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I see what you did there....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBS0OWGUidc
WB7 is my new Hero...mocking the power structure in fine style.
Show me the money is right up there with......let me be clear.
Which is usually followed with I...I...I...I. Which is usually followed with some crap that makes absolutely no sense.
OT: WB7, whose head/face would work best on this gem?
Of course it would have to read: "I make rainbows, bitchez!"
You never know until that decisive moment ;-)
I'm gonna get slammed for this but I don't care. I can only speak for my state. In my state the Dept of Health and Welfare has contracted out to United Health to go through all the providers of mental health that use medicaid and get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse. Apparently there are a lot of providers that keep these...um...retar....er....mentally ill people coming back and back for more "treatment" and drugs when they don't need it, costing taxpayers millions of dollars. United is, as far as I can tell, doing a bang up job, in infancy, of cracking down on the abusive providers, hence saving taxpayer money.
Just sayin'. I don't know how it is in other states.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkagx8Zl_uc#t=11
Cost control measures are going into place for frauds and others.
As usual, bunnyswanson, the deeper into listening to the information presented in that link you provided, the worse the implications become. The last minute or so, summarizing the trends, were very disturbing, since I think those were quite correct.
Back in 2009, provoked by the swine flu scare then, which appeared to start in Mexico, I put together a list of links to, and comments upon, those kinds of issues:
http://www.marijuanaparty.ca/article.php3?id_article=411
Their reputation, and the source of public ire, is rewarding it's employees for denying medical claims valid and/or otherwise.
I can say from experience that they are a Class A pain in the ass when it comes to dragging their feet and hondling you and your medical provider on reimbursements.
So what you are reporting is not surprising. Horses for courses.
What? Well, I never..! A health insurance company dragging their ass?! I don't believe you. EVERY insurance company I've ever dealt with has never taken issue with paying out money.
Look, the ACA sucks. Insurance companies suck. Would you rather have .gov trying clean up the mess (good luck) or have them contract out to a private company to clean up the mess (good luck there too)? I figured most here would be in favor of a private company, but I guess we are so fed up with it we will bitch about anything they do to try to fix it, private or public.
i don't see any fixing here.
mandatory health insurance isn't the right answer for any healthcare issue.
I don't think you are appreciating the crony circularity of what has been put in place.
The industry writes and successfully lobbies for a hopeless clusterfuck which it is then called upon to fix. The lawyer with the case that is never supposed to be settled comes to mind.
It is of course possible for government to augment private healthcare. It isn't even such a big fucking deal. It isn't where I am. This is certainly not the only place where it works fine either. But of course, it isn't a boundless money sucking machine for corporations either.
The reasons it won't work in the US are virtually the same special interest soaked reasons so much else is so fucked up right now. The rest of the world is not perfect of course. But somehow it seems to have managed to check all manner of corporate parasitism much more effectively than we seem capable of.
A separate issue is why all the best and brightest minds in IT are all allocated to finding new ways for the private sector to fit more advertisements on a tiny screen or to cull our data for nefarious government purposes. Surely there must be a better way to set our national priorities.
BTW, the reasons American carriers behave the way they do is because we have a system that offers high stakes incentives for fraud on both ends as well as callous corporate indifference. Woe onto those innocents caught in the middle.
Addendum:
I am going to continue with this lest I be accused of being purely negative.
I have one simple observation to make that seems woefully lost in our system.
Everywhere that I have been exposed to friendly, efficient and seemless government service there are a few principles I have noticed at work:
1. Zero tolerance for corruption and laziness.
2. The customer always comes first.
3. Respect for careers in government. Respect that is earned not entitled.
When these principles are applied properly, no one complains constantly about government employee salaries and government employees are able to realize a modicum of career respectibility and esprit de corps. This means bright people are attracted to government. Most importantly, people are by and large happy with the service they receive from their government.
End result, the public servant (that's what they are still called) wearing the Gov't ID winds up being very concerned about customer feedback associated with that badge.
the reasons American carriers behave the way they do is because we have a system that offers high stakes incentives for fraud on both ends as well as callous corporate indifference. Woe onto those innocents caught in the middle...
In CA worker’s comp cases, it used to be when an insurer refused to authorize appropriate prescriptive treatment / drugs they would subject themselves to a 25% penalty, referring to the total cost of all treatment at the conclusion of the event / process / procedure. For instance a 10K total payout for treating a broken bone would tack on another 2500. after a return to previous health / condition. Now, it’s 25% of the particular treatment purposefully unauthorized, i.e. a 20dollar bottle of meds now cost them 5 bucks to not authorize. It certainly removes the incentive to provide appropriate care, but hey, the taxpayer / ratepayers should benefit from the frugality, right? Why do I think the savings are all absorbed by the executive layer then?
