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Schumer, Rice push for Medicare fraud crackdown

With the White House pushing for a health care reform bill by year's end, Sen. Charles Schumer said Monday he's backing legislation that cracks down on costly Medicaid and Medicare fraud.

The legislation - to be offered as an amendment to a comprehensive Senate health care reform bill - would beef up federal efforts to track, arrest and convict people who commit Medicare and Medicaid fraud....

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