Healthcare in America: Guns or Butter?
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. Sometimes, this permits a remedial integration of resources to conserve capital outlay and expenditures. In other cases, however, the aggregation of social, economic, and legal policies which governments face must be driven by a maximization and continuity of provider-type services.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, FL (October 19, 2008) Economic prognosticators theorized a maximization of wealth through a combination of largely unregulated commercial notes and instruments including sub-prime mortgages secured or subject to credit default swaps or government backed securities; irrespective, the taxpayers were ultimately left holding the billion dollar bag while the investment banks and financial institutions profited by a billion-dollar is the federal government’s subsidies and bailout.
