MSI, The $400 billion would probably be enough if there was not rampant fraud.
I beg to differ on the docs. There are many of them that pad their bills, and send bills to Medicare without ever providing the service they are billing for. I was referred to a doctor to check my throat just the other day, and not only did he not look at my throat at all, he just poked around my body for about 5 minutes, and billed Medicare $318.00. I have had several ambulance companies transport my Mother to a hospital in vans for transportation only, and have billed Medicare for full emergency service, including oxygen, IVs, and the works without ever supplying these services. I could go on, and on, but the list would get tedious. The Medicare system itself is full of civil servants, that cannot be fired, and who don't give a damn if medical providers cheat, or not.
It cannot be fixed by Congress or any one administration because it will take too long to correct the inefficiency of the government workers. Some tough administrator should be allowed to go in there and start firing malcontents, and lazy, shiftless, don't give a damn, people, and set down job descriptions that make it mandatory for workers to comply or be fired on the spot. The whole system is inside pork buried deep in the system. |
