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"Some Folks Were Lying?" Medicaid Chief Tavenner 'Steps Down' After Obamacare "Error"
Marilyn Tavenner, head of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, plans to step down at the end of February, she told her staff in an e-mail.
As Bloomberg reports, Tavenner didn’t say why she was leaving.
In November, she acknowledged that her agency had made a mistake in its calculation of the number of people enrolled under Obamacare.
As a reminder... from November
The Obama administration said it erroneously calculated the number of people with health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, incorrectly adding 380,000 dental subscribers to raise the total above 7 million.
The accurate number with full health-care plans is 6.7 million as of Oct. 15, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed today, saying the U.S. won’t include dental plans in future reports.
“The mistake we made is unacceptable,” Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said on her verified Twitter account. “I will be communicating that clearly throughout the department.”
The error was brought to light by Republican investigators for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, using data they obtained from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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“A mistake was made in calculating the number of individuals with effectuated Marketplace enrollments,” said Kevin Griffis, a spokesman for the U.S. Health and Human Services Department. “Individuals who had both Marketplace medical and dental coverage were erroneously counted in our recent announcements,” he said in an e-mail.
The new count puts enrollment short of a 2013 estimate by the Congressional Budget Office, adopted last year as a goal by the Obama administration, that 7 million people would be enrolled this year.
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even that statement is lie cuz they all iie period
Obama will fix everything with Obamacare 2
We lied to some folks.
Some folks never made the first premium payment.
Unfortunately, medical providers that want to stay solvent actually verify the patient's benefits are active before rendering treatment.
I think they need more Hot Chocolate Boy ads.
pods
And don't forget the mother-of-all-unintended-consequences...
Well, like I said back in October of 2013...
The following provision, in a nation of
deadbeats that cannot put their hands on $2,000 cash for an emergency,
when combined with $2,000 deductibles and 70/30 co-pays, is going to be
the mother-of-all-unintended-consequences.
Furthermore, health plans from the marketplace could present financial obstacles for physicians, because those health plans are required to have a 90-day grace period for policyholders that do not pay their monthly premiums on time.
While other health plans would cut off coverage if a patient did not
pay their bill on time, the health plans offered in the marketplace
would still indicate the patient was covered during that grace period,
and retroactively revoke payments to the physician for treatment
provided during that time. In those situations, the doctor would be forced to seek payment from the patient for services already provided.
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2013/October/21/Texas-Doctors-Un...
Short providers, long insurers, long collection agencies.
TRANSLATION:
She's getting out before the shit really hits the fan in DC!
SEEE YAAA!!
The most important number to determine the viability of the ACA, that we will never learn, is how many Obamacare members made all of their premium payments. From what I know, it is pathetically small, and thus the whole ACA is FUBAR.
Save yourselves. Run away from Obamacare as fast and as far as you are able, just like Tavenner is doing.
Only the US government could try to fix the rising costs of health care and the burden of the uninsured on all of us by making it worse for everyone but the insurance companies and convincing enough people that it's better to get re-elected.
They shoot horses, don't they?
Yes.
But not landmark legislation.
Instead, they
1) declare success
2) promote everyone
3) pay contractors enormous sums to "fix it" after the fact
4) leave government to work for these very same contractors, or to become lobbyists
Ordinarily, yes. I don't think this one is fixable, though. I think it's so deeply flawed from initial concept forward they might have to broom almost all of it and start over.
So? They do not give a fat rat's ass.
See Step 4
That is remarkably similar to the 5 steps of system development.
1) Wild Enthusiasm
2) Disillusionment
3) Search For the Guilty
4) Punishment of the Innocent
5) Promotion of the Non-Participants
She could make some plastic surgeon a rich man!
Take that multimillion dollar (total) equivalent - $100K, plus, per year, government pension, plus $20K/year health care and run with it.
Government employees - the true one percenters. Become wealthy for sitting at a desk harassing the people who pay you.
Exactly; they are beneficiaries of the welfare state but significantly, they are the weapon that the tyrants use against the producers. Their votes and their support for the system not only includes themselves but their families.
Once the IRS knows who you are, whatever project the government undertakes, in this case Obamacare, they will get the money they need from you. If you refuse to enroll in Obamacare and have no health plan the IRS police will get their penalty from your tax refund. You are an enemy of the State.
In short, the Obama/ Democrat/Republican “affordable health care” plan is designed to further cripple America’s hard working middle class because it is a wealth redistribution plan based on ”affordable.”
Don’t believe it? Then who are the 6 million targeted for penalties?
