Posted on 04/12/2010 2:23:07 PM PDT by kcvl
Per Drudge...server too busy to get article
We’ve got Obamacare, we don’t need no stinking hospitals.
“Pop Quiz:
What happens to prices / costs when supply is reduced? “
Well because we live in Commie La La Land the prices will go down and everyone who visitis the hospital will get a unicorn to take home that will crap solid gold nuggets of pure joy....
The Libs think like this:
Supply = Demand
ergo. Low Supply = Low Demand
We think like this:
1 Demand
______ _________
Supply = 1
Low Supply = High Demand
High Supply = Low Demand
Supply is Inversly Proportional to Demand and vice Versa.
It’s already hard enough to find a doctor in Memphis who will take Medicare patients.
Better expressed as this:
Supply = 1 / Demand
“Server is too busy” Drudge has overwhelmed CNS news.
I guess they could follow the Prohibition speakeasy model!
And our hospital is facing yet another layoff at the end of the month, 2nd in 5 months, and may close!! Our own treasurer, Cahill, was on Beck and stated this health care bill will cause hospital closures across MA. I would be more concerned with closures than even the inability to add rooms or any additions. Everyone there is a basket case wondering if they are the next to go.
So the medical gravy train is over.
Just like the hospital Michelle worked at, that she put programs in place for, for the hospital to turn the poor away and send them to the lesser effective “clinics”. They actually turned patients away!
Related — posted by Vendome:
Clock ticks on doc-owned hospital construction
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2491634/posts
“Just like the hospital Michelle worked at, that she put programs in place for, for the hospital to turn the poor away and send them to the lesser effective “clinics”. They actually turned patients away!”
Well, if we’re talking about sending people with the sniffles to a clinic rather than being treated in a trauma center, changes like that may actually makes sense. Other industries do this all the time.
My guess is that the worst is yet to come for patients AND conscientious health care personnel.
B.O. claims that under his Obamacare scheme that he will root out medical fraud.
I doubt it.
All the med fraud cases seen in the news lately were initiated under the Bush administration or by state agencies.
State recovered $283 million
in Medicaid fraud in 2009
CARA MATTHEWS • Journal Albany Bureau •
April 12, 2010
ALBANY — Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s
Medicaid fraud office recovered more than $283
million and obtained 148 criminal convictions last
year, according to a report released today.
The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit’s mission is to
protect vulnerable patients from neglect and abuse
and ensure that taxpayer money is safe and secure,
Cuomo said in a statement.
“Our Medicaid Fraud Control Unit continued to be a
national leader in 2009, garnering a record number
of criminal convictions and recovering hundreds of
millions of taxpayer dollars,” he said.
The unit has recovered nearly $660 million in
taxpayer funds in the past three years. That includes
103 convictions and $113.8 million in restitutions
ordered in 2007 and 144 convictions and $264.5
million in restitutions, the report said.
State records show that there were 776 convictions
and a total of $674.3 million in restitutions
collected between 1999 and 2006.
This year’s report comes as lawmakers are seeking
to increase fraud-detection efforts as a way to help
New York out of its fiscal crisis.
Cases, settlements, convictions and achievements
detailed in this year’s report include:
— An Operation Home Alone investigation of
corruption in the home-care industry, which led to
$51.7 million in civil settlements with licensed
home health-care services and certified home
health-care agencies and 25 criminal convictions.
The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit indicted two home
health-aide training schools and their owners
because they sold phony home health-aide
certificates that resulted in illegal Medicaid billing
in the millions of dollars.
A home-care agency and its owner were convicted
of stealing more than $1 million for nursing
services that were provided by nurses who were
unlicensed in the state.
— The Medicaid unit participated in settlements
with several pharmaceutical companies, including
Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Astra Zeneca
and Aventis for kickbacks, misreporting prices,
marketing drugs for uses not approved by the
federal government and other fraud.
— A doctor convicted of selling prescriptions that
were filled and sold on the street was sentenced to
three years in prison. A pharmacist received a one-
year jail sentence for billing Medicaid more than $1
million for prescription drugs that were never
dispensed.
— A debt-collection company for an upstate
hospital and its owner were indicted and charged
with ripping off Medicaid for more than $700,000
by bribing a local social-services department
employee to help approve Medicaid coverage for
certain hospital patients. The social-services
employee pleaded guilty. The fraud unit filed a $2
million civil suit against the debt-collecting
company.
— The unit filed criminal charges and a civil
wsuit seeking $5 million in damages against a
nursing home for allegedly paying kickbacks to a
hospital employee for patient referrals that
ultimately were billed to Medicaid. Patients are
entitled by law to a choice of five nursing homes.
— The unit arrested 25 current and former health-
care workers at nursing homes in Troy and Buffalo
last month after using hidden surveillance to
investigate neglect and abuse.
— A judge issued a $15.6 million judgment against
two dentists who operated a mobile business and
knowingly hired an individual with a prior felony
conviction, and the person had been barred from
participating in the Medicaid program.
You have to see the humor in everything. I did post the Steve Crowder video of what our health care system is going to look like in a very short time. If you haven’t seen it you should watch it.
What no one has mentioned is how much money did the “AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION” donate to Obama/DNC campaign to get this cherry-picked rule inserted versus the Physican Hospital Associations?
Does “picking your nose” count as a “Green Job” ?
If it does, Obama truly is a Genius.
Physician-owned hospitals are apparently going to be quashed
My father had a surgery at a doctor owned hospital. He has had a long life and many experiences with hospitals. He said that the doctor owned hospital was by FAR the best experience in regards to treatment, quality of post-op care and staff he's ever seen. Head and shoulders above all competition. He also said the staff seemed the most happy in their job people he's ever had treat him.
I’ve had my last three surgeries at one here in Pa.. It is an outpatient surgery center adjacent to the hospital but it was founded and run by two anethesiologists. You use your own doctors/surgeons but they use this facility. Very popular in our area. This is the only one I know of but I suspect that several of these outpatient surgery centers are run the same way. I also wonder if some of those ‘urgent care’ facilites that I’ve seen in Florida are founded by doctors.
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