Letters to the Editor
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‘State’s $1.1 Billion Surplus Could Put Pressure on Spitzer’
Nobody is FOR Medicaid fraud [New York, “State’s $1.1 Billion Surplus Could Put Pressure on Spitzer,” October 30, 2006]. But even the squint-eyed “nomenklatura” at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency in charge of those two health care programs, estimates Medicaid fraud at about 1.5% of the total Medicaid budget. Eliot Spitzer’s deputy attorney general estimated it at 2%. Nothing to sneeze at, but far from a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for taxpayers.
ARTHUR SPRINGER
Lay Advocate for People With Disabilities
New York, N.Y.
‘So Foul a Sky Clears Not Without a Storm’
It was heartwarming to see chic Barbara Amiel looking so youthful, pretty, and self-possessed [Oped, “So Foul a Sky Clears Not Without a Storm,” October 30, 2006]. Nice as the picture was to see, though, even nicer would be to see her by-line in the Sun again. I look forward to the day when Lord Black’s troubles will be satisfactorily resolved and his good Lady, her mind freed from anxiety, once more a member of the working press.
MERWIN DEMBLING
New York, N.Y.
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