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OPINION: Public option would have good tools for rooting out fraud

Pamela Nadash is an assistant professor of gerontology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Thomas M. Cassidy is a clinical associate professor at the Stony Brook University's School of Social Welfare.

There's much talk about fraud and abuse in government-run health programs. People seem convinced that the public sector is uniquely subject to being ripped off.

Some argue that...

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