Posted on 07/14/2011 5:20:09 AM PDT by Portcall24
I searched to see if this had been and found nothing. I received as email and checked both Snopes and Truth or Fiction with nothing noted:
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 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.
Any link to a media source that has posted this information?
Nothing beyond what’s shown in the email. Sorry.
"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."
Mr. Palmisano is unclear on the purpose of Democrat programs. Waste, fraud, and abuse are all deliberate objectives.
Even though I am no fan of IBM especially outsourcing, the CEO is definitely on the mark with this !
About 20 years ago, a company in California developed a program that would help users detect welfare fraud. It would look at the database of recipients and find multiple checks going to the same address, non-existent addresses for checks, multiple recipients with the same SSN, recipients with multiple SSNs and all sorts of other red flags. It would report these red flags and the user could then start looking more closely at these particular cases. The program could be used either as a one time treatment or as an ongoing maintenance thing (scan once per month). It was successfully demonstrated in several large counties 20 states. It found quite a number of red flag cases. The technicians were interested but the politicians were not happy. The use of the system would reduce the number of benefit recipients and the program quietly died at the hands of the politicians. (Guess which party?)
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Of course they’d turn it down.
Most of that fraud goes to their voters and supporters, who know that they will not be found out.
They would be killing the golden goose.................
Palmisano actually thought the Obama administration wanted to FIX healthcare??? Haahahahaahahahah! That’s a knee-slapper if I ever heard one!
If they control your access to water, food, energy, and medical care,
they can do anything to you that they want.
OMG did mankind just dodge a bullet.
of course, it can only be because Larry Ellison and jefferey immelt throw kinkier orgies...
What could be kinkier than one man screwing 311,762,172 people at once?
lol.
IBM is out with the Obama administration.
They were caught making small political donations to a few republicans.
I am convinced all we would have to do is watch TV and make a note of the commercials that claim a service at no cost and investigate those companies and find $$billions in fraud. How many catheter's could you possibly need or even use per month? I had a neighbor a few years ago with a disabled son about 30 years old. He got very sick and was hospitalized, treated and then sent home. During that period, he qualified for men's diapers from either Medicare or Medicaid, I'm not sure which. He no longer needs the diapers but still gets them even today. The mom sells them in a Penny Saver type paper for $5 a pack. They are about $11 at the store. She also gives them away to friends. My mother in law is dead now, but at the time she needed a wheel chair, she tried to get one from medicare but found she had already gotten the one she qualified for. She told them she had not and wanted to know the address of the delivery of the chair. They insisted that she should know because she had the chair. She said somebody else had used identity fraud and it would be easy to catch them if they just followed up. She ended up paying for her own chair from her own pocket because they wouldn't check anything.
These are just a couple of stories I have been aware of myself and would be easy to fix if we just had some fraud investigative body involved with Medicare. I don't think anything happens now until you get to the million dollar mark. I'm sure hiring an outside group to monitor billing Medicare would produce results especially if there were a reward if you turned in a scofflaw. Just think of the smoking telephones if you offered a 50% reward of what they collect. People would rat on their own family members for that.
Your brother must have been working with “Whiz” Miller.
Why on earth would Obama want to give up $900B in “reparations” to his and Holder’s people?
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