I know this has been making the rounds for some time because this is the second time my Dad has sent it to me and the first was some time ago.  The link to Fox News, at least, is legitimate.  Does anyone know anything about the underlying story?

 

IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free!! The offer is true. Zukerman, US News and World Report, owner, a Democrat, was interviewed on Fox and confirmed it. IBM has confirmed it. You won't believe it!

 

IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free!

 

What if I told you that the Chairman and CEO of IBM, Samuel J. Palmisano, approached President Obama and members of his administration before the healthcare bill debates with a plan that would reduce healthcare expenditures by $900 billion? Given the Obama Administration's adamancy that the United States of America simply had to make healthcare (read: health insurance) affordable for even the most dedicated welfare recipient, one would think he would have leaned forward in his chair, cupped his ear and said, "Tell me more!"