The U.S. Government spends trillions of dollars on benefits programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid each year. Unfortunately, billions of those dollars are improperly paid, reducing the benefits to those who most rely upon them. In 2016, the White House estimated these losses at $144B.

Improper payments, fraud, and abuse takes many forms, consider some of these examples of Medicaid fraud and abuse:

As I stated in my earlier blog the combination of hardware and pre-configured software is the wave of the future and so examples such as HP & JDE and Oracle Exadata are precursors to the future.