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...does an insurance company know whether a patient really got the care for which it picks up most of the tab? Doctors and hospitals are on the honor system, but some of them cheat. Fraud may account for as much as $75 billion of annual U.S. health-care expenditures, according to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association. Last June California officials uncovered the biggest single medical fraud to date, a $1 billion rip-off carried out by thieves operating clinics on wheels. Investigators say the clinics offered patients free tests and exams, then used their insurance information to generate...
First of all cheating on the type of test we take is simply not that helpful. Smuggling in a cheat sheet or peeking at a neighbor's paper just doesn't help that much on essay questions in the humanities, where you are graded on the ability to quickly string together an argument from a semester's worth of reading and lectures. In many science exams, professors allow you to bring in a page of notes, but I have never found that too helpful. You have to be able to apply the formulas to the problems, a skill that...
Secondly, most Harvard students are too chicken to cheat. We're not willing to jeopardize our Harvard diploma just to raise that B+ to an A-, especially when we know that in every class lurks a few curve-protectors who would gladly rat out a cheater, honor code...
...whose armies occupied Afghanistan as well as Eastern Europe. The tenant in the White House was Ronald Reagan, who spoke for much of the world in denouncing the U.S.S.R. as an "evil empire," led by men who "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat." The No. 1 task of the U.S. was to prevent the Warsaw Pact from invading Western Europe and the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces from launching nuclear war against the American homeland...
...nation's No. 1 tax cheat is Domenico Cannarozzo, 42, who told Rome that his income between 1983 and 1985, when he was unemployed, was only about $9,000. In fact, Cannarozzo failed to report roughly $21 million during those years. His overdue tax bill: more than $13 million. So far, the government has had difficulty locating Cannarozzo. But that should be no surprise to Italian tax authorities: for every delinquent tax bill they manage to identify, they succeed in recovering just 24% of the money...