[StBernard] IBM's proposal to reduce medicare fraud

[Westley Annis]

	That dumbass had a gift horse looking at him in the face and he
kicked it to the curb .....
	 
	 

	
	Subject:  THTP-IBM's Proposal to Reduce Medicare Fraud


	 
	Note that Mort Zuckerman is a Democrat.

		
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UNBELIEVABLE !  
    
IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free...  The offer is true.
Zukermann, US News and World Report, owner, 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/4366002/did-white-house-snub-fraud-fighter/
 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.