the waste in the current Medicare practices and procedures. So significant, the elimination thereof would finance 2/3 of the new health care reform (or insurance reform or what ever makes it sell better).
If it is known in such detail for the POTUS to embellish, then why do we have to wait for health care reform to eliminate the waste?

The waste is the fuel for the special interest groups and lobbyists that have our representatives in their pocket.

I would think it would be reasonable to expect, as part of the new reform legislation, a commitment, a plan, some one responsible/accountable to make the savings happen.

In my opinion there will be nothing done. No plan = no action. No responsibility/accountability = no results.

Default result? A tax increase.

Hopefully I am wrong.

Do you think the savings will be realized and why?

btk

Originally Posted by billethkid

the waste in the current Medicare practices and procedures. So significant, the elimination thereof would finance 2/3 of the new health care reform (or insurance reform or what ever makes it sell better).
If it is known in such detail for the POTUS to embellish, then why do we have to wait for health care reform to eliminate the waste?

The waste is the fuel for the special interest groups and lobbyists that have our representatives in their pocket.

I would think it would be reasonable to expect, as part of the new reform legislation, a commitment, a plan, some one responsible/accountable to make the savings happen.

In my opinion there will be nothing done. No plan = no action. No responsibility/accountability = no results.

Default result? A tax increase.

Hopefully I am wrong.

Do you think the savings will be realized and why?

btk

I don't believe meaningful savings will be realized. There is NO incentive in the federal government to seek out and abolish waste. Power is enhance and remuneration enlarged proportionately to the size of ones budget. The only time that savings is accomplished is when a government department head is threatened with loosing his/her wholw department if cuts are not found.

With health care a whole NEW department will need to be created and staffed. Budgets and incomes of the employees will depend on their increasing the perception of their importance and if the department worked as good as OB would have us believe, the department would no longer be necessary. Cuts like that are never found in government. Too many piglets feeding on the pig.

...see my proposals in a separate thread entitled, "Two Questions I Would Ask".

Criminal investigation is always a matter of competing priorities coupled with finite resources.

There's always more crime than there are investigators to go after it. "Money" crimes always fall lower in the "chase it down" ladder than "bodily harm" crimes, and those who commit the "money" crimes know this. For them, it's a matter of "what's the potential of risk to getting caught."

"Money" crimes usually take a very long time (months to years) to research, gather facts, corroborate findings, compile and validate evidence, and the seek an indictment. Law enforcement tries to after the worst, first; and that usually means the "bodily harm" crimes take precedence.

HR 3200 (and the other plans) provide for NO repeat NO increase in the staffing or funding of the Department of Justice entities (FBI and US Attorney's Office) which would tackle the criminal investigation and prosecution of those committing fraud. So, any talk about these plans reducing Medicare fraud are hollow.

Obama has been quite insincere and lied and deceived. I don't believe a word that comes out his mouth. I just watch what he does and who his cronies are and that's all you need to know to get where this thug is coming from.

I think we are know what is reasonable to do about health care for this country.

Now if we can just get the Constitution re-instated from Obama's takeover and give the States' their rights back, we be on the right road.