If you are one of the 6 million or so subject to financial penalties, “the IRS will subtract the penalty amount out of any refund owed.” If you don't get a refund or the penalty is greater than your refund, and you don’t pay, “the IRS could take it out of any future tax refunds. If your taxes are withheld through your employer, the agency could also get the money through that route.”
Here’s the Leninesque caveat: “Several groups of people are exempted by law from paying the Obamcare penalties.
“If the lowest-cost insurance plan is more than 8% of your income, for example, you won't be stuck with a fine if you don't obtain coverage. You can also apply for economic hardship exemptions…
“You're not subject to Obamacare penalties if you're a Native American or if you're not an American citizen. In prison? Don't worry …”
This information from The Motley Fool shows just how big the "affordable" discrepancy is: "The Congressional Budget Office estimates that of the 30 million Americans who likely won't have coverage in 2016, only 6 million or so will be subject to financial penalties.”
The two keys are, you can afford to pay and you refuse to pay.
http://www.fool.com/server/printarticle.aspx?file=/investing/general/2013/10/20/obamacare-penalties-3-things-to-know-before-201
Add to the exempt group people who get (cheap but good) health care in a foriegn country.
Fuck off tavener you slimy ugly bitch!
I'd go long payday loan companies who are looking to add a new product line: cash for organs.
"Your Ma is really sick and you need $2K for the ER deductible? Let me tell you about our kidney and cornea donation program."
Many, if not most, of the Obamacare plans actually in use today are $5,000 in-network deductibles, $10,000 out-of-network deductibles, and 30% coinsurnace.
Actually I find the deductibles totally OK, as that is in line with the idea of insurance.
Questionable because gameable by the insurance companies is which providers they select to be in-network.
Totally unacceptable is 30% co-insurance for all amounts over the deductible. Maybe the real costs for the provider are even less than those 30% of the billed amount?
If you like your Dr you can keep your Dr....
Barry needs to resign also if he had a shred of integrity
I'm thinking of the rename/rebrand meme.
Obamacare changed to 'Muslim Outreach' should work just as well for that system as it has for NASA.
Since NASA is virtually dead, any slight confusion between the two should be easily overcome with a short advertising blitz.
I am also thought processing a more friendly name for 'derivatives' in general. Perhaps 'Long term care instruments', packaged for the truly needy.
Our mussy overlords will be appreciative of such a gesture of forethought before our subservience begins.
I'm guessing the term 'pork' will have to be done away with, as well, when describing .gov 'bring it back home' programs.
Perfect.
http://www.silverdoctors.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/phys2.png
maybe something like this?
Which Nice Folksy Folks Are More Corrupt, Ukraine Or usA ???
Thats a trick question. The same folks are running both slaughterhouses.
The absurdity of the juvenile lies this administration tells on a regular basis is truly mind-boggling. I never thought that a majority of the people in the US were stupid enough to believe this stuff, but I was wrong. I'm convinced if you dropped most people in the middle of the desert and told them to drink the sand, they would do it. Not out of love or loyalty or trust, but because they just don't know any damned better.
"Obamacare 2: The Unraveling"
During his third term...
More please. No really more of the idiots need to go.
Will she get to draw full benefits after her departure, on taxpayer backs?
Only if she is allowed to continue to breathe. I keep hoping the nail gun phenomenon will magically cross over to ex-Federal employees.
Is obama just hiring the same person over and over? She looks just like Lois Lerner
"We added some extra folks"
Still funny.
First we can't trust the Swiss on their peg, and now the Obama administration lies to us too? Shit. My whole worldview is probably going to have to change. No more unicorns shitting Skittles in my world. Next thing you know, someone will tell me Santa Claus isn't real...
2 jets DID kock down 3 buildings and we will not discuss this further or I will have to inform dead eye Dick we have a terrywrist.
It's just one little lie. Hell, the President lies every morning when he tells the Wookie 'I love you'.
... A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is a politician ...
This was only passed because they knew they could print money.....no way this would work in the private sector...
"Most transparent(ly deceptive) administration ever."
All part of Change You Can Bereave In.
funny in a few ways.
we fudged some numbers
too funny..
Of course she will have a generous pension and healthcare benefits.....forever. Heck, islam isn't attacking our country as much as our own people!!!
Guess there is some larger number 'mistake' about to come out. Something along the lines of ... Of the 6.5 million enrolled only half actually payed their bill.
Medicaid Chief Tavenner is stepping down in February to assume her new role as " The Tooth Fairy".
hell they all lie about everything. why quit over that?
