Health Care System Wastes Up to $850 Billion Annually, Report Says

Just think how much fraud there is going to be if we are all forced on a national health care plan and we will be the fools you get stuck paying for the fraud

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When you are taking about waste,the Health Care System will have to go some to catch up with the Pentagon.When was the last time you paid $600.00 for a hammer..?

And the Obama plan will solve that?

wanna fix that? legalize marijuana and let us grow our own medicine, and fuel, and paper, and clothes, and food..... can anyone see any real downside to this? people are going to get high either way and the cannabis plant is much more than just a way to get high

It's again the old story with this administration, no oversight!!! Just hire new czars that do nothing!!!

THE WASTE THAT OBAMA CARE WILL PRODUCE WILL BE 10 TIMES THE CURRENT WASTE-OBAMA THE 2 FACED LYING THIEF DOES NOT HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT IS GOING ON- HE IS RUNNING AROUND IN OUR 747 WAVING TO CAMERAS-THATS ALL HE IS GOOD FOR

SCHUMER AND REID MUST HAVE FOUND A WAY TO STEAL MONEY FROM THE HEALTH PLAN THEY ARE PUSHING ON THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER-----------------------

The annual waste in health care is vastly underestimated in this article.

The administrative cost running 10+ different government/tax supported health insurance agencies providing Medicare, Medicaid, Workman's Comp, Husky, federal and state veteran's health, prison health systems, Native American health, Husky, SAGA, Community Health Network and all the city,state,federal government employees and elected officials could be organized under one agency with community-based flexibility in its design depending on various regional demographics . The Workman's Comp Insurance system is highly vulnerable to fraud and "gaming" of the system by all parties involved and needs to be eliminated entirely. The number of cases I have seen in 20 years of practice that represent the original Workman's Comp "Mission" are few. Unregistered-uninsured workers/"illegal aliens" often get a free ride through the system of Catholic charities and ERs that pass the losses on through other channels. "We" not "they" eat their unpaid bills.

The so called "private" insurance industry covers a limited, priviledged, and "cherry picked" segment of the society that is healthy, relatively educated, employed, under 65, not mentally handicapped, without pre-existing conditions, and the entitled families of these policyholders. Most "private" policies are supported directly or indirectly by the government as tax credits to businesses that provide them. The vast army of billing code specialists,administrators, and reviewers in all the offices, hospitals, and the insurance companies themselves all are contributors to the wasted overhead of the health industry in America...

A big, heated warehouse with no products or services that employs several million has to be paid for some way. In America we pay for it by undermining our education programs and business devlopment of new products..the ultimate payers for that unnecessary overhead waste.

I have practiced general medicine for 20 years in New England. I favor universal coverage, rationing of taxpayer supported services, evidence-based medical practice,and a single payer system (along with 20,000 other physicians)..for the same reasons we have a single Major League baseball league, universal access to public education, a central federal government supported military, and local publically supported schools and fire and police and departments. We are a better nation because of that public design.

I heartily agree that doctor's should stop supporting the use of antibiotics for most upper repiratory illnesses...two thirds of our outpatient visits... Except for influenza, we have no specific treatments for these mostly viral illnesses. But,we continue to prescribe antibacterial drugs anyway.. because we CAN...it brings happiness and satisfaction to our consuming patients...the drug reps and Big Pharma like us..

But..like elective cosmetic plastic surgery...the tax payers should NOT be paying the bill...If people want special elective procedures..ineffective cures for the common cold...let them pay for it out of their own pockets ...it's not that difficult...we just need an informed public, political will, and rational reform-minded officials. Thank you.

buster:

And by what did you determine these figures. OH, I know, it is what the present RULER of our country must have told you.. He knows no more than you or anyone else how many illegals have come into our country at ANY TIME in history. We just know there are too many that are doing horrible things to the American citizens and the government is indeed responsible. But, it cannot be verified that ANY one president let in more than any other. Just look at the news today of illegals coming in, under fences, over fences and underground. Now, Could you please stop this? IF so, please notify your savior, in the White House how to do it because he doesn't know how to do anything except shout out WORDS and look right into the camera that is taping him or that he is on Television. His main thing, in his mind, is to keep the people believing in his LIES!!!!!

