Posted on 11/09/2013 4:17:35 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
...Obama is apologizing to Americans who are losing their current health insurance...including about 250,000 Coloradons...
Cathy Wagner says..."I was really shocked...all my hopes were sort of dashed...."
...She was shocked further to learn that for the same coverage she would pay 35 percent more and have a higher deductible....
(Excerpt) Read more at denver.cbslocal.com ...
Cathy, sorry but you should have done more research on zerocare. BTW elections have consequences.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer person.
Cathy,
I guess it sucks to be you!
Are we supposed to fell sad, or concerned, or what? She got what she wanted, now she complains?
You should die and reduce the surplus population!
The comments over there are brutal. And she deserves them.
This is just too funny. She gets to experience "Hope and Change" up front and personal. I hope ObamaCare bankrupts her.
“I really just wanted him to know … I was so hopeful that this plan was going to move us forward, but in fact I think it’s moving us backward,” Wagner said.
Notice how she says it is moving “us” backward now that it has affected “her”.
Schadenfreude.
I never could figure out why CHANGE is always supposed to be for the good.
My bad.
A low information voter figured it out. She’ll never figure out though that “progressive” doesn’t mean going forward, it means going backward. She’ll keep voting for the people who want her to die.
Too bad, so sad. Sorry, lady, but my sympathy is pretty limited these days. You supported it then, in spite of all the warnings, and you can own it now. Welcome to the real world, lady.
Wagner, you have accurately described communism. Now shut up and suffer in silence so that you don't up the commissars.
I read some of the comments-they let her have it!
Time to remind Sen Brown that M/care is hardly the shining healthcare example he claims it to be---M/Care is a fraud-ridden program bilking taxpayers of billions of dollars. Some Medicare shysters set up PO boxes, file phony claims, and the millions roll in. We shudder at the fraud that will permeate sap-happy Obama's Marxist h/care scam. ID theft, stolen SS nos, billions in phony claims, etc, etc, etc.
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MEMO TO SEN SHERROD BROWN (D-OHIO):
Medicare paid millions to illegal immigrants, dead patients, probe finds
By Stephen Dinan / The Washington Times
Medicare paid $23 million for dead patients in 2011 and $29 million for drug benefits for illegal immigrants from 2009 to 2011, according to a report Thursday from the Health and Human Services inspector general.
The investigators said Medicare has safeguards to try to stop payments to dead patients, but it still ended up sending out the $23 million anyway.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) — the same agency that is struggling to fix the broken Obamacare website — acknowledged the problems and said it will try to take steps to fix them.
“We agree that in cases where the information indicates an individual is not lawfully present in the United States, that individual should not be permitted to enroll or to remain enrolled in a Part D plan during the period where he or she is not eligible to receive federal benefits,” Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of CMS, said in response to the report about illegal immigrants getting benefits.
The payouts aren’t large — they amount to just a fraction of a percent of what Medicare pays each year in benefits. Still, the investigators said the agency should take steps to crack down.
In one of its reports the inspector general said 4,139 illegal immigrants were able to make 279,056 drug benefit claims. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-5414390.html
The investigators said that while CMS has policies to prevent illegal immigrants from getting most Medicare benefits, it didn’t have such a policy for the prescription drug program, which was added under President George W. Bush and expanded by President Obama’s health law.
As for dead patients collecting benefits, the investigators said the problems were often related to missing or incorrect dates of death.
Dead doctors also were paid $25 million over a three-year period.
Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican (a doctor), said the report was worrying because CMS had been warned of the problems five years earlier.“Every individual wrongfully awarded benefits, be it the deceased or undocumented, diverts scarce resources away from those who need it most,” he said
SOURCE http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/31/medicare-paid-millions-dead-patients-illegals/#ixzz2jK6Gu1dx
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CBSNEWS.COM--- Medicare Fraud: A $60 Billion Crime
Of all the problems facing the United States right now, none are more important than health care. President Obama says rising costs are driving huge federal budget deficits that imperil our future, and that there is enough waste and fraud in the system to pay for health care reform if it was eliminated.
At the center of both issues is Medicare, the government insurance program that provides health care to 46 million elderly and disabled Americans. But it also provides a rich and steady income stream for criminals who are constantly finding new ways to steal a sizable chunk of the half trillion dollars that are paid out each year in Medicare benefits.
In fact, Medicare fraud - estimated now to total about $60 billion a year - has become one of, if not the most profitable, crimes in America.
This story may raise your blood pressure, along with some troubling questions about our government's ability to manage a medical bureaucracy.
If you want to find Medicare fraud, the first place you should look is South Florida, where 60 Minutes and correspondent Steve Kroft were told it has pushed aside cocaine as the major criminal enterprise.
It's a quiet crime - there are no sirens or gunfire. The only victims are the American taxpayers, and they don't even know they are being ripped off.
FBI Special Agent Brian Waterman, who 60 Minutes rode with for several days, told us the only visible evidence of the crimes are the thousands of tiny clinics and pharmacies that dot the low-rent strip malls.
You don't even know they're there because there's never anyone inside. No doctors, no nurses and no patients. "This office number should be manned and answered 24 hours a day," Waterman explained, standing outside one of those small, unstaffed businesses. The tiny medical supply company billed Medicare almost $2 million in July and a half million dollars while 60 Minutes was there in August, but we never found anybody inside, and our phone calls were never returned.
Sometimes, they don't even have offices: we went looking for a pharmacy at 7511 NW. 73rd Street that billed Medicare $300,000 in charges. It turned out to be in the middle of a public warehouse storage area. "They've already told us that there's no offices here," Waterman told Kroft. "There are no businesses here. In fact they are not even allowed to have a business here."
Waterman is the senior agent in the Miami office in charge of Medicare fraud. And Kirk Ogrosky, a top Justice Department prosecutor, oversees half a dozen Medicare fraud strike forces that have been set up across the country.
The office Kroft visited operates out of a warehouse at a secret location in South Florida and includes investigators from the FBI, Health and Human Services, and the IRS.
"There's a healthcare fraud industry where people do nothing but recruit patients, get patient lists, find doctors, look on the Internet, find different scams. There are entire groups and entire organizations of people that are dedicated to nothing but committing fraud, finding a better way to steal from Medicare," Waterman explained.
"Is the Medicare fraud business bigger than the drug business in Miami now?" Kroft asked."I think it's way bigger," Ogrosky said. Asked what changed, Ogrosky told Kroft, "The criminals changed." "Sophistication," Waterman added.
"They've figured out that rather than stealing $100,000 or $200,000, they can steal $100 million. We have seen cases in the last six, eight months that involve a couple of guys that if they weren't stealing from Medicare might be stealing your car," Ogrosky explained.
"You know, we were the king of the drugs in the '80s. We're king of healthcare fraud in the '90s and the 2000's," Waterman added, speaking about South Florida.---SNIP---more at CBSNEWS.COM/60 minutes web site
So what this woman is essentially saying is that enrolling everybody was supposed to,bring the costs down, but the question is, “Whom would it be cheaper for?”
It certainly wouldn’t be cheaper for young men who typically do without healthcare because they have different priorities and they typically recover from their acts of stupidity, so they don’t really need it.
That phase she used, “I am not political” is the bane of our nation.
These people that claim to be above the dirty messy business of politics and, instead, vote for “the man” are the tools of the most vile office seekers.
With no understanding of our nation’s structure and intended government, or the outright rejection of that structure, they offer their vote to whom ever the television offers up. Thinking their own good feelings will insure an outcome of similar spirit, they are easy prey for the marxists.
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