Foreigners get free surgery on Medicare

... The Daily Telegraph | Foreigners get free surgery on Medicare NEWS.com.au FOX SPORTS CLASSIFIEDS NEWSPAPERS Search the web NEWS Home Breaking News Top Stories Sport Confidential Business Small Business Entertainment World Opinion Horoscopes Photo galleries Football Play Monopoly The other side Home Story Foreigners get free surgery on Medicare By SUE DUNLEVY February 24, 2006 SICK foreigners are using the Medicare cards of Australian citizens to get free medical treatment in our hospitals.

The Medicare fraud, which is costing taxpayers millions of dollars a year, is possible because our outdated Medicare cards carry no proof of identity.

A Daily Telegraph investigation has found a Victorian man was convicted and fined for allowing his father, a foreigner, to use his Medicare card to claim benefits for laser eye treatments and medical consultations worth more than $3300.

He told investigators he had committed the fraud because he c...

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