Squandering Medicare Money - Solutions in Plain View
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/opinion/26redberg.html
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Rita F. Redberg, a cardiologist, is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and the editor of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Her most interesting article with facts and figures demonstrates how changing administrative mandates within the Medicare system can save between 100 to 150 Billion dollars a year. But with the country talking death panels and such other hyperbolic nonsense, these practical solutions would be considered heinous by patient groups who think that doctor's know best and the doctors who profit from unnecessary procedures.
Her most interesting article with facts and figures demonstrates how changing administrative mandates within the Medicare system can save between 100 to 150 Billion dollars a year. But with the country talking death panels and such other hyperbolic nonsense, these practical solutions would be considered heinous by patient groups who think that doctor's know best and the doctors who profit from unnecessary procedures.
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jubal
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We really need to take a serioius look at how these dollars are being spent.
- 1 year ago
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congoboy
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jubal:
yes we do. as with all federal programs. too much corruption and not enough accountability. if we hired say, 1000 temporary auditors to clean up the system. closing down shady clinics, taking away the licenses of crooked doctors and firing corrupt politicians then maybe there'd be enough left over to actually do some good. but with all the corrupt politicians out there on both sides of the aisle taking bribes a lot of folks dont want it fixed
- 12 months ago
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congoboy