Coop4ct is absolutely correct. There is massive waste in our dysfunctional system and a Single Payer system, supplemented perhaps with a shift away from wasteful fee-for-service reimbursement of providers, would give us true reform and cost control as well as better data on outcomes, effectiveness, instant identification of overutilizers, etc. The structure is already there with Medicare, so it would not require the 3 years to gear up and hire a czar and then add additional bloated bureaucracy to our already massively bloated bureaucracy (31% overhead) which is the worst in the world. Just make Medicare more comprehensive, enroll all at the day of birth, change its funding so it does not depend on today's workers and 2.9%payroll tax..unchanged since 1985...for funding an expanding number of enrollees. Single payer is what the rest of the world has discovered is most efficient with the lowest overhead (Medicare has 3.5%)and with better outcomes at half the cost. Medicare satisfaction is 92% among enrollees. We all need some of that.

WHY IS OUR CONGRESS NOT COGNIZANT OF THIS, AND WRITING LEGISLATION TO TACKLE THE PROBLEM, VICE WRITING PERSONAL POWER POLICY??

Do those who supposedly support this rape of the American health care system understand truly what they are asking for? Do the realize that Obama and comapny will use all of the unemployable people to staff this goofy idea, they will build a building the size of the pentagon to house them and each state will have a system simailar to their DMV to manage it. You guys talk about cost how about speaking more in terms that the average person can identify with?

Its time to employ the crooks to help us clean this mess up. Funny how all these nasty problems end up on Obamas desk.

This quote is from an AOL article are deficits bad? "Consider first how the government is helping those who have been most hurt by the economic downturn. Relative to a year earlier, the federal government is spending an additional $70.5 billion on the unemployment trust fund, $18 billion more on food stamps and child nutrition programs, and $93 billion more on Medicare and Medicaid. This spending is essential to help the neediest sector of the population."


The most interesting part is $93 billion for medicare and medicaid THINK ABOUT IT... THIS IS GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE PAID FOR WITH OUR TAXES!! X 10 YRS. 930 BILLION CLOSE TO THE CURRENT OBAMA PROPOSAL!!!

OUR GOVERNMENT ALREADY COVERS THE UNINSURED. IF THEY PASS THIS NEW HEALTHCARE LEGISLATION THEY'LL NOT GIVE BACK THIS 93 BILLION, I PROMISE YOU. THE 93 BILLION MOVES TO THE GENERAL TAX FUND AND WILL BE SQUANDERED ON PET PROJECTS AND OTHER STUPID WASTE.===SINGLE PAYER IS THEIR MISSION===
===CRADLE TO GRAVE HEALTHCARE TAX IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL===

IT WILL START OFF REAL CHEAP AND AFFORDABLE AROUND $2000.00 A YR. SO MOST UNINSURED PEOPLE WILL SMILE AND THINK IT'S A GOOD THING I HAVE HEALTHCARE, EVEN THOUGH THEY COULD BE COVERED UNDER MEDICARE OR MEDICAID PROGRAMS. AND DON'T TELL ME THE GOVERNMENT COULDN'T EXPAND THESE CURRENT PROGRAMS TO ANYONE WITHOUT INSURANCE. THEY CAME UP WITH 93 BILLION AS THE ARTICLE STATES, AND OVER THE YEARS THESE PREMIUMS GROW AS THE GOVERNMENT SEES FIT.
WE WILL HAVE NO CONTROL OVER IT, EVERY PERSON OVER 18 OR 21 WILL REQUIRED TO HAVE PROOF OF INSURANCE OR BE FINED AND MAYBE PUT IN JAIL. IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD YOUR PREMIUM THEY'LL SAY GO ON WELFARE (GOVERNMENT OPTION MEANS THEY'LL HELP PAY YOUR PREMIUM WITH TAX $$$$)
THE FACT REMAINS YOU AND I WILL LOSE MORE FREEDOMS TO THE GOVERNMENT. I'M ALL FOR HEALTHCARE CHANGE WE CAN VOTE NEW RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANIES. BUT TO THINK GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE IS THE WAY TO GO... YOU ARE VERY MISS INFORMED.

WE THE PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF BEING SCAMMED OUT OF OUR HARD EARNED MONEY!!! KNOCK IT OFF!!!