{"id":57804,"date":"2011-08-21T09:31:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T13:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/57804\/managed-care-privatization-impacting-budget\/"},"modified":"2011-08-21T09:31:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T13:31:49","slug":"managed-care-privatization-impacting-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/57804\/managed-care-privatization-impacting-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"on Managed Care, Privatization and impacting the Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managed Care is a Layer of Administration we can&#8217;t afford. Managed Care has reduced services and increase costs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wave3.com\/story\/13473739\/audit-shows-thousands-of-tax-payer-dollars-spent-on-travel-food-lobbying\">http:\/\/www.wave3.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our governor is going to cut contractors wasting money managing Medicaid by Adding more contractors managing Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com\/2010\/11\/15\/beshear-unveils-cost-saving-measures-for-medicaid\/\">http:\/\/bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you do google searches from 2004 ish you will find that adding Passport to Manage KY Medicaid was to save money<\/p>\n<p>If you google 2004 ish you will find that the Feds added Humana to manage Medicare and TriCare was to save money.<\/p>\n<p>It also resulted in more cost and less services.<\/p>\n<p>Can we end these Contracts when they don&#8217;t work?<\/p>\n<p>The Myth of Privatization has destroyed America.<\/p>\n<p>And there is no discussion about it. When discussing how to save money rolling back Privatization never comes up.<\/p>\n<p>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.)<\/p>\n<p>I found this article from 1986 to be interesting<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nader.org\/index.php?\/archives\/767-Sobering-Lessons-on-Privatization-Seem-to-Elude-Reagan.html\">http:\/\/www.nader.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Post script The Links aren&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n<p>Please copy and paste the URLs.<\/p>\n<p>The Nader article from 1986 is well worth the read.<\/p>\n<p>Links should be in order<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.wave3.com\/story\/13473739\/audit-shows-thousands-of-tax-payer-dollars-spent-on-travel-food-lobbying<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com\/2010\/11\/15\/beshear-unveils-cost-saving-measures-for-medicaid\/<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.nader.org\/index.php?\/archives\/767-Sobering-Lessons-on-Privatization-Seem-to-Elude-Reagan.html<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Every discussion on Budget cuts should include the Cost of Privatization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managed Care is a Layer of Administration we can&#8217;t afford. Managed Care has reduced services and increase costs. http:\/\/www.wave3.com 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}