> A while ago I mentioned that government medical billing software has
> inadequate controls to protect against fraudulent or invalid billing
> attempts. I wasn't exaggerating.
>
TIME has a massive article this week on the entire
medical-pharmaceutical-billing-industrial complex, with great praise for
Medicare:
http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/print/
Search, in particular, for "$1.5 Billion A Day"
Was barely [NF], going [OT]...
Problem being, of course, that nobody is willing to fix this problem by
forcing providers to offer necessary services for reasonable prices,
thereby cutting their predatory profit margins. That would be "socialism".
They're only willing to cut what is paid for services--which results not in
more reasonable prices for necessary services, but simply in people going
without necessary services.
And yup, it's [OT].
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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