Letter: Treat Medicare fraud more seriously

I recently read a story in the Daily Herald about the Lombard clinic accused of fraud. What I cannot understand is why these Medicare fraudsters usually get away with a slap on the wrist and someone who used to get caught with a joint got real jail time.

Who does more damage to the community?

We constantly hear about these cheaters amassing millions on taxpayers' backs, and they get three years in prison and return to their cushy lives.

Where's the deterrent?

Politicians rail about the cost of Medicare and how it will go broke in X number of years. Anything would go broke with so many fraudsters using something like it's the own little piggy bank.

Rosemary Colbert

Schaumburg