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#1 2007-05-19 09:06:12

rae
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Registered: 2007-05-19
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game vs. gain

“Game the system” (i.e. manipulate the system)—saw this written as “gain” the system.

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#2 2007-05-19 09:35:14

jorkel
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Re: game vs. gain

Quite a few can be extracted from a Google search if you include “fraud” with “gain the system”—but I can’t always tell whether “gain” is used legitimately to mean “acquire” or as an eggcorn of “game”...

Transcript of the January 13, 2005 NCVHS Subcommittee on Standards …So fraud and abuse can be viewed either at a patient level, at a prescriber level, ... this was very easy to do, to gain the system – in a Medicaid program, ...
www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/050113tr.htm – 341k – Cached – Similar pages

Customs Service investigating scam involving contraband apparel …”We’ve got somebody who has been trying to gain the system, but as a result I can’t say anything because I don’t want to give anyone any ideas’ she said. ...
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m5072/is_6_25/ai_97920285 – 33k – Cached – Similar pages

Online NewsHour: Supreme Court Watch—June 16, 2003… to stand trial on charges that he engaged in a variety of health care fraud. ... that in light of this ruling, defendants could gain the system? ...
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june03/scotus_6-16.html – 36k – Cached – Similar pages

HRSA/MCHB 2005 FEDERAL/STATE PARTNERSHIP MEETING… who actually specialized in helping people learn how to gain the system. ... IT, fraud abuse and financing, and then there will be two presentations on …
www.cademedia.com/archives/mchb/partner … ts/27a.htm – 23k – Cached – Similar pages

Center for Immigration Studies… there is a greater—far less incentives to gain the system through just … some of the flaws in the system—was based completely on identity fraud. ...
www.cis.org/articles/2001/terrorpanel.html – 168k – Cached – Similar pages

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