Comments on: Medicare’s Low Administrative Costs Cost You $60 Billion a Year http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/26/medicare%e2%80%99s-low-administrative-costs-cost-you-60-billion-a-year/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:18:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Claude Cornell http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/26/medicare%e2%80%99s-low-administrative-costs-cost-you-60-billion-a-year/#comment-67191 Claude Cornell Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:04:30 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18036#comment-67191 This certainly shows that there is just as much crime on Main Street as there is on Wall Street. Almost as much as there is in Washington, that's where the biggest scammers are. The lie of the century is, "We are the U.S. Government and we have all the answers." This certainly shows that there is just as much crime on Main Street as there is on Wall Street.

Almost as much as there is in Washington, that's where the biggest scammers are. The lie of the century is, "We are the U.S. Government and we have all the answers."

]]> By: Grassroots in Nebraska: In the News: October 22-28, 2009 | Grassroots in Nebraska http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/26/medicare%e2%80%99s-low-administrative-costs-cost-you-60-billion-a-year/#comment-66221 Grassroots in Nebraska: In the News: October 22-28, 2009 | Grassroots in Nebraska Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:11:31 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18036#comment-66221 [...] Medicare’s Low Administrative Costs Cost You $60 Billion A Year By Conn Carroll, Heritage Foundation; October 26, 2009 [...] [...] Medicare’s Low Administrative Costs Cost You $60 Billion A Year By Conn Carroll, Heritage Foundation; October 26, 2009 [...]

]]> By: $60 Billion in Medicare Fraud | www.statehousecall.org http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/26/medicare%e2%80%99s-low-administrative-costs-cost-you-60-billion-a-year/#comment-64608 $60 Billion in Medicare Fraud | www.statehousecall.org Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:24:43 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18036#comment-64608 [...] health care? You’ll hear that line over and over again. How efficient is it, though, to waste $60 billion a year in paying fraudulent claims, including to men who do nothing but sit in strip malls and collect [...] [...] health care? You’ll hear that line over and over again. How efficient is it, though, to waste $60 billion a year in paying fraudulent claims, including to men who do nothing but sit in strip malls and collect [...]

]]> By: Alex Adrianson, Wash http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/26/medicare%e2%80%99s-low-administrative-costs-cost-you-60-billion-a-year/#comment-64213 Alex Adrianson, Wash Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:49:18 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18036#comment-64213 For an in-depth discussion of how the private sector fights fraud better than Medicare and Medicaid, see “The Government’s Health Care Fraud Problem” <a href="http://(http://www.insideronline.org/archives/2009/summer/HealthCareFraud_Pg18-25.pdf)" rel="nofollow">(http://www.insideronline.org/archives/2009/summer/HealthCareFraud_Pg18-25.pdf)</a> by Merrill Matthews and Meredith Matthews in the Summer 2009 issue of The Insider. For an in-depth discussion of how the private sector fights fraud better than Medicare and Medicaid, see “The Government’s Health Care Fraud Problem” (http://www.insideronline.org/archives/2009/summer/HealthCareFraud_Pg18-25.pdf) by Merrill Matthews and Meredith Matthews in the Summer 2009 issue of The Insider.

