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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Howard Clark who wrote (8685)9/15/1999 8:59:00 PM
From: flatsville  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
Howard--

You wrote:

>>>To my knowlege, the term "high impact" has been applied to programs not systems.<<<

Thanks for pointing that out.

From the news reports I gather we are here?

7 out of 43 "high impact" Federal
programs (Federal, state, county combined readiness)--Horn

95% complete (term?) systems--House of Representatives

97% complete "most important" systems--OMB

97% complete "most critical" systems--White House

It still leaves me wondering if there's anything to the changing terminology describing systems.

You also wrote:

>>>If a handful of state Medicaid agencies are non-compliant, for example, the whole program could have a not-ready status.<<<

I think you're right for purposes of Horn's report. He gave HCFA a grade "F" because 33 states and D.C. were at risk of failure.

As a side note I just learned that depending on the demographics of your area the "Medis" (Medicare, Medicaid) comprise between 40-60% of operational revenues made to healthcare providers.

According to one poster I've been reading:

"It wil be the lack of funds/payments...Much of the non/not-for-profit orgs rely upon insurance payments and high return programs such as cardiac to float the deficit which is created by these low payment public insurances. Without the Medi checks and with a significant problem with the flow of money from profit oriented insurance corps I doubt that many facilities will remain open except on an emergency only/triag basis.

The Federal systems feed State systems with blocks of liquidity. All levels must work for the whole to work. The converse of this is that such a design increases the likelihood of over all failure."
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