The whole medical reimbursement eco-system has become basically a dishonest endeavor. It's like dealing in used cars. No wonder so many honest medical professionals are fed up.
Banzai, you're awakening the sheeple who are drinking the flouride, listening to the speaches, watching the flag waving and think government agencies are "necessary" and "good" and the "officials" ie CROOKS that run them are doing their job. So when an "official" or "executive" ie CROOKS "do their job" and that means people die form bee stings because "hey we don't cover any injury inflicded by a bee", then that's just the way it is and we need to all support the troops for protecting our "freedom" by murdering countless millions of innocent men women and children. And if they were alive they should thank the troops too for killing them. America SUCKS, period.
"The rest of the world is not perfect of course. But somehow it seems to have managed to check all manner of corporate parasitism much more effectively than we seem capable of."
I know that this will go against the grain of many here, but what are corporations? groups of people with a licence to act as a group. which is given by the state, which is again an organization - a group of people. and this "licence" is a set of privileges over the individual. "rights" that the individual hasn't, and in some countries even rights that individuals should have and groups should not have
at the end, the question of corporate parasitivism is how much the greater group allows "smaller" groups to do what they want or not
but if your country is inbued with individualism, the very strenght that makes the state rein in corporations is... less there
and a lot of energy is then spent on requesting a weaker state versus both individuals and corporations. something that usually results in a weaker control on corporations, and no real improvement for the individual
the atomized individual is then prey for the groups. well, of course he is, he thinks he's playing tennis while the others are playing American Football
"Everywhere that I have been exposed to friendly, efficient and seemless government service..." you have been exposed to countries where the people have a deal with the state. yet to have this deal, they have to feel themselves part of this group which is the state. which is less individualism than in some places and a pinch of collectivism for itself
"rights" that the individual hasn't, and in some countries even rights that individuals should have and groups should not have
Care to delineate those 'rights'? Or are you just talkin' out your behind?
re: "Corporations"
TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS: Citizenship and the Charter of Incorporationby Richard L. Grossman and Frank T. Adams
- 1993
what a bunch of nonsense. "The courts declared corporate contracts, and the rate of return on investment, were property that could not be meddled with by citizens or by their elected representatives."
And why SHOULD courts, citizens, or elected representatives "meddle" with contracts or rate of return? If the contracts were set in a free marketplace, whose business is it? If it's a protected monopoly, such as the old AT&T back in the 40's and 50's, then yes, citizens/elected reps/courts did have a right to meddle, and THEY DID. There were dozens of public utility commissions set up across the country, regulating profits and ROI for industries such as electricity and telecoms. (That they ultimately failed in this task was brilliantly described by Richard Posner in his "Capture Theory of Regulation". )
Now, in today's crony capitalist world, it's a different story - yes, the Goldmans and AIG's of the world shouldn't get us to bear their losses while they swim in their profits, but that's not a fault of capitalism; it's a fault of our system, which has two enormous flaws: universal suffrage and campaign finance. Corporations have money; want favours. People have votes; want free stuff. Politicians need campaign money; can dispense favours and free stuff. You don't have to very bright to see the problem brewing there.
that's not a fault of capitalism; it's a fault of our system, which has two enormous flaws: universal suffrage and campaign finance...
The way the current "system" is implemented, it allows individual criminal activity to hide behind its construct and flourish. In reality, all societies, systems and even “corporations” are nothing more than the individual in charge dictating, allowing and propagating whatever activity he / she deems appropriate to continue. Control fraud inevitably reflects on a single individual that has misappropriated trust and should be dealt with as such.
I’m a firm believer that capital punishment’s virtue is not only that that particular transgressor will not be afforded the opportunity to strike again, but that others with a tendency to follow in the footsteps will have a tangible event to gain knowledge from that may indeed prevent the decision to repeat the activity. Unless, of course, the activity is just, right, and will create an environment of freedom for posterity.
Imo.
Top stuff Ghordius.
The cult of individualism is no less dangerous and imbalanced when taken to the extremes that it is in america today than was collective extremism in the USSR.
It is a classic folly of collective human nature that - in winning the cold war - American culture would beleive its point of difference with the USSR (libertarian individualism) to be worthy of pursuit above all else, instead of coming to the wiser realisation that both individuality and collectivism both have strengths than need to be balanced
The utter trajedy and joke of obamacare (and QE for that matter) is that instead of taking the best aspects of socialism and capitalism, it has combined the bloody WORST of both systems
I remember they called the end of the Cold war 'the end of history'. Makes me laugh my arse off to think the neo-cons re-started history through nothing but their own greedy, extremist folly.
