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He was obviously referring to preventable deaths and treatable sicknesses.
Yeah I've heard that song and dance before, but there are some serious flaws in that logic.
1. A lot of treatments that exist today didn't exist 100 years ago... Kinda hard to save someone with a medical treatment that didn't even exist at the time.
2. A lot of the lack of access actually had to do with transportation, not finances.
3. The ability to detect cancers for instance among other things didn't exist 100 years ago.
I hope Chairman Ryan takes a look at this:
The five biggest lies about entitlement programs - latimes.com
He needs a reality check on how much he can expect to "save" from the General Fund, by cutting supposed "entitlement" expenditures that don't even come from the General Fund in the first place.
Actually, what Chairman Paul Ryan would like to do is introduce some more accountability into the equation.
The double billing for instance alone could potentially save billions...
There are a lot of things that can probably be cut out of it without harming any of the services.
Now I don't hear anyone attacking McCain. I think that's because nobody is afraid he will run for President. Paul Ryan is not the enemy of the middle class. The left simply does not like the man's politics. He's just the other side of the spectrum. Something necessary for a republic and a democracy to thrive.
Reducing taxes on the rich does not mean he is increasing taxes elsewhere. It means he wants to reduce taxes and cut spending. Something Democrats don't want to happen. Hence the attacks on Paul Ryan.
What YOU are suggesting wouldn't be a problem. But that's not the idea that Paul Ryan has become famous for, and that he has reintroduced. Paul Ryan is famous for his idea of turning the Medicare program into an "insurance support" voucher, which would give you a fixed amount to go out and buy your own insurance in the (for profit) market. That's not exactly what you are suggesting.
Given the amount of waste fraud and abuse in the Federal Government currently, I would trust a Used Car salesman more than some of the clowns that are going to be running healthcare under Obamacare.
The vast majority of Medicare fraud is committed by doctors and private companies, not by Medicare itself. For instance, the Scooter Store overbooked medicare by a hundred million, and basically were allowing people to get power chairs when they didn't meet Medicare requirements.
Learn your facts folks! Most Medicare fraud is committe by PRIVATE industry.
Most of the Medicare fraud that is caught involves Private industry, that doesn't mean that's where most of the fraud is taking place.
Thank you for warming my brain.
It's called people being held accountable, private industry is held accountable when they pull shannigans. Fact is the government doesn't hold itself accountable for the shannigans it pulls.
What shenanigans are you suggesting get pulled? How are those shenanigans "fraud"?
Most of the Medicare fraud that is caught involves Private industry, that doesn't mean that's where most of the fraud is taking place.
Also, the government constantly changes their codes for billing among other things, so a lot what you are citing can be simple paperwork errors due to arbitrary code changes on the forms that have to be filled out...
You've never heard of medical "mills" that churn out fake billings for serves that were never provided? Of course, these are organized criminal enterprises for the most part. It's a racket.
That's why privatizing Medicare would only make the problem worse, because there would be no oversight. We need to keep Medicare single-payer, and close the loopholes that the criminals keep finding. Attack those vulnerabilities that the criminals seem to know about, in the way that Medicare claims are processed, that allow certain things to occasionally go under the radar.
Here's a link:
USDOJ: Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 91 Individuals for Approximately $430 Million in False Billing
Please note the context of my query: I was asking GarfieldJL "what specific shenanigans are being pulled in the public sector?" since he strongly implied that most fraud is committed by those in the public sector.
I work for CMS.
Paper work errors are not considered fraud. If a coding error occurs, the provider can resubmit the claim with the correct information.
Medicare has no reason to defraud itself nor is there anyway for Medicare to actually do it. How does Medicare defraud itself may I ask?
The overwhelming majority of fraud is from the providers, the rest is from beneficiaries submitting their own claims.
Yeah, explains why a guy whom was missing both eyes, had to go to an eye doctor to see if his vision had improved, cause the Federal Government was trying to say he was somehow no longer disabled...
I mean seriously, since we don't have things like VISORS yet, I think it's safe to say his vision hasn't improved without wasting the our tax money and that guy's time.
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