"What difference does it make?!?"
It's so bullshit. We have to wait for the opposing party to call out the other party. It is impossible for each party to police itself. therefore, errors, lies, and flatout corruption will knowingly continue until they are caught. What is worse is that any true oversight/criminal prosecution is in the hands of the Democrats (IRS, FBI, SEC, etc.). The two party system is a complete farce. John Gruber is right. The American voters are idiots.
The Culture in Washington is: "One Big Lie"
It starts in the White House and filters down thru Congress and Stagnates in the Judicial branch.
Only a Revolution can fix America now. Simple really.
And don't forget that the lies and propaganda are supported by the state-run media parrots.
She didn't step down. She grabbed her golden parachute and jumped.
I got mine bitch
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We Grubered some folks.
Obamotopea: Lying is only such when caught.
How on earth can there be one person left that does not know that the words "honest" and "Government" can never be used in the same sentence?
Oil & water mix much easier.
Liars all.
Part of political script - schmuck in, screw the public, scapegoat out.
Just come out and say we were lying the whole time because we're ushering in single payer. Nobody's paying attention anyway.
This is similar to what will happen to the fed employees who are engaged in manipulating the market. Once it's general knowledge that they are doing it, the higher ups at the fed, like Yellen, will say "Kevin Henry how dare you sir, you need to resign or I'll fire you" Then tell the public, "I couldn't believe that they were manipulating the market and data. This is why we kept doing our idiotic policies because we thought the data our employees were giving us was real." Kevin and others thrown under the big bus and no wall st. jobs for them because their names will be too tarnished.
"Tavenner just a pawn in game of life."
and death.
And money.
The truly tragic part is that millions of people still believe the government lies.
In conversation with a coworker, I suggested that he should look up "Victoria Nuland" in regards to what is happening in Ukraine. He said, "I don't know who she is and I don't need to look up Victoria Nuland." Obviously, you know where he stays in regards to Ukraine.
We BAMBOOZLED some folks.
It pays not to work.
Stick with the program, whatever it is now!
"We mis-counted some folks."
(really? you think she's stepping down because of a miscalculation and a small lie? I have a bridge in the 'Lou to sell you)
Here's some classic Tavenner (starting at 3:20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0da4PjaS90A
Why is it """ILLEGAL""" for us poor mundanes to """Lie""" to the Offasir and go to jail, and these scumsuckers simply step down with all feederal benefits and any larcenous gain from those they really represent?
From Wiki
" (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States, even by mere denial"
A number of notable people have been convicted under the section, including Martha Stewart,[2] Rod Blagojevich,[3] Scooter Libby,[4] Bernard Madoff,[5] and Jeffrey Skilling.[6]"
So this ........... person, and for that matter, the rest of government lies to the entire nation and all is well?
"Why?" you ask? Thats easy, did you miss the passing of the law that stated that anyone in the club gets a get out of jail card free? Hell man, they sent that notice out in the mail on a need to know basis. The envelope was marked OFFICIAL USE ONLY Read and destroy". Shame you threw yours away....
Funny how premiums and co-pay doubled the next year on this to where it's unaffordable health care...
SOME FOLKS WERE LYING? LOL LOL LOL
In related news, one of the mega insurance companies just hired a new executive.
There has to be a direct coorelation between people surprised by this and IQ level.
The unspoken danger in government run health care is that they will use the availability of benefits to reward obedience or punish dissent. Your daughter needs a kidney transplant? Sorry. Our records indicate you are a Tea Party member and therefore your request will need further review.
Government is the problem, not the solution.
IF people have not been paying their mortgage/property tax payments for a year or three then they probably aren't going to be able to pay medical insurance premiums or deductables either.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/28/real_estate/foreclosure/
"Nationwide, the average time it takes to process a foreclosure -- from the first missed payment to the final foreclosure auction -- has climbed to 674 days from 253 days just four years ago, according to LPS Applied Analytics.
It takes much longer than that in Florida, where the process averages 1,027 days, nearly 3 years. In D.C., foreclosure averages 1,053 days and delinquent borrowers in New York often stay in their homes for an average of 906 days.
And while some borrowers are looking for ways to make good with lenders and get their homes back, many aren't paying a dime. Nearly 40% of homeowners in default have not made a payment in at least two years, according to LPS. "
This interactive ZIllow map breaks down not just residential real estate in negative equity; but, more importantly shows percentages of home loans in delinquency:
http://www.zillow.com/visuals/negative-equity/#10/40.7649/-74.0108
There are whole zip codes where 20%, 30%, even 40% or more of mortgages are delinquent in parts of New York & New Jersey.
