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Posted on 12/31/2009 10:06:46 AM PST by Velveeta
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Yep.
The Mayo Clinic, which has been praised by President Obama as an exemplar for the healthcare industry, will no longer accept new Medicare patients at a primary-care clinic in Glendale, AZ, a Phoenix suburb. While this office serves only a small portion of Mayo’s 526,000 patients in Minnesota, Arizona, and Florida, the organization says that the Glendale clinic is part of a 2-year pilot that will determine whether Mayo continues taking care of Medicare patients at other facilities. Meanwhile, the 3,000 Medicare patients who see family doctors at the Glendale office will have to pay nearly $2,000 a year out of pocket if they want to stay with their physicians.
Mayo is going in this direction because it lost $840 million last year on Medicare. Its Arizona hospital and four primary-care clinics lost $120 million. Nationwide, physicians earn about 20 percent less from Medicare than they do from private payers, but there’s no evidence that most are losing money on Medicare. In a Bloomberg article, Dr. Robert Berenson of the Urban Institute is quoted as saying that some primary-care physicians can afford to do without Medicare “because there is an unlimited demand for their services.” In areas where private health plans pay much more, Medicare looks like a poor payer, he adds.
Nevertheless, the Mayo experiment highlights the grim realities facing Medicare. Even at the current payment rates, the Medicare Trust Fund, which covers inpatient care, is expected to go bankrupt in 2017. General tax revenues and beneficiary premiums guarantee the solvency of Medicare Part B, the outpatient program, but neither higher taxes nor the current rise in premiums is popular. Cutting doctors’ fees is not politically acceptable, either. To keep those fees stable for the next decade, the House recently passed a supplemental spending bill of nearly $200 billion, and the Senate is expected to follow suit, in return for the AMA’s support of its reform bill.
Ironically, the original version of the public option required that providers accept Medicare-level fees for people under 65.http://bit.ly/7ncMh4
In the past few days we were contacted by a law enforcement source about a plot by members of the same Jamaat al-Fuqra compound in Hancock to engage in a massive tax return fraud plot using contacts obtained through mosques in New York and using the money to send to their sheikh, terrorist leader Mubarak Gilani, in Pakistan. Al-Fuqra recruits heavily in prisons, and many male members of the group are convicted felons.
Law enforcement source: Jamaat al-Fuqra/Muslims of America involved in tax return fraud plot
"FUQRA or its members have been investigated for alleged terrorist acts including murder and arson in New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, Toronto, Denver, Los Angeles and Tucson. UL FUQRA is suspected of more than thirteen fire bombings and, at least, as many murders within the United States.
Right?
Did you ever think some of these idiots were intentionally placed in order to do their deeds and then move on???Hummmmmmmm
With a supposedly knowledgeable person heading the department who says illegal aliens are not breaking the law when they cross the borders en masse ILLEGALLY, one can only wonder how secure we are when we (or SHE) doesn’t have the first clue who’s here who savagely wants to hurt us until we’re all dead. It’s not a warm and fuzzy feeling. Watch the Netflix movie “Border” - it’s excellent!
California abc7
Firefighters investigating hazardous-materials report: railroad car leaking fuel near Terminal Island http://bit.ly/4UGjhl
I boarded a plane with an aerosol can’
By Colette Hume
BBC News
Colette Hume on board her flight to the US
Security measures for flights inbound to America stepped up a gear following the attempted attack on a plane heading for the US on Christmas Day.
How then was I was able to unwittingly carry a 200ml hairspray can - twice the liquid limit - onto a Qantas flight to the US, after two separate supposedly rigorous security checks? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8440067.stm
Placing the perverts, marxists, communists and maoists in his realm of expertise is destroying every last shred of credibility this president has. If he had to speak without his telepromter, he'd come off as a stumbling (uh-ing) not so sharp or witty icon. Foreign leaders have figured it out already; he and compliant democrats and media plan to bring America to its knees and offer global governance as our salvation (with help from Soros, foreign governments and the masters of global finance).
Every time I think of the "green" agenda, I can't help but think of the slime behind it.
Hey you should join me on the daily GB thread :) Tis fun comrade
January 5, 2010- Freed Guantánamo inmates are heading for Yemen to join al-Qaeda fight
It would be very easy to fly with hairspray in a carry-on. They make those little purse sized bottles of it - I have some tucked away for when I travel. Mine came with those "name" brand shampoos. I would imagine it would be easily flammable were a match to be ignited near it.
Great Minds and all that......I just ordered “Border” from Netflix.
To add insult to injury, I hear that Janet Incompetano is on the short list for the next Supreme Court justice.
More blood shooting out of my eyeballs!
Yep hairspray - match = boom!
Pretty soon I’m guessing no carry ons
OMG THAT is unbelievable - she’s an idiot.
I’m gonna watch the Bachelor now ;p Need to clear my head with some junk TV.
On my last few flights, I have not even had a “carry-on”. Just a rather largish purse, in which I can take my quart size baggie with essentials, cosmetics, and the ever essential panti-liners (Hey, you just never know). I even take my 7-inch laptop in my purse.
Really saves alot of time at security, and once on the plane, I just laugh at all the other passengers trying to squeeze their over sized bags in the over head bins.
Thanks to TravelSmith, I’ve been able to purchase a very light weight wardrobe (mix and match) that will all fit in one piece of luggage, even for a two-week trip. I’ve learned to travel light.
Those on medicaid will be the only ones to get healthcare & us, the baby boomers,the only thing Obamacare is dispensing
Whatever I thnk of them for years is not good. I fought most of them in Illinois and here
Well, we knew she was one we fought on the border issue. I hope I remember to rent the movie. Looking forward to the series of Border Wars
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