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Healthcare in America: Guns or Butter?

By Robert David, Esq.

By Benson Weintraub, Esq. FORT LAUDERDALE, FL (October 25, 2008) My interest in health care fraud originated as a white collar criminal defense lawyer in the federal courts with an abiding commitment to academic excellence, particularly in the criminal justice environment. But when the proportion of health care fraud cases in which I participated increased so significantly, this did not occur in a vacuum. So, too, was the proliferation of this type of fraud increasing in prosecution at an incalculable rate. As a scholar in sentencing law and policy, individual and corporate, I intuitively search for explanatory reasons for trends in criminality and reactive public policy on a federal, state, and local level. An holistic approach to fluctuating crime rates, detection and prosecution, sentencing, imprisonment, all require the analyst to address the interplay of predominating political, economic, and social priorities established by governments at every level...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on October 25, 2008 (boomark / email).