WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? I WOULD.........
This is worth reading & forwarding
---
Keep in mind that this was in Sept. & Oct., 2010, but what has happened, if anything, since then?
Be sure to click on the taping for Mr. Palmisano's statement!
UNBELIEVABLE!
IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free...
The offer is true. Mort Zuckermann, US News and World Report, a Democrat, was interviewed on Fox and confirmed it. IBM has confirmed it. You won't believe it. IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free...
What if I told you that the Chairman and CEO of IBM, Samuel J. Palmisano, approached President Obama and members of his administration before the healthcare bill debates with a plan that would reduce healthcare expenditures by $900 billion? Given the Obama Administration's adamancy that the United States of America simply had to make healthcare (read: health insurance) affordable for even the most dedicated welfare recipient, one would think he would have leaned forward in his chair, cupped his ear and said, "Tell me more!"
And what if I told you that the cost to the federal government for this program was nothing, zip, nada, zilch?
And, what if I told you that, in the end and after two meetings, President Obama and his team, instead of embracing a program that was proven to save money and one that was projected to save almost one trillion dollars - a private sector program costing the taxpayers nothing, zip, nada, zilch - said, "Thanks but no thanks" and then embarked on passing one of the most despised pieces of legislation in US history?
Well, it's all true.
Samuel J. Palmisano, the Chairman of the Board and CEO for IBM, said in a recent Wall Street Journal interview that he offered to provide the Obama Administration with a program that would curb healthcare claims fraud and abuse by almost one trillion dollars but the Obama White House turned the offer down.
Mr. Palmisano is quoted as saying during a taping http://video.foxnews.com/v/
of The Wall Street Journal's Viewpoints program on September 14, 2010:
"We could have improved the quality and reduced the cost of the healthcare system by $900 billion...I said we would do it for free to prove that it works. They turned us down."
A second meeting between Mr. Palmisano and the Obama Administration took place two weeks later, with no change in the Obama Administration's stance. A call placed to IBM on October 8, 2010, by FOX News confirmed, via a spokesperson, that Mr. Palmisano stands by his statement.
Speaking with FOX News' Stuart Varney, Mort Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief of US News & World Report, said,
"It's a little bit puzzling because I think there is a huge amount of both fraud and inefficiency that American business is a lot more comfortable with and more effective in trying to reduce. And this is certainly true because the IBM people have studied this very carefully. And when Palmisano went to the White House and made that proposal, it was based upon a lot of work and it was not accepted. And it's really puzzling...These are very, very responsible people and don't have a political ax to grind.
In Mr. Obama's shunning of a private sector program that would have saved our country almost $1 trillion in healthcare expenditures, presented to him as he declared a "crisis in healthcare," he proves two things beyond any doubt: that he is anti-Capitalist and anti-private sector in nature and that he can no longer be trusted to tell the truth in both his political declarations or espoused goals.
Posts
6 comments:
The Technology CEO Council issued a report in October 2010 estimating that the government could recoup $200 billion in fraudulent payments in all federal programs over 10 years by applying "advanced analytics technology."
The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, which became law a few weeks before the council’s report, requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to use advanced analytic technology in an attempt to reduce fraud. Looks like Obama had already implemented the IBM analytic technology.
http://www.factcheck.org/tag/terrorism/feed/
"...a program that would curb healthcare claims fraud and abuse by almost one trillion dollars..."
Per Anon, above, I guess recovering almost $200 billion over 10 years from all fed. programs is "roughly equivalent" to "one trillion dollars."
If it's Fox, it's lying b.s. propoganda. Sent out by a rightwing think-tank to gin up outrage over a big fat nothing.
Pres Obama chose Jeffrey Immelt, former CEO of GE, to be his putative "jobs czar" or some other such nonsense.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/21/obama-picks-jeffrey-immel-ge-jobs-overseas_n_812502.html'
Geez, that just *proves* how "anti-Capitalist and anti-private sector..." Obama is, esp after Obama bent over backwards to keep the Bush tax cuts for the mega-wealthy in place.
Ho hum.
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=70746
Too nuanced and wordy for the average nutbagger brain to comprehend and disseminate. Ask Frank Luntz, he'll tell you the same. Keep it simple, stupid.
You know, Florida's Republican governor, Rick Scott, gained much of his wealth from systematic Medicare fraud....
I fond this blog while searching for info on this IBM thing that my Dad forwarded to me. I had the very same idea about starting blog like this for all the crap my dad sends me too. Good work!
Post a Comment