President Osama had me in stitches today. He was in Green Bay, Wisc., kicking off his socialized medicine putsch. When he said a government-run insurance program would "keep the private sector honest," I actually had Diet Pepsi shooting out my nose. My cat was alarmed, seeing his thumb-equipped link to the can opener actually collapsed in a heap on the floor, gasping for breath, doubled over in laughter. That was a good one, Barry!
I think I mentioned before that I write fiction, among other things. (At least I'm honest about it.) A couple months ago I was trying to contrive some dire plot for a mystery, surfin' the Web, looking for interesting crime stories. Man, I never realized that Medicare/Medicaid is such an easy mark.
If you watch any TV, you've probably seen those commercials for the padded scooters for seniors and others. They're like upholstered wheelchairs, motorized. Some of the sellers give you a "Grabber" for free if you order the scooter. And the ads always claim, "You pay nothing!!" The seller will be happy to fill out all the paper work for you and submit it to Medicare/Medicaid for payment. Then there are also other ads for companies who sell diabetes supplies and other medical equipment. They usually feature some older movie star, apparently to lend some credibility to the whole thing since Hollywood is so full of heavyweights.
I don't mean to cast aspersions on all of these companies. I suppose some are honest, especially if they've been around for a while. However....
In doing the research for the mystery, I came across many, many accounts of rather elaborate scams involving these types of companies. Sure, they'll do all the paper work. They want your Medicare/Medicaid account number and your doctor's ID number, and then they'll just keep on billin' and never look back! Whether or not you receive anything more than a scooter and a grabber, the supplier will bill Medicare/Medicaid for hospital beds, a lifetime inventory of adult diapers, all kinds of stuff. You may be surprised to learn some day that you had major surgery that one weekend you thought you spent at the casino.
Something like 15% of all Medicare/Medicaid is wasted through fraud. Though I don't have the statistics in front of me, I do believe the last number I heard was that something like $60 billion (with a b) was flushed down the toilet last year through these schemes.
The federal government doesn't have the time or the staff to double-check all the claims they get in, and it's not their money anyway. They just pay and pay and pay.... Your tax dollars at work --or actually resting comfortably in somebody's bank account in the Cayman Islands.
On the other hand, in the free market, or at least among privately-owned insurance carriers, fraud like this just couldn't be tolerated. Private companies are actually accountable to their shareholders and even to their customers. They don't have a printing press in the back room to keep grinding out hundred-dollar bills. They actually keep track of their claims and expenditures. Unlike the buffoons in Washington.
So, anyway, I had a good laugh, and after a time, my cat came out from behind the couch.
It boggles my mind that President Osama so underestimates the intelligence of the American public. Here's a news flash for you, Barry -- in the US, the brightest and the best are not in government; they work in the private sector, where they have more freedom to innovate and to grow. Until you got into office, the private sector in America offered some real freedom to do this. So apparently since you've never worked in the private sector, you're judging all of us by the butthead louts you've encountered in your government work.
Most of us private American citizens are a whole lot smarter than that, but you really have no way of knowing that, do you? Your conversations with the public usually go only one way.... for fear of encountering another Joe-the-Plumber, maybe, who might ask you an embarrasing question? Like... isn't that socialism?
Oh, hey... ol' Barry isn't a socialist. Nah.... He's.... Santa Claus.
Does anyone except Nancy Pelosi believe anything this clown says anymore? And she's probably afraid Barry will take away the Air Force jet if she questions him too closely.
I don't know how he does it. He doesn't want to run an auto company. He doesn't want to run banks and financial institutions. He's just strolling down the street and these companies glom onto him, begging him to nationalize them and seize control. It's actually amazing. Nothing like that has ever happened to me or to anyone else I've ever met. It must be part of the Messiah thing.
Because it can't all be a coincidence, can it?
By the way, I found a copy of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and Prez Osama definitely does play by those rules. I'm paraphrasing them and will post them. Apparently Saul Alinsky, a devout communist, or his heirs, who apparently are not opposed to collecting scummy capitalist profits, have pretty tight clamps on the copyright -- they don't want to lose a penny on unauthorized circulation -- so I'll have to paraphrase to prevent a law suit.
Liars and hypocrites. It's really amazing. Well, not really amazing, considering where they come from and where they want to go.
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