Organized Crime and ObamaCare

Who is connecting the dots between Organized Crime and ObamaCare?

1. ". . . it is important to note that medical identity theft is an 'insider' crime more often than not, and frequently involves health professionals at some level. One Medicaire/Medicaid fraud investigator interviewed for this report went so far as to say that the crimes she saw always had a component of a medical professional being involved. Sometimes, even the doctors are victims of identity theft; one of the mechanisms of medical identity theft in organized crime is to use a legitimate and innocent doctors’ identity to steal patient identities. . . . Organized, complex schemes have been discovered in California, Florida, and New York. In the hands of organized crime, false claims are spread out across multiple patients, and the claim amounts are small . . .(to avoid arousing suspicion.). Organized patterns of this crime tend to involve what is called “clinic takeover.” This is where a group purchases a small clinic, operates the scam out it for a few months to a year, then shuts the operation down and disappears. The clinic may or may not be staffed with real doctors. Clinic takeover is particularly insidious because patients get taken into a slick scam and may have no idea that there was every a problem. Victims of clinic takeovers may in some cases be visiting clinics where each person they see there is involved in some way with the crime." [MEDICAL IDENTITY THEFT: The Information Crime that Can Kill You, by Pam Dixon, Executive Director, World Privacy Forum (Spring 2006)]

2.  "McAllen [Texas]is in Hidalgo County, which has the lowest household income in the country . . . McAllen has another distinction, too: it is one of the most expensive health-care markets in the country. Only Miami—which has much higher labor and living costs—spends more per person on health care. In 2006, Medicare spent fifteen thousand dollars per enrollee here, almost twice the national average. The income per capita is twelve thousand dollars. In other words, Medicare spends three thousand dollars more per person here than the average person earns. . . .The decision is whether we are going to reward the leaders who are trying to build a new generation of Mayos and Grand Junctions. If we don’t, McAllen won’t be an outlier. It will be our future." [The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care, by Atul Gawande (June 1, 2009)]

3. CALLER [Rob in Glen Cove, Long Island]: ". . . you can't offer these third-party system with these dollar-one benefits and expect any kind of crunching of the cost curve.  I spent the first eight years of my career inside a TPA where before they linked with networks where you paid copayments, you paid cash.  And as soon as they contracted with these networks where suddenly the employee could just say, well, you know, I'll just pay $15, we saw some of the stupidest claims that if you had to pay some money out of your pocket, you know they wouldn't have been done . . . when US health care and Oxford came to New York in 1993 the promise was we're going to give you physicals, we're going to keep the rates low and everyone's going to stay healthy because we're going to find the cancers ahead of time.  The total opposite happened.  Rates went up 600%."

RUSH:  "Why?"

CALLER:  "Because people had no invitation to want to be consumer oriented and the doctors realized, hey, my business has now morphed into a volume practice. . . ." 

RUSH:  ". . . . this is what's primarily wrong with our health care system and that is the patient and the provider and the service have no financial relationship to each other at all.  The patient's ability to pay is not a factor in the pricing . . ."

4. "President Obama's attempts to ram health-care reform through an increasingly reluctant Congress are starting to resemble a really eventful episode of 'The Sopranos' . . . the Obama administration and its congressional allies are willing to use every trick in the book to get this bill passed. [Dirty tricks include: buying votes with pork and special deals; re-writing Massachusetts election laws; attempting to hold up Scott Brown's Senate seating; and an "unprecedented willingness to ignore congressional rules."] . . . Those who support the president can expect favors. . . .Those who oppose the president can expect the political equivalent of a horse head between their sheets." [Final 'reform' push: twisting arms, by MICHAEL TANNER (March 10, 2010)]

Gangster government is turning our healthcare system into a monopolistic, fraudulent medical claims racket:
Organized crime has taken over the auto industry, via the unions and the US government. Competing automakers are now subject to nationally televised Congressional hearings. These hearings are struggle meetings*. What's next?

It is becoming clear that organized crime is taking over the US healthcare industry -- the temptation to own the third-party payer cash cow is overwhelming.

*  Struggle Meeting: "The most common way to kill during the [Communist Chinese] land reform was known as the  struggle meeting.  The CCP fabricated crimes and charged the landowners or rich farmers. The public was asked how they should be punished. Some CCP members or activists were already planted in the crowd to shout  'We should kill them!' and the landowners and rich peasants were then executed on the spot. At that time, whoever owned land in the villages was classified as a 'bully' [enemy of the people]." [Epoch Times Commentaries on the Communist Party - Part 7 (Dec 23, 2004)]