I read this article and every single comment.
It was disgraceful and appalling.
United states is falling down the xenophobic part.

http://news.yahoo.com/speak-nigerian-prince-health-care-press-1-now-000008077.html

In a weird confluence of the nation's two most pressing issues -- Obamacare and our insane immigration laws -- this week we found out that the tens of thousands of "navigators" hired by the government to enroll people in Obamacare will include convicted felons.

Despite some "navigators" having already been exposed as having arrest warrants against them, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has no plans to screen out the criminals. (But rest assured: If your identity is stolen as a result of trying to sign up for Obamacare, no one will be more upset about it than President Obama.)

Maybe it's a blessing that the Obamacare website has crashed more often than the Soviet Union's commercial air fleet did.

In addition to convicted felons, navigators are drawn from labor unions, community organizers, former ACORN staffers and front-groups for the Democratic National Committee.

Call right up and give all your private financial and medical information to those guys! What could go wrong? (Before Obamacare was even online, Minnesota's health exchange emailed the Social Security numbers and other identifying information for about 2,400 Americans to a man applying to be a "navigator."

If you call today, you can sign up for Obamacare plus learn about a Nigerian prince in exile who's willing to share his vast inheritance with you in exchange for your bank account numbers.

Which reminds me, federal health insurance programs have long been a prime target for scammers and con artists.

To much fanfare, in 2006 Medicare announced that only 7 percent of its payments were a result of fraud. Two years later, The New York Times reported that it was actually 31.5 percent -- and that Medicare had aggressively hidden the fraud from outside auditors.

Do you think a privately run insurance company would take three years to notice that one-third of its payouts had been obtained by fraud? But with federal programs, there's a powerful incentive not to look for fraud. That would merely vindicate critics of big government!

In 2012, Medicare's crack investigators noticed that more than a billion dollars in home health care payments for 2008 had gone to one single county in Florida -- more than all such payments made to the rest of the entire country.

Do you think it would take five years for a private insurer to figure out it had been scammed out of $1 billion by a few health care professionals in one county? Anyone else would notice being stolen from, but not the government. It's not their money.

Wherever there's a government program, there's a gigantic opportunity for criminals. A staggering percentage of the health care workers scamming Medicare and Medicaid are foreign-born -- much higher than their numbers in the medical profession generally.

Thus, in the Department of Justice's most recent press releases about criminal convictions for Medicare and Medicaid fraud against the taxpayer -- solely for the four-day period ending Nov. 7 -- we have:

-- Nov. 7, 2013

Mehran Javidan, owner of Acure, a home health care company in Oak Park, Mich., was paid more than $2.2 million from Medicare based on fraudulent physical therapy files he submitted between December 2008 and November 2010.

-- Nov. 7, 2013

Javed Rehman, Tausif Rahman and Muhammad Ahmad -- no relation to the Tsarneav brothers -- fraudulently obtained Medicare beneficiary information to bill Medicare for home health services, swindling approximately $13.8 million from Medicare.

-- Nov. 7, 2013

Eliza Lozano Lumbreras, San Juanita Gallegos Lozano, Manuel Anthony Puig and Romelia Puig used their operation of the Mission Clinic and La Hacienda Family Clinic to submit false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, stealing approximately half a million dollars from the taxpayers between 2001 and 2006.

-- Nov. 6, 2013:

Karen Kallen-Zury, Daisy Miller and Christian Coloma were convicted for receiving approximately $40 million from Medicare for patients not eligible for psychiatric treatment because they were not severely mentally ill.

-- Nov. 6, 2013:

Jose Rojo, Antonio Macli, Jorge Macli and Sandra Huarte in Miami paid patient recruiters to refer ineligible Medicare beneficiaries to their clinic for services that were never provided. They were paid more than $11 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare.

-- Nov. 4, 2013:

Godwin Umotong, Leslie Omagbemi, Munda Massaquoi, Comfort Gates, Ovsanna Agopian and Boghos Babadjanian were convicted of fraudulently billing Medicare of millions of dollars for office visits and diagnostic tests that were never performed, more than $1.3 million of which Medicare paid.

