Posted by mtdewcmu on April 14, 2011, at 16:29:00
In reply to Re: Obama New Health Care Cuts Please Read + Comment, posted by mellow on April 14, 2011, at 15:34:03
> The reason this is concerning to many health agencies is because MC is are starting balloon ...
There is a fine line between being generous with reimbursements and creating perverse incentives for fraud, waste, and abuse. No doubt the government will make some mistakes, but you have to give them credit for walking this tightrope while trying to do right by patients and not go bankrupt. There is no simple solution. This dilemma exists in all the industrialized countries. I have hope that the government will make corrections as problems arise. No one obviously wants hospitals to go out of business. I guess I'm just an optimist in this regard.
> Lets says that patient is a whimp and goes home and is a little constipated and then calls 911 because they swear they are having another heart
Again, they are trying to create the right incentives for hospitals. It's too easy to do tests that aren't really necessary and bill Medicare. (Plus they want to see hospitals put a higher priority on avoidable mistakes.) If the fraud, waste, and abuse are minimized, there will be more money available for all the honest care providers.
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> I'm not saying I don't think MC is beneficial. In fact it is critical in the lives of our seniors, but it has gotten so beyond that in scope and our population has gotten so lazy in
The health care law passed in 2010 has a lot of fixes built in to it for Medicare's systemic problems. It is our best hope to save Medicare. I don't mean to preach, but there is just so much doom and gloom. If nothing is done now, there will end up being a crisis and the fixes may be worse.I worked in a hospital for several years, too, and I would not want to see all the new paperwork and annoyance of having the boss be _even_more_ worked up about preventable mistakes. But that's just how it goes.
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