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ORIGINAL PUBLIC DOMAIN WHITEHOUSE AUDIO & VIDEO can be found at www.whitehouse.gov {this week President obama spoke about Medicare & his promises for seniors. What do you think? Sincere promises about substantive issues or polished rhetoric? Will Republicans change Medicare so that seniors will have to pay 00 more in the future or is that a scare tactic? ). This is a video of President Obama’s weekly address shared by the White House for the public. I am sharing it with my channel subscribers NOT because I endorse Obama or agree with what he says. Most of you know I am a moderate-conservative evangelical Christian, and am primarily in disagreement with our president & his wife because of their position on unborn life & traditional marriage . Yet I also believe the American people should listen carefully to what the President says in his weekly address and analyze it critically. In this particular address, he talks about Medicare. Listen. Here is the verbatim transcript of the weekly address provided by the white house website: ” Hi, everybody. Over the last few weeks, there’s been a lot of talk about Medicare, with a lot of accusations and misinformation flying around. So today I want to step back for a minute and share with you some actual facts and news about the program. This week, we found out that, thanks to the health care law we passed, nearly 5.4 million seniors with Medicare have saved over .1 billion on prescription drugs. That’s an average of more than …
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Medicare project linked to health law takes next step
The four-year project will be administered by the Medicare agency's Innovation Center, a creation of the 2010 healthcare law that seeks to reduce costs and improve healthcare delivery. The center's latest effort aims to foster well coordinated primary …
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Poll: Support for health care law grows in California
Poll: Support for health care law grows in California. A majority of California voters support the national health care overhaul, with the proportion of voters strongly favoring the legislation growing over the previous year, according to a new Field Poll.
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Insurance Rebates Seen as Selling Point for Health Law
“I've been trying to explain that to people — that very few people would be getting a check,” said Timothy S. Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee University who is an expert on the health care law. Still, he and others say the rebate provision …
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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 22, 2012
The L.A. Mid-City Integrated Care Collaborative, a partnership led by Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles (JFS) to provide coordinated community-based services that will reduce avoidable hospital readmissions for Medicare patients, was selected on Friday, August 17 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as one of 17 additional sites across the nation to participate in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (CCTP).
CCTP reflects a new, innovative approach to health care delivery. The program identifies community-based organizations such as JFS that can provide care transitions services across the continuum of care and partner with one or more acute care hospitals and other community providers. The L.A. Mid-City Integrated Care Collaborative includes hospitals, medical personnel, social workers, mental health professionals, and senior care specialists that will be able to provide better, more sustainable health care services all at a lower cost to the health care system.
Recent reports show that $ 12 billion is being spent annually on hospital readmissions for Medicare patients that might be preventable, said Paul S. Castro, CEO of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles. By bringing together providers from across the care spectrum, older adults with complex medical and social service needs will receive the follow-up care and resources they need and will spend less time hospitalized unnecessarily.
Congressman Henry Waxman stated: I am delighted that the Los Angeles Mid-City Integrated Care Collaborative has been selected as a Community-based Care Transitions Program (CCTP) by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This partnership, led by Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, will take a new approach to reducing hospital readmissions, improving care and reducing costs. The partnership is the only collaborative selected in Los Angeles County and is among just a handful of collaboratives selected nationwide. I am particularly proud of this remarkable grouping of partners for the highly innovative and effective services they provide the residents of LA County.
With new tools provided by the Affordable Care Act, we can aggressively implement programs that will help hospitals reduce preventable errors, said Herb K. Schultz, Regional Director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The L.A. Mid-City Integrated Care Collaborative, through this initiative, will improve the quality of health care, and provide real assistance to medical professionals and hospitals to support their efforts to reduce harm.
We know that providing medical care for our patients does not end at our front door, said Andrew B. Leeka, president and CEO of Good Samaritan Hospital. The L.A. Mid-City Collaborative will bring additional resources to Medicare patients with chronic conditions, to help them receive the care they need.
Cathy Fickes, CEO of St Vincent Medical Center, said SVMC is delighted to be part of the Collaborative. The program will help reduce readmissions rates and provide continuity of care for our patients into their homes.
The L.A. Mid-City Integrated Care Collaborative was formed by Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles in partnership with Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Vincent Medical Center and Olympia Medical Center. In addition, the L.A. Mid-City Integrated Care Collaborative includes 14 skilled nursing facilities and rehabilitation centers affiliated with Skilled Healthcare LLC and Country Villa Health Services, along with community-based organizations serving older adults in the Mid-City area (the Alzheimers Association, Hollywood Senior Multipurpose Center, St. Barnabas Senior Services, the KHEIR Center, and St. Vincent Meals on Wheels) and the Los Angeles City Department of Aging, and the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. The organizations chosen for the L.A. Mid-City Integrated Care Collaborative have a long history of providing a continuum of home, community and institutional based care to older adults in Los Angeles in a contiguous section of the diverse metropolitan area.
The L.A. Mid-City Integrated Care Collaborative will begin providing transition services in Fall 2012, serving Medicare beneficiaries living in the Mid-City area of Los Angeles, stretching from downtown west to the 405 Freeway and from Hollywood south to the 10 Freeway. Geographically spanning the most dynamic, multicultural and densely-populated districts of Los Angeles, services will be provided in English, Spanish, Russian, Korean, and Farsi in a community that struggles with issues of poverty, immigrant integration and high hospital readmission rates.
