Comment by AnthonyMouse

12 hours ago

> They waste billions on fraudulent claims because they don't fund the program well enough to have compliance enforcement or auditing.

These are synonyms for having higher overhead, right? If you pay a billion dollars in claims with ten million dollars in administrative costs then your "administrative overhead" is 1%, even if half the claims are fraud. If you increase "administrative costs" to a hundred million to get rid of the fraud, in practice you just saved 410 million dollars but now your "administrative overhead" is up to 20%.