Another Bush fraud

A long time ago, someone working in the insurance industry told me that Medicaid fraud was much more widespread than most folks recognized. Allegations of such fraud underlie one theory of attorney-gate -- about which, more anon.

Today, Larisa Alexandrovna and Lindsay Beyerstein bring us the tale of Dr. Eric J. Keroack, who recently -- and quite abruptly -- resigned as Dubya's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services. Naturally, Keroack is an advocate of abstinence until marriage; he is also an opponent of birth control, even within marriage.

This guy just ain't into porking. But he likes another kind of pork:

When Dr. Keroack took stewardship of Population Affairs in 2006, Massachusetts’ medical licensing board had already spent roughly a year reviewing a complaint that he had violated ethical norms by prescribing medications for people who weren’t his patients, had practiced outside of his area of specialty and had attempted to defraud the insurance system.

Also of interest: During the appointment process, Keroack claimed that he had practiced obstetrics (practiced "his love," as Bush might put it) for 20 years. Turns out the period was more like five years.

Dubya sure knows how to pick 'em, eh wot?