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Yeah i spelled macgee wrong its magee! Jasper county Mississippi! This is a hostage vdeo of Jeffrey Magee similar to the Bloomberg hostage video! He seems to telling us this information under diress from the oppresive republicans behind him! He is not telling you the truth or facts either! He does occaisionally tell a truth but the reality is that If the whole country had free health care we would not need medicare! Also he says that they will replace medicare with vouchers to buy your own insurance. They dont say that the vouchers will only cover 1/3 of the cost of your private insurance. Way more then you would have ever paid in medicare copayments! Instead of having a healthy retirement you will have a suffering and indignant retirement. Talk about those death panels! The entire republican party is the death panel and if you are not privlidged or wealthy like them then you will suffer! They will also continue to tax you for medicare as well! So make this the year to vote for the future of our country and our people! DO NOT GIVE CONTROL BACK TO THE PEOPLE WHO GOT US IN THIS POSITION! Get out and vote!!! I know medicare is in trouble! After all there where many years of the republicans that have raided the medicare funds to pay off other unrelated crap to balance their budget! dont forget to email jeffreymagee1@hotmail.com I believe this is the guy here although it is a few years ago. Jeffrey Magee, Coordinator of Food Service Systems at Forrest General Hospital www …
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New York, New York (PRWEB) August 14, 2012
In a press release on July 31, 2012, author and investigative journalist James R. Goldberg, reminds the public that, The cost containment of healthcare is a covert way of saying, charge patients more and pay doctors less!
Robert Marshall, Goldbergs publisher, notes that doctors are leaving medicine in droves and those considering a career in medicine are being deterred by massive cutbacks in payments to physicians. According to the Washington Monthly, 21 March 2012, older physicians were more likely to think about retiring: especially those with high Medicare or Medicaid patients. Doctors in solo or two-doctor practices were even more likely to retire than those who have joined large practices or who have become hospital employed. Who will make a lifetime investment to join a profession which is being beaten to death through ever falling reimbursements? he asks.
Insurance companies are certainly not crying the blues. But last year alone, doctors suffered a 26 percent cutback in insurance reimbursements. And this is only the beginning, Goldberg responds. Indeed, without respect to partisanship, everyone will eventually become a patient. In a real way, the lame attempt to makeover what was once the greatest medical system in the world could turn into a moot debate if there are fewer doctorsandif the quality of those who do practice continues to fall.
Goldberg went on to warn, Many people believe doctors are a privileged class who are raking in money. The fact is they are suffering gigantic losses. Small practices are all but extinct; insurance-dominated medicine has placed a stranglehold on doctors and is illegally practicing medicine by making medical decisions which should be only between doctor and patient.
Goldberg further expressed his amazement saying, Drugs prescribed by doctors are constantly being rejected by insurance companies. Valid tests and recommended surgeries are being turned down by the insurance cartel that dictates how medicine is practiced in America. Many hospital corporations, such as Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), as reported in the Associated Press on 8/7/12, have recently been investigated for performing unnecessary and often dangerous procedures to generate additional profits. Patients, along with their doctors, are being charged higher premiums, increased co-payments and insurmountable deductibles. Doctors are being squeezed to the point where they cannot financially survive without joining administrative dominated hospital networks. The hospital conglomerates exact heavy work tolls on doctorsmany of whom now have patient visits totaling four minutes on average.
Doctors, practitioners and nurses are being worked to exhaustion. As the baby boomer population peaks, less and less resources will be available and timely access to physicians, except for the elite, will be measured in terms of months. If you thought you had a serious problem, could you wait that long to be given an appointment?! Goldberg exclaims.
The author believes that the real debate should not be about revising the healthcare system but rather saving it from total collapse. The American Medical Association (AMA), to which, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2008, reports only 34% of the 348,000 doctors in the country are members of the AMA. Goldberg feels that the AMA, “has abandoned the interests of representing doctors who have taken and continue to take a major hit from falling reimbursement and lack of effective lobby and representation at the highest levels of the Federal Government.”
Goldberg added, The insurance industry pretends to be interested in reducing Medicare fraud. Case record shows they have been fined billions in thousands of cases of fraud against patients yet none have gone to jail. Its quite the opposite. By looking the other way, Department of Health and Human Services senior officials are rewarded with gigantic compensation packages after leaving office.
This is a nasty, terrible joke. Like the banks, there is hemming and hawing. But the bottom line is that government overseers canand dooperate with impunity. This is moral death for an unwitting society which has been sold to the highest bidder. It makes me cry to think of how the corporate and government criminals have strangled the public into submission, Goldberg said.
Baby boomers are moving into an age where they will require more medical care and all signs are pointing to the fact that less care will be available when they need it. With doctors progressively receiving less reimbursement for medical care and patients paying more and more, the handwriting is on the wall. Thousands of doctors are leaving medicine, and those once considering entering medicine dont want to incur the enormous debt of a medical education if they cant recoup their investment.
According to Kaiseredu.org, the size of healthcare in 2010 was $ 2.6 trillion. Goldberg notes that in 2007, the Department of Justice (DOJ) estimated that $ 750 billion had been stolen in Medicare fraud alone. The DOJ recovered $ 1.2 billion, a significant portion from the medical insurance industry, at a cost of $ 250 million for their internal expenses. It should be clear to the public that it is the insurance companies who dispense Federal medical benefits and many firms bonus their employees not to pay out benefits.
Goldberg has written to Senate Finance Committee leaders Max Baucus (D-MT) and Charles Grassley (R-IA), who have jurisdiction over healthcare, to reconsider the course of destruction on which we are now engaged. He is pleading with them to reassess the implications of financially strangling doctors and placing an ever increasing burden on patients.
Marshall reiterates that Goldberg is concerned that what is not detailed or provided for in Obamacare, stating, If the people behind the Insurance Exchanges can to do as they please, with virtually no controls, weve opened the door to a havoc from which we may never recover. Goldberg believes it is simple to see how continuing cutbacks for doctors coupled with heavy financial burdens on patients can only lead to new and vