The Medicare and Medicaid agencies are not useless, they're just wasteful. This petition pleads that the government addresses the frivolous spending of our money. Instead of downsizing the agency, cutting funding, or getting rid of it altogether, we ask that the government simply tries to maximize the efficiency of this program.
Quick Facts:
The Medicare program cost approximately $491 billion in 2011 (19% of the Federal budget).
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Medicare + Medicaid + Social Security will consume 75% of the Federal Budget by the year 2030.
Medicare clerk reviewers process on average about 400 claims per day, reviewing each for about 72 seconds.
Source:http://www.aapsonline.org/index.php/article/medicare_myths_and_facts/