Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doctor, for example, would prescribe medicine for a healthy Medicaid beneficiary, who would fill the prescription at a crooked pharmacy. The "patient" would then sell the medicine for about 10% of its value to a "diverter," who would repackage and resell it, often on the black market in Puerto Rico. In New York City, this sort of scheme is known on the street as "playing the doctor." Law- enforcement officials estimate that these and many other forms of fraud drain upwards of $75 billion from the U.S. health-care system every year...
...would be bad for someone to say, "They didthis to me because I was Puerto Rican or Chineseor Jewish or Black,' when they were wrong in thefirst place," said Douglas A. Allen III, a Blackguard posted in Dunster House...
...then newly elected Puerto Rican governor, Carlos Romero Barcello, was in favor of the territory becoming a U.S. state, Rigau said. Barcello engineered "a wave of state-created terrorism" to convince skeptics of his government's stability, according to Rigau...
Rigau said his main concern is to start a "cleansing process" in Puerto Rico and in the relations between the country...
...This is an event that does not make the United States or Puerto Rico feel proud," Rigau said...