on Managed Care, Privatization and impacting the Budget
Managed Care is a Layer of Administration we can’t afford. Managed Care has reduced services and increase costs.
Our governor is going to cut contractors wasting money managing Medicaid by Adding more contractors managing Medicaid.
http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com
If you do google searches from 2004 ish you will find that adding Passport to Manage KY Medicaid was to save money
If you google 2004 ish you will find that the Feds added Humana to manage Medicare and TriCare was to save money.
It also resulted in more cost and less services.
Can we end these Contracts when they don’t work?
The Myth of Privatization has destroyed America.
And there is no discussion about it. When discussing how to save money rolling back Privatization never comes up.
I could post very Literally THOUSANDS of articles of Contractor abuse of Contracts at every level of Government. (hell, there is thousands of articles on corruption and malfeaseance in Military and Defense contractors, alone.)
I found this article from 1986 to be interesting
Post script The Links aren’t working.
Please copy and paste the URLs.
The Nader article from 1986 is well worth the read.
Links should be in order
http://www.wave3.com/story/13473739/audit-shows-thousands-of-tax-payer-dollars-spent-on-travel-food-lobbying
http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/2010/11/15/beshear-unveils-cost-saving-measures-for-medicaid/
http://www.nader.org/index.php?/archives/767-Sobering-Lessons-on-Privatization-Seem-to-Elude-Reagan.html
Thank you.
Every discussion on Budget cuts should include the Cost of Privatization.
Anything that is “privatized”, especialy if it has to do with the poor and medical stuff, is automatically a scam designed to milk every dollar possible out of the system for private gain.
The lowest price for anything is AT COST. Privatized services cannot run AT COST, because they have to add their Profit to the price.
The Veterans Administration provides the best Health Care in America, because they operate AT Cost, and can also negotiate the price of drugs by the volume of their purchase. Of course, that is American Socialism.
Hello Roscoe……………………….what Temy said! 🙄
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. ~Ralph Nader~
Yes, privatization is a scam… It is being done for ideological reasons. The government (they say) is never as efficient as private enterprise. Humana and others are making a bundle and somehow we forget that the Canadian system is tax funded, non profit, AND PRIVATLY RUN… This option is never discussed and won’t be as long as so many are earning so much.
The problem is this.
This is the Conversation http://www.sherrodbrown.com/petition/super-committee/?subsource=CKSCFNAT the only discussion about the budget is Social Security, Medicare and Taxes.
Let US change the Conversation.
Social Security and Medicare is a separate system then Income Tax and what is considered Revenue. We all pay into the Medicare and Social Security system. They should not be in the Budget Conversation.
It has never been about the people. When ever a social program is adopted to help the people, corporations find ways to make money with it.
Considering all private corporations are set up upon the principle that profits should increase considerably on an annual if not quarterly basis, it’s a no brainer to see that it would involve providing subpar healthcare, higher overall costs, or both. There is no other logical outcome. Unless they expect medicine and procedures to suddenly cost less incrementally over time, which will never happen.
But then when has logic ever been a driving force behind the argument to privatize? 😉