voted democratic in every election...
*I'm curious: when a dead doctor performs a
physical examination on a dead patient, would that be coded as an
autopsy?
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