It's a Carson campaign link, but it's to an AP story. The article is about Oklahoma's (Democratic) Attorney General, Drew Edmondson, who says that Coburn absolutely committed Medicaid fraud, and explained why. Coburn's spokesman, John Hart, responds with the typical GOP response of, paraphrased, "all criticism from Democrats is partisan and therefore invalid."

But later on, Hart gives away the store:

The spokesman also said the ad's claim that Coburn asked the woman not to talk about the sterilization was "a blatant lie."

Hart said Coburn asked her not to say anything because "he was trying to protect his patient so she wouldn't be stuck with medical bills."

If Coburn was trying to save his patient from medical bills, he must have known that Medicaid would not pay for the procedure if Medicaid knew about it. That means he knew the rules and violated them so that Medicaid would pay for a procedure that he knew was not covered.

That, dear friends, is Medicaid Fraud. Dr. Coburn is lucky the statute of limitations has run out.

(Oh, btw, don't miss Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert saying that Coburn is probably going to lose.)