I logged in to vote you down. The state has a dearth of respect for the rights of the individual. Liberty means I don't have to create or join a group in order to influence the Government to acknowledge my God-given rights. Government is too big and too powerful and the majority of Americans fear it, according to recent polls. Hence, we have tyranny. If the game now is to organize into groups to influence and protect one's interest from Government, using Government as a tool to rig the market or control others, liberty is lost.
I'm not sure you even understood what we were writing about
The interesting thing about all these calls to impeach is that they ignore the rest of the criminals.
They all need gathered up and taken to the:
The Fletcher Memorial
Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings...
...In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial
Wasters of life and limb...
Is everyone in?
Are you having a nice time?
Now the final solution can be applied.
Flloyd, foreva!
Lifesabeach..
If you argue that Obama is clueless about what is going on with the economy you are accused of racism.
So, for Heaven's sake, let's not do that.
Then the only conclusion is that he does know what he is doing and that he is therefore a criminal.
<--Stupid fucker
<--Criminal fucker
The buck does not stop there because there is no buck. Just like there is no spoon. There is only the Fed.
Can you do Joe Biden with a Hitler mustache then?
Second picture says it all.
Impeach?
(I gave you all up arrows by the way...lol)
A successful impeachment brings you...Joe (This is a big fucking deal man!) Biden.
These are your choices my friends...choose wisely ;-)
Impeach Joe Biden as well and at the same time. Concurrently they need to RECALL House Speaker John "The Boner" Boehner as he is next in line of Executive succession.
I will not buy into the False Dilemma.
See that there are a multitude of possibilities and I will not be restricted between two choices. I do not buy into False Dilemma Logical Fallacies.
Good point. Time to intoduce "impeaches" !!!
Used in a sentence:
Wez the people impeaches the president, vice president and all of congress
Its coming to the point were a million of us need to show up in DC and physically drag all their useless, corrupt, bought off asses
out of their chairs and deposit them in the potomac...
We are not Chinese. Do not place all your diseased pigs in our river.
LOL!!! When I was a kid, the potomac had signs everywhere stating not to touch the water, it was so polluted.
Guess we will have to bring those signs back !!!
Starting 25 years ago, VP selection has simply been an "insurance policy" for the president..
President Quayle?
President Gore?
President Cheney?
President Biden?
They finally figured it out...
But, when a Sasquatch called the Wookie sleeps in your bed is anyone really safe?
Oh wouldn't that be perfect. Three years of Unca Joe, everyone would laugh themselves to death. Problems solved.
Impeach2
What an ugly man is he?
The impeachment indictment:
Barack Hussein Obama has violated his oath of office. He has deliberately failed to faithfully execute the laws of the United States, particularly in regard to immigration and by granting wavers, contrary to law, for Obamacare.
He has allowed his cronies to benefit from contracts with the United States which were known by him to be scams. He has incited domestic unrest based upon race by his pronouncements. He has enriched his cronies to the detriment of the United States. He,in particular, has violated the following laws:
18 USC § 371 - Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States: If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
18 USC § 201 - Bribery of public officials and witnesses: (2) being a public official or person selected to be a public official, directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other person or entity, in return for:
(A) being influenced in the performance of any official act;
(B) being influenced to commit or aid in committing, or to collude in, or allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any fraud, on the United States; or
(C) being induced to do or omit to do any act in violation of the official duty of such official or person;
Barack Hussein Obama has committed the high crimes above described and must be impeached and,later, prosecuted by the next President's Attorney General.
Wait, impeachment takes too long. Let's try loud speakers blasting Slim Whitman records toward the WH. It works on martians.
Idoncare
Genada celebrates 1983 US invasion.
http://www.armytimes.com/article/20131025/NEWS/310250011/Grenada-thanks-U-S-celebrates-1983-invasion
You know the war that Reagan started. The one that was over in like one afternoon. With a clear US win.
Ah the good old days....
Impeach
Would the replacement clown be any different?
I have a recurring fantasy. I am in a house with a Rip Off, Theiving BANKER with my Gun pointed at his chest, ready to kill him.
He glibly remarks, before I pull the trigger, "What?!? Do you think that you are going to change anything? Really? They will just replace me with someone else who may even be worse."
I reply, "Yeah?, But one thing is for certain. I will change something. What may escape your understanding is that it will NOT BE YOU. YOU will be dead. And as for that??? That is a change that I can live with."
Then I pull the trigger sending the theif to hell.
That fantasy is almost to the point of...rumination.
So...with that recounting as the background...Yes the Replacement Clown is different as it is not the Same Clown. Understand?
He would be more humorous.
Nothin' a PEZ dispenser couldn't fix.
Impeach
impeach