Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Medicare/Medicaid: Where's The Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Elimination?

It's been more than a month since the health care reform bill was passed and signed into law. Prior to its passage, Obama claimed that billions of dollars could be saved by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid.

So, maybe I missed it. Where's the directive or commission that is supposed to work on these Medicare/Medicaid savings? Instead, all I keep hearing about is that Obama and the Democrats in Congress are focused in on financial and immigration reform and on Cap and Trade. As far as ObamaCare is concerned, it seems like all the post-passage reviews are finding more and more increased costs associated with it. All of which were never taken into consideration before it's hurried passage. So, in typical "W" D.C. fashion, it appears, once again, the promises of cost and waste reduction are never going to happen. Like a lot of people projected before this bill was passed, we are probably looking at a trillion dollar expense in ten years; as opposed to the supposed few billion dollars that the Democrats claimed in savings.

2 comments:

Mr. D said...

Although we can't control the waste in Washington, those on Medicare can reduce their own cost by going to www.usmedicare.com

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