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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
&gt; People are frustrating. I ask them, who do you personally know who is actually abusing government assistance?

Maybe you just aren't asking the right people? I have had a lot of experience through my profession of people trying to scam the system to get assistance they didn't need. People asking for disability forms to be filled out stating they are permanently disabled because of back pain when they are walking into the office with no assistance whatsoever. Women coming in for pregnancy tests and WIC forms telling me that they had to get pregnant because they wanted a bigger apartment and the government wouldn't give them a bigger one unless they had another child. Asking for prescriptions for diabetes fingerstick tabs because, as I later learned from a colleague, there is a huge black market for them and they get medicaid to pay for it and then sell them for cash. Asking me to fill out a form stating they need home care so their family member can get hired as the home health aid and get paid for it. This was a common occurrence that we dealt with regularly in a previous job. And the unfortunate thing is that while I wouldn't fill out these forms, there are unscrupulous providers who only care about making the patient happy so they get repeat visits and good hcahps scores who would fill them out when those with professional ethics refused. So just because you don't see it or because these types of abuses are hidden from the statistics due to patient confidentiality doesn't mean they don't exist.
gpt
&gt;Maybe you just aren't asking the right people?

You're missing my point. I'm asking the people that I personally know that are concerned with this issue to try to change their mind, the point is they do not even see it happening in their own lives. They're purely concerned about it because fox news says so, and has said for decades. I know *some* people do abuse it, my ex did. But when you look at the statistics, it's not significant. When you look at studies of trying to reduce fraud, it costs more money than it saves. Other than scrapping it altogether, all you can do is accept some low level of fraud for the stability it brings to the people who do need it. You'll never cut fraud to 0. Any program, any population, there will be abuses. That's not something to focus on to the degree that they do. It's a misdirection. Squabble about someone asshole getting free chips and not the CEO that bought out your company that laid you off. Or whoever the fuck you should really be mad at for your financial situation or where your tax dollars go. I'm not even joking when I say the military probably spends more on pens than they do on food stamps. It's just.. not the financial black hole theyve been made to believe it is.