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2009-08-05 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-08-05 13:58|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 "Government will decide which Medicare services have value and which do not. "

OMG! Folks please keep govt from taking away our medicare. Look at the Post Office. Imagine what it would be like if the Govt was running medicare!!!

Posted by liberal hawk 2009-08-05 15:21|| 2009-08-05 15:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Anyone familiar with Medicare should find that program by itself to be dispositive regarding the question of government competence to run any domestic social service program. This is reinforcing failure, but with numbers too large for any human to truly comprehend.

Posted by Iblis 2009-08-05 16:19|| 2009-08-05 16:19|| Front Page Top

#3 No more evil "cherry-picking."

A concept that worked so well in extending home ownership to people who banks would normally refuse to lend money to because they didn't have the real capacity to pay it back. Home ownership for everyone! Now - maximum medical care regardless of cost. Doing to our health system what they did to the housing market! Watch government funded speculation distort and then destroy the regular health insurance market. All in the name of the poor [who still don't have home ownership].

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-05 16:20|| 2009-08-05 16:20|| Front Page Top

#4 The major absurdity is the huge unfunded Medicare liability being neglected at the same time the pols want to launch an even larger unfunded liability to cover more of the population. And they say they're going to pay off one by cutting expenditures on the other. This situation doesn't pass the "laugh out loud" test.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-08-05 16:23|| 2009-08-05 16:23|| Front Page Top

#5 I work in Healthcare IT and the "Government" decided about three years ago to set up new universal IDs for Providers (NPI numbers). This was to simplify the large number of IDs Needed in the past e.g. Medicare, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Medicaid etc.

It took two years to change over and much disruption. Some of my Doctor clients had their Medicare payments stopped for up to 6 months because of "Clerical Errors".

Then they decide that one ID was not enough so the insissted on olaso linking the SSN or EIN to the NPI. Now they are adding a TPPN id to be linked to the NPI and the SSN or EIN. What's next. It's now been three years and there is no end in sight.

All of this to "simplify" the Provider ID system?

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-08-05 18:05|| 2009-08-05 18:05|| Front Page Top

#6 In 2 years, I'll be ~~required to join~~ screwed by Medicare. I HATE the very idea of it.

Any chance Bambi et al. will screw up gummint health "care" so bad they'll have to drop Medicare too?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-05 18:38|| 2009-08-05 18:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Ok, you're all busted. How dare you say anything bad about Emporer 0bama's healthcare plan?! I'm reporting you all to snitch@whitehouse.gov!

Posted by Parabellum 2009-08-05 19:17|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-08-05 19:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Obama's health care plan is a grab for power and money. Health care is one of the remaining areas that is somewhat solvent.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-08-05 19:35|| 2009-08-05 19:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Its a scheme to have everyone even more dependant on the STATE - so they will be enslaved to the state.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-08-05 20:13|| 2009-08-05 20:13|| Front Page Top

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