-- Nov. 4, 2013:

William Dale Sidener was convicted of submitting fraudulent bills to Medicare and receiving $4,677.00 in payments for services not performed.

These are Eric Holder's press releases, not mine.

Do you notice anything that stands out about the list of convicts? Would any of their names have sounded strange to Ben Franklin? Of 22 people convicted of defrauding American taxpayers by fraudulently billing Medicare or Medicaid, at least 17 have almost comically foreign names.

None of the scammers should be foreigners! We can't do anything about our native-born crooks, but why are we importing them?

Enormous, unwieldy corrupt government programs run by arrogant bureaucrats would be bad enough in 1950. But after decades of our Third World-only immigration policies, one can't help noticing that Medicare and Medicaid are beckoning Disneylands for foreign-born thieves.

The problem isn't their complexion, it's their culture. In America, we think only dumb people become criminals. That's not true in the Third World!

Nigeria, for example, leads the world in criminal enterprises. Every level of Nigerian society is criminal, with the smart ones running Internet scams, the mid-range ones running car theft rings, and the stupid ones engaging in piracy and kidnapping. At the University of Lagos, you can major in credit card fraud.

There were almost no Nigerians in the United States until the 1970s. Today, there are nearly 250,000 Nigerians in the U.S. (committing the cyber-crime Americans just won't do!). In 2011, we took in more immigrants from Nigeria than from the United Kingdom (9,246 from the U.K. and 9,344 from Nigeria).

Of course, Obamacare never would have passed without decades of massive immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn't change any minds -- they changed the voters. In order to pass Obamacare, Democrats had to bring in the Third World to vote Democratic.

The downside is that the country is now chock-full of people who come from cultures where criminality and government corruption is a way of life -- at the very moment that the country is expanding a government-run health insurance program already shot through with fraud and abuse.

Only confiscatory tax rates can support such a system.

Gosh, I sure hope our new Somali and Nigerian immigrants have German-style rectitude and are very honest about reporting all their income to the government.

http://news.yahoo.com/speak-nigerian-prince-health-care-press-1-now-000008077.html


Follow me on nairaland and I will sure follow back

yeeee, this is so disgusting.

By default, the whites are stup!d.
Sometimes they think like a kid and try to incite u to anger...

When u react accordingly, they get happy, when u dnt, they get mad and look foolish..

i'm talking from experience.
The id!ot who wrote this article only wanted attention and biliv me, he will get it..

it won't be hard to knw that it was deliberate!

Ignore the id!ot, big time!

Lol! Dis one na real uppercut the woman give us o! Chai!! So sad!

(committing the cyber-crime Americans just won't do!).

So what this Nitwit is trying to say is that Americans don't do fraud??
What a naïve writter•

This mad woman wants attention• But then, anyone can write what ever they want• I can write a piece here on Nairaland, slandering Americans too•

These attacks and disrespect these days from outsiders call for a tangible reaction•

Na wa oh if people wan give negative examples na Nigeria them de use, of all the country for this world na Nigeria be the perfect example for scammers thieves and all other crime related stuff 9ija no get one single good thing when other countries fit take make good example.
Abi na crime say I enter nairaland one day and see topic like this " Fobes rank Nigeria the best place to live in 2013" lol
to be sincere the statement look odd if person see that one for paper he go feel say na typing error if e never be book haram /unknown gun men kill 20 students or police kill 2 Nigerian students in a peaceful protest or Botswana/ Congo/Nije/Togo deport 42 Nigerians
Na be say no be Nigerian news be that


wetin be the meaning of unknown gun men self Ah 9ija no go kill person

VERY SOON THEM GO PUT THE WORD NIGERIA FOR DICTIONARY AS ONE OF THE SYNONYMS FOR FRAUD
Then instead of "HE WAS ARRESTED FOR HIS FRAUDULENT ACT"
Americans be like "HE WAS ARRESTED FOR HIS NIGERIAN ACT" lolllllllz.

naija for life......we jst know how to modify things,proud f dat

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I am really not concerned about what some journalist writes about my country. I am more concerned about the official stand of the American Government.