]]> By: Jeanne Stotler, Wood http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/26/medicare%e2%80%99s-low-administrative-costs-cost-you-60-billion-a-year/#comment-64200 Jeanne Stotler, Wood Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:04:38 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18036#comment-64200 The hospitals I worked with did not use ECT, they used drugs instead, Medicare and Medicaid fraud are present and some get by for a while, thing is there is always someone out there to abuse a system, and there always will be. Insurance companies often turn down doctors who want to try some new drug because of cost, then we need to get Pharm. cos. to lower the cost. The Pharm. cos make big money and spend big money, they have huge expensive meetings, give huge bonuses and trips etc. I recently had a colonoscopy and the prep was turned down even when my doctor told them of underling conditions, the person doing this had no medical training, just read from a manuel. I have a History of Cancer in my family, when my surgeon ordered blood work to look for predisposition, it was turned down, I did win on appeal, this was very trying.A gov't run plan will lead to more abuse and fraud, which means more people checking, and most will not have medical training or background. The hospitals I worked with did not use ECT, they used drugs instead, Medicare and Medicaid fraud are present and some get by for a while, thing is there is always someone out there to abuse a system, and there always will be. Insurance companies often turn down doctors who want to try some new drug because of cost, then we need to get Pharm. cos. to lower the cost. The Pharm. cos make big money and spend big money, they have huge expensive meetings, give huge bonuses and trips etc. I recently had a colonoscopy and the prep was turned down even when my doctor told them of underling conditions, the person doing this had no medical training, just read from a manuel. I have a History of Cancer in my family, when my surgeon ordered blood work to look for predisposition, it was turned down, I did win on appeal, this was very trying.A gov't run plan will lead to more abuse and fraud, which means more people checking, and most will not have medical training or background.

]]> By: Mike, Wichita Falls http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/26/medicare%e2%80%99s-low-administrative-costs-cost-you-60-billion-a-year/#comment-64166 Mike, Wichita Falls Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:04:40 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18036#comment-64166 The $60 billion in Medicare fraud is almost as shocking as the fact that 60 Minutes did this story. Thank you, CBS. Oh that all of the MSM actually did the job of a truly free press as the founders envisioned...expose government waste, fraud and abuse. Unfortunately, I am numb to this number as Medicare is in the hole $36 trillion. I believe that if the people had known the truth of this and all other government excesses, which are legion, we would not be in this mess. Hopefully, there is still time to save the ship for our kids. The $60 billion in Medicare fraud is almost as shocking as the fact that 60 Minutes did this story. Thank you, CBS.

Oh that all of the MSM actually did the job of a truly free press as the founders envisioned…expose government waste, fraud and abuse.

Unfortunately, I am numb to this number as Medicare is in the hole $36 trillion.

I believe that if the people had known the truth of this and all other government excesses, which are legion, we would not be in this mess. Hopefully, there is still time to save the ship for our kids.

]]> By: Bobbie Jay http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/26/medicare%e2%80%99s-low-administrative-costs-cost-you-60-billion-a-year/#comment-64141 Bobbie Jay Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:09:14 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18036#comment-64141 Thank God it's been exposed. 95% is fraud, which means 95% of obama's claim that everyone wants his health care plan is FRAUD! Clearly, the government doesn't want to remove the corruption, THEY WANT TO INCREASE AND MANAGE MORE OF IT. Obama claims insurance industries over charge and don't live up to their obligation? Obviously, using what the government is and has been doing and to fabricate it as a private sector concern. But the government created they're own little program at tax payers expense, called "oversight." Instead of jumping in where they don't belong, government is NEGLECTING GOVERNMENT TAX PAID DUTY? The people don't need your corruption or your ethic to keep it going. We deserve HONESTY AND THE WHOLE TRUTH. NO GOVERNMENT INCOMPETENCE ANYWHERE IN OUR LIVES YET, IT'S EVERYWHERE. This country and the people need nothing from an illegitimate government of corruption and their exorbitant actions and expenses. Thank God it's been exposed. 95% is fraud, which means 95% of obama's claim that everyone wants his health care plan is FRAUD!

Clearly, the government doesn't want to remove the corruption, THEY WANT TO INCREASE AND MANAGE MORE OF IT.

Obama claims insurance industries over charge and don't live up to their obligation? Obviously, using what the government is and has been doing and to fabricate it as a private sector concern. But the government created they're own little program at tax payers expense, called "oversight." Instead of jumping in where they don't belong, government is NEGLECTING GOVERNMENT TAX PAID DUTY?

The people don't need your corruption or your ethic to keep it going. We deserve HONESTY AND THE WHOLE TRUTH. NO GOVERNMENT INCOMPETENCE ANYWHERE IN OUR LIVES YET, IT'S EVERYWHERE.

This country and the people need nothing from an illegitimate government of corruption and their exorbitant actions and expenses.

