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Protecting Patients: The
False
Claims Act discourages companies from selling unsafe medical
equipment and technologies and discourages doctors and
hospitals from performing unnecessary surgeries and
procedures. By providing disincentives for medical fraud,
the False Claims Act saves lives.
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Protecting Consumers: The False
Claims Act discourages companies from shorting consumers on
the numbers of pills purchased, repackaging old medicines
and presenting them as new, and charging consumers more than
what they should be paying for health care equipment,
procedures and medicines. By helping ferret out fraud, the
False Claims Act not only works to contain health care
costs, it also helps consumers save money.
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Protecting Soldiers: The False
Claims Act discourages government contractors from supplying
guidance systems that do not guide, weapons that do not
fire, and helicopters that crash. By helping ensure that our
soldiers, airmen and sailors have equipment that operates in
the field, the False Claims Act saves lives and makes us a
stronger nation.
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Protecting Senior Citizens and the
Disabled: The False Claim Act discourages nursing homes
from delivering substandard care to nursing home patients,
and price-gouging the Medicaid program for goods and
services. By bolstering the financial integrity of Medicaid,
the False Claims Act helps protects America's oldest,
poorest and most vulnerable.
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Protecting the Environment: The
False Claim Act discourages oil, timber and mining companies
from ripping off U.S. taxpayers by extracting resources from
public lands without adequately paying for that right. In
addition, the False Claims Act is a powerful disincentive
for companies to lie to the federal government about toxic
waste cleanup and pollution abatement efforts. By helping to
put more teeth into our environmental protection laws, the
False Claims Act works to protect our natural environment
for generations to come.
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