These areas have highly inflated prices and dense populations. We are talking about millions of mortgages that are not being serviced that have been and will be clogging up the forclosure pipline for years. Who is going to buy these homes? The people who just proved that they could not or would not pay? Hedge funds? Foreigners?
But, to the point: who in their right mind conceived that these same people would be capable of or interested in paying for health insurance when they are either incapable of or williing to make payments on their mortage or pay the taxes that fund the social services and education system kthey constantly clamor must be maintained and enriched for their benefit?
......so, the first rat jumps ship......
Someone really needs to analyze the P&L's of the health insurance industry pre-ObamaCare and post.....then we'll know for sure just which special interst group got their payoff.....based on my own experience, I am now paying far more for far less, so someone else is getting my $$ and it is not my doctor.
As someone who is getting a $650 a month subsidy for my wife's insurance, thank you. My $1800 a month SS check doesn't go far so this helps a lot.
Some folks were lying, some folks were skimming, some folks were cheating, some folks were making campaign promises and not keeping them. Just good old plain folks like you or me trying to do their best.
Glich Bitch
mistake my black ass...
WTF. Obammy Care is an ENTITLEMENT that falls under the umbrella of the SOCIAL SECURITY ACT. An act tied to State Police Powers (jesus fucking Crist read the damn thing UNEMPLOYMENT< OLD AGE SURVIVORS under POOR LAWS!!!) that requied State/federal cooperation under the federal COMPACT CLAUSE. The god damn federal government does NOT possessState police powers as those are reserved to the States via the TENTH AMENDMENT. However the fed does possess the POWER OF TAXATION. THE FEDS CAN tax the PRIVILEGES it creates. Hence Roberts was correct. The ACT is an operation of the federal taxing power. Obammy Care is the greatest federal TAX increase in history. So with that understanding there was NO miscalculation. The fact that the RATS are jumping ship is nothing more than sideshow entertainment.
Mission accomplished. Further, when the feds take over ALL healthcare, your judicially enforceable insurance CONTRACTS will be replaced by an ENTITLEMENT the terms of which can be modified or taken away at the will of the legislative body that created them. NO PROPERTY OR CONTRACT RIGHTS IN THE PUBLIC TREASURY and the courts do NOT deal with political questions. So when the ass clowns in charge decide that your LACK of revenue generating worth no longer justifies coverage, GO HOME AND DIE.
We are on the road to civil war. Hedge accordingly
THe sorrowing of the damned!
Ya think she'll be working for a Health Insurance Provider in the next few months?
Tomorrow.
My plan was cancelled last year. I tried the bronze plan with double the deductible AND premium. After denied charges, I cancelled. I purchased temporary insurance with my exemption. I am joining a sharing ministry this year. Obamacare is catastrophic insurance at cadillac prices. Buyer beware!
King v. Burwell should invalidate the whole thing.
If it were meant in the bill that states that did not create a state run exchange could get Federal tax credits (then paid by employers). then there would be no reason for a state to create an exchange. That is the crux of the Constitutional question put before SCOTUS. Individual state exchanges needed to be created to be compliant with the Commerce Clause--- since they created "INTERSTATE COMMERCE" that was to be regulated by the Federal Governemnt. Otherwise "health care" is well held to be regulated by the individual states.
Of course the IRS definition of "state run exchange" to include Federal exchanges in states that set up NO EXCHANGE is nonsense. (The IRS is already exposed as an arm of the Obama administration).
King has standing as an employer who must pay the tax credits in a state where no exchange was set up.
Roberts even said in the original validation of Obamacare mandate as a tax that the states setting up exchanges would or not would determine if the law was viable and Constitutional. As it is only 14 states set up the exchanges--- so in 37 states the Commerce Clause is being violated.
Game Over.
They should hear the case immediately, since so many people signing up will have their tax credits invalidated-- and thus will not be able to afford the shitty coverage they are getting. One big clusterfuck--- but it is meant that way, as the Marxists always create a crisis in order to "solve it".
@MickV
hey should hear the case immediately, since so many people signing up will have their tax credits invalidated-- and thus will not be able to afford the shitty coverage they are getting. One big clusterfuck--- but it is meant that way, as the Marxists always create a crisis in order to "solve it".
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They can now not afford the premium b/c we already know they can't afford to use the plan they are forced to pay for. Good luck in 2016 Dems. Nice bait and switch to convice the rubes that Health Insurance translate to Affordable Health Care.