]]> By: Maria, NC http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/26/medicare%e2%80%99s-low-administrative-costs-cost-you-60-billion-a-year/#comment-64131 Maria, NC Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:44:32 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18036#comment-64131 Wouldn't most fraud be easily solved with these two simple solutions? 1) Social security # identified patient copays on EVERY charge (including hospital, lab, device, and other charges as well as charges on public plans), resulting in a third of a billion sets of knowledgeable eyes scrutinizing every line item (information that must be sent to the social security number's taxpayer address) plus 2) Tax policy which encourages non-employment linked high deductible catastrophic plans with HSAs covering the deductible amount. Wouldn't most fraud be easily solved with these two simple solutions?

1) Social security # identified patient copays on EVERY charge (including hospital, lab, device, and other charges as well as charges on public plans), resulting in a third of a billion sets of knowledgeable eyes scrutinizing every line item (information that must be sent to the social security number's taxpayer address) plus

2) Tax policy which encourages non-employment linked high deductible catastrophic plans with HSAs covering the deductible amount.

]]> By: PoliticallyCorrect1, http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/26/medicare%e2%80%99s-low-administrative-costs-cost-you-60-billion-a-year/#comment-64013 PoliticallyCorrect1, Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:15:13 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18036#comment-64013 So, the Internet is buzzing about the recent airing of the 60 minutes show concerning Medicare. I must say that I was pretty shocked at what I was hearing. I didn’t quite understand the entire ordeal until I came across a clip on YouTube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h4AmViGPh8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h4AmViGPh8</a>. The Big Talker breaks down exactly what the government is doing, It’s such a shame! So, the Internet is buzzing about the recent airing of the 60 minutes show concerning Medicare. I must say that I was pretty shocked at what I was hearing. I didn’t quite understand the entire ordeal until I came across a clip on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h4AmViGPh8. The Big Talker breaks down exactly what the government is doing, It’s such a shame!

]]> By: Leon, Durango, CO http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/26/medicare%e2%80%99s-low-administrative-costs-cost-you-60-billion-a-year/#comment-63972 Leon, Durango, CO Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:53:58 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18036#comment-63972 Perhaps you have heard of the terrifying stories of people in Psychiatry being shocked into stupidity by Electro Convulsive Therapy. The doctors kicked the TV and sometimes that did something for the patient so they thought "Let's kick all their heads with electricity!" This really is junk science, but the 'good' doctors have been doing this for years. There are terrifying and horrible "Treatments" and "Therapies" not the least being CHEMO. It is nice to know there is more FRAUD in some of these crazy medical practices and we have the right not to be victimized by them, even when the government is going to pay for them. "We are going to wipe your brain clean of all those troubling thoughts. But don't worry, the government will pay for it!" Your private Health Savings Account coupled with a catastrophic Health Insurance Policy will be the cheapest way to go. Get the deductible ($10,000 for example) for the amount you have saved up. Watch these devils in government very carefully, be sure that our mandated coverage will contain something like this. And BE SURE THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO ENFORCE INSANE AND BARBAROUS "TREATMENTS" ON US. Perhaps you have heard of the terrifying stories of people in Psychiatry being shocked into stupidity by Electro Convulsive Therapy. The doctors kicked the TV and sometimes that did something for the patient so they thought "Let's kick all their heads with electricity!" This really is junk science, but the 'good' doctors have been doing this for years. There are terrifying and horrible "Treatments" and "Therapies" not the least being CHEMO.

It is nice to know there is more FRAUD in some of these crazy medical practices and we have the right not to be victimized by them, even when the government is going to pay for them. "We are going to wipe your brain clean of all those troubling thoughts. But don't worry, the government will pay for it!"

Your private Health Savings Account coupled with a catastrophic Health Insurance Policy will be the cheapest way to go. Get the deductible ($10,000 for example) for the amount you have saved up. Watch these devils in government very carefully, be sure that our mandated coverage will contain something like this. And BE SURE THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO ENFORCE INSANE AND BARBAROUS "TREATMENTS" ON US.

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