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To: reasonisfaith

No idea what you are saying.

Just for the record, and not directed at you, you might want to read up on the subject. It’s a quick google search. Fraud and medicare.

The medical care system in this country has nothing to do with healing.

Since medicare came in and insurance, third party payer, people have generally relinquished health to these systems which pay them to abuse their bodies and then go in to what has now become largely a pharmaceutical sales system.

Poor diet, lack of exercise and drug and alcohol abuse have become acceptable and our insurance and government third party payer have funded it.

Obesity and associated diabetes, heart disease, cancer have become normal, and very expensive.

If you read about what you think you are sounding smart on, you will find that as of 1997 medical providers accounted for 72% of the fraudulent claims to medicare.

Medicare has now had to monitor doctors. And doctors don’t like it.

Medicare was a bad deal, and it still is. For many reasons. BUt beyond that, fraud makes it worse. Any reasonable person would agree with that.

doctors can get paid any way they want to as far as I’m concerned, but they cannot whine about medicare nor insurance.

Among the things people who want to opine should read, is how costs have skyrocketed since medicare came in, and how people can no longer pay out of pocket.

It is also estimated, as of 1997, that individuals pay $1400 per year each to defray the costs of fraud to medicare, which we will remember, from the same report I cited in the previous post, is attributed to doctors by 72%.

so they can just quit whining.


68 posted on 08/23/2014 11:37:35 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

“and not directed at you”

“what you think you are sounding smart on”

So it’s not a personal attack but it is.

What you did here is exactly what all the Alinskyite democrats do. Do the opposite of what they say, or say the opposite of what they do. Thinking it will defuse or somehow balance out their attacks and lies. What they fail to understand is that human language does not and cannot create reality.

What really stands out most about your comments is an emotional and unfounded vitriol against all doctors, based on unsupported statements that most of them commit medicare fraud.

But fraud in government funding occurs on all sides—by the recipients of medicare, by a very few doctors, and by the government bureaucrats managing it.

But your emotion is directed at doctors, and because it paints with such a broad brush this tells me there is another agenda behind your anti-doctor tirade.

Wherever fraud exists in a government program, the first place to look for wrongdoing is at the source—the government bureaucrats.

If they can’t manage their own programs, holding government accountable, starting with public discussions like this, comes before anything else. Logically and ethically.


73 posted on 08/24/2014 11:03:18 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they believed not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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