tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post4386555591372484277..comments2024-03-28T05:47:44.752-05:00Comments on RIFLES AT DAWN: Through the Looking Glass (Where Illogic is the Norm)Tim Morrisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00457723301178870851noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-30957515391332888192009-07-23T12:49:43.524-05:002009-07-23T12:49:43.524-05:00It's way too easy to game the current health-c...It's way too easy to game the current health-care delivery system. Dr. Fraudster lightens your poke for an extra $170 and his chances of getting caught, let alone punished for stealing such a relatively petty amount are nil. If his extra bill is questioned, well ... it's just one of those pesky billing errors. The rules are Sooo complicated, you know.<br /><br />Who knows how much the cheaters and thieves add to the cost of commercially available health insurance? It must be substantial, and it's so difficult to prosecute them because the burden of proof is high and the amounts of each grab are not huge and the checks are coming from all over the place.<br /><br />Pull that same sort of fleece job on a single-payer federal system a few times and the fleecer could end up cleaning toilets with Bernie Madoff.<br /><br />Medicos do try to loot Medicare; It's a constant and expensive problem. But there are no really new scams under the sun, so in the long run it rarely turns out well for them.hieronymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-9658937677098172912009-07-23T08:16:56.578-05:002009-07-23T08:16:56.578-05:00Well, hold on old horse! Look, out there, on the h...Well, hold on old horse! Look, out there, on the horizon, in the year 2013 it's the Obama Plan! It's coming to save some of us, course your billing cadre will be the same. Slightly less overhead from 20% to maybe 11% not the 3% medicare cost we were promised. But bigger co-pay and deductable should cover that loss.<br />Remember, Pres.Johnson signed the Medicare law in July 30, 1965 eleven months later it was up an operating in eleven months coverring 45 million seniors with a non-profit government program. Why the delay untill after the election?antpoppanoreply@blogger.com