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LaRouche also defended his personal record during the call. He has served time in prison for fraud and tax evasion--and ran his campaign in 1992 from his prison cell...
Lauersen is being charged with insurance fraud. Prosecutors say he gave couples infertility treatments, like in vitro fertilization, generally not covered by health insurance, and submitted claim forms saying he was treating insured conditions like ovarian cysts. His case is attracting widespread attention both because it is highly unusual for such a prominent doctor to be charged with fraud and because of the impact a conviction could have on the medical profession...
...medical establishment may wink at false claims, but the insurance industry is less amused: it says about 10% of all money spent on health care last year, or $100 billion, was lost to fraud. The cost gets passed on to other consumers, the industry says, in higher premiums. The end result of the false claims submitted by some financially strapped people, says Kathleen Fyffe of the Health Insurance Association of America, is that other financially strapped people cannot afford insurance...
Lauersen's lawyer argued last week that what he did was treat "real sick people" and that the case comes down to paperwork. His defenders deny he committed fraud, or say it would have been justified if he did. People suffering from infertility--as many as one-sixth of all couples--have long criticized insurance companies for refusing to cover the costly treatment required. If Lauersen's billing practices meant poor couples were able to start a family, his backers say, it's not much of a crime...
...better way--tickets you print yourself from ticketmaster.com Just order tickets online, ink-jet them at home, and head out on the town. You get your tickets right away and save on delivery charges. One catch: box offices first have to install bar-code scanners to prevent fraud...