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As Congress wrangles over the debt ceiling, the federal budget, and the future of entitlement programs, it's clear that the nearly $500 billion spent each year on Medicare will remain a topic of great interest. 

And it should be: Medicare, which provides health coverage for elderly and disabled Americans, is second only to Social Security in its share of the federal budget. As it figures out what to do with Medicare, however, Congress needs to take a close look at the level of fraud in the system and focus on reducing it before asking seniors who have paid into the system their entire lives to accept poorly conceived benefit reductions or co-pays.  Congress, in short, should declare war on Medicare fraudsters, not the seniors that benefit from the program.

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