I read the piece twice and I really don't see the issue there, at least the writer made a snide comment on Russia, about planes falling from the sky.

Anyway, the writer is entitled to her/his opinion and it is obvious she/he is writing based on sentiment and the piece is not value free.

I have gotten to a stage of not caring what some stranger thinks about me and my country.

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Truth hurts

Why is anyone surprised? It was written by the ghost looking pale faced ugly witch called Ann coulter.....

Na Nigerians dey bring this kind disgrace upon themselves. From politicians to the average person. Few rotten eggs dey give us bad name. It is very sad.

What a naive write up.This is disgusting to say the least.

If I tell you say I understand wetin I read i.e wetin the op post make I bend for here.

I have gotten over all this bullshit, they can think whatever they like, IDGAF.

The only appalling thing is that some idiots in this country (including them useless leaders) treat these MTFs like gods when they come here.

Brb

Waat da heck

engineerd: Why is anyone surprised? It was written by the ghost looking pale faced ugly witch called Ann coulter.....

Ann Coulter? why is her name at the bottom of this page from cnnireport

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1061227

The writer of the article is a delirious racist and an inconsequential riffraff, spewing nonsensical drivel just to spite Obama care.

The other day, it was BBC writing its own. I can still remember some model who teased lagosians on twitter asking if they wear clothes.

Wake up Nigerians, what's the way forward?

how can someone possibly major in credit card fraud at the university... the writer is obviously ignorant...like say dem no get hackers for USA wey dey commit cybercrime...dumb and silly write up,

Stuff lyk dese didn't just start n will likely not end anytime soon

Take it from someone that spends a lot of time in America, racism is back with a VENGEANCE!

They don't try to hide it at all anymore. People in public will give you mean looks, call your children n*ggers in school, they call the President disgusting names. Every online news article is filled with comments from open, unashamed racists. And the society no longer cares.

The attacks on Obamacare are based in the same racial hatred that has driven much of his opposition. The writer of this article KNOWS that Ted Cruz was called racist for comparing Obamacare to Nigerian scammers, and she DOES. NOT. CARE. She included Nigeria because she ENJOYS being racist, and wants people to be upset.

Read the article and how they lie that we teach credit fraud in Naija Universities. It is disgusting.

America has become openly racist again, and it's not changing anytime soon.

[size=15pt]BTW - Nigerians are the most educated immigrant group in the US! Higher academic achievement than Britons, Germans, Chinese, etc, etc. EVEN MORE EDUCATED THAN THE AMERICAN WHITES!

"According to 2006 census data, 37 percent of Nigerians in the U.S. had bachelor's degrees, 17 percent held master's degrees and 4 percent had doctorates. In contrast, the same census data showed only 19 percent of white Americans had bachelor’s degrees, 8 percent held master’s degrees and only 1 percent held doctorates, the paper reports."[/size]

I don't want to include the source for fear of the anti spam bot, but the info can be easily found using Google.

berem: Lol! Dis one na real uppercut the woman give us o! Chai!! So sad!

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I am not surprised. Upon all the education and resources available many white people are idi0ts. Rubbish article!

tnx to d yahoo boys n dia fellow looters @d top, them poligicians n jet-men of God...

btw, the writer mumu wehweh for relying on bbc report...afterall integrity is my watchword

Though some of her assertions are ON POINT e.g Nigeria's culture is one of criminality and corruption.....but her delivery sounds condescending and has some racial superiority undertones.....Well the bad eggs amongst Nigerians seem to have a louder voice, but i'm not in anyway fazed cause a lot of Nigerians are contributing positively to the American society e.g

This is a big insult!! F.u.ck yahoo and the article writter...no wonder they loosing customers like dana airline.

No wonder almost half of the world take them as enemy!! (America)