Hopefully if King v. Burwell voids the subsidies, the Democratic Party will go the way of the Whigs by 2020.
Being that the Constitution reserves non-enumerated powers to the states and people, and the DC US does not have the enumerated power of mandating health insurance, Obamacare is Unconstitutional.
Being that the only exception to the twice stated prohibition on non-apportioned direct taxes is the 16th's exception for income, Obamacare is not a Constitutional tax.
Therefore it follows that Obamacare is null and void.
To enforce such an Unconstitutional law is to commit aggression against the people and/or the states. By definition, aggression against people's Life, Liberty, and/or Property is war.
The Constitution defines treason as levying war against them, the people, and/or the states.
Therefore those enforcing Obamacare are in violation of Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution, and are criminals, as is the entire DC US.
The banksters need to repay us.
As for the apportionment clause argument would you consider the following. The "tax" on wages, ect aka the so called "income tax"is an indirect excise. Yes, your labor is your property and what is exchanged for that property is also "property". That is on one side of the argument. But to have STANDING to bring tjhose arguments depends on the context of the individuals circumstances. For those within the Social Security "system" those constititonal and judicial protections of Contract and property have been exchanged for what the courts of law and equity would classify as extraordinary protections paid for with money from the public trasury. The very basis of a "taxable privilege". The term EXCISE tax and PRIVILEGE tax are one in the same. Your voluntary (coerced) application into the system operates in law as a WAIVER. The privilege tax uses the wage, income, ect as a "unit of measurement" to calculate the indirect excise. So the income tax remains as an excise.
Now back to your apportionment argument. You want a judicial determination on the apportionment clause? Then look to the legal/legislative framework of the ACTS that authorised this abomination. The States when handing their police powers over to the feds (reference federal preemption laws/supremacy clause) were automatically preempted for purposes of taxation and administrative control. But yet, there the States sit. Corrupt as hell from the word go and the founders knew it. Thats why there inserted the CONTRACT CLAUSE in the federal constitution. But let me stay on point. The courts of law and equity in existing case law confirm that passage of the SS Act required state cooperation via police powers.
We live in a universe that runs on the rules of causality. Look to the effect of State action. Can the States accomplish indirectely what they are constitutionally PROHIBITED from doing directly? Can the States hand the feds the power to interfere with the obligation of contracts and at the same time give the feds the power to OVERIDE the apportionment clause? The courts say NO. Neither government has the ability to alter the scope of the powers of the other period. But they did. Why worry about apportioning a direct tax on labor "property" when now you can simply use the property as a unit of measurement to calculate the indirect excise? OOPS. Was this mere oversight? Unlikely
That is where the correct argument lies. And unless you have a world class legal team with deep pockets the argument would never reach the USSC. When peaceful redress becomes functionally impossible, violent redress will ensue.
And so it will be.
Fuck the Zionist controlled courts. They are nothing but curtains to hide tyranny behind.
The courts do not back the Constitution, they back power, theft, treason, and tyranny. "We the People" must back the Constitution, we are the Constitution's force, and power. I, you, We, shall demand that the Constitution IS, and that they adhere to its tenets, or suffer us, "We the People."
"And unless you have a world class legal team with deep pockets the argument would never reach the USSC. When peaceful redress becomes functionally impossible, violent redress will ensue. And so it will be."
Ultimately their courts must resort to their guns. They have a lot of guns, but We the People have, and are, many, many more--We are the power, they are the subjects. We shall not suffer them, but they us.
The banksters need to repay us.
"It's only fair."
Because 7 million insured is so much better than 6.7 million which still leaves nearly 40 million uninsured. VICTORY ACHIEVED!
This is re Medicare, not Obamacare, but it is a very scary look at the future, so here goes. I had not realized how truly terrible the reimbursement rates are. My dad had some very complex stenting done at Yale; it was not your run of the mill stenting. On the bill where the surgeon billed Medicare $4K, Medicare actully paid the surgeon about $180. On the bill where he billed Medicare $40k, Medicare actually paid the surgeon about $650. Obviously the initial billings were excessive (although not as much so as I would have guessed, given the technology and infrastructure and training that is being supported), but the amount paid wouldn't cover the cost of providing the service; not a fraction of it.
No wonder it is impossible in CT to find a doctor who is taking new Medicare patients; they have to be losing money on every procedure.
My parents realized a few years ago that their local GP basically sees his Medicare patients as charity patients (given the reimbursements), but we had not realized that surgeons are in the same boat.
Is Castro's brother going to let Americans pay cash for medical treatment in Cuba?