I’d like to emphasize a point made by Rochester’s Fran Bradley in his Medicare article.
He mentioned efforts to address Medicare fraud and abuse. The monster ObamaCare legislation includes such measures. The shenanigan, the disgusting political reality of it, is this…
Fraud and abuse in an existing system should be dealt with as quickly as it can possibly be identified and corrected. Right?
Not in ObamaCare’s Washington. Oh no. You see, reducing fraud and abuse reduces healthcare costs. Those reductions are needed in the ObamaCare legislation to help the CBO run the numbers in a way that show ObamaCare reducing the deficit. Take the fixes to fraud and abuse out of ObamaCare and it no longer reduces the deficit.
On the other hand, proposed Medicare changes actually related to ObamaCare were taken out and passed as separate legislation. Why? Because they added over $200 billion of cost to ObamaCare. Taking that expense out was an other way of fixing the CBO math.
So, fraud and abuse that should be fixed as quickly as possible and that have nothing to do with ObamaCare are in ObamaCare (waiting for a year to be passed) while costly bits related to ObamaCare are taken out and fast-tracked.
What a bunch of crap from a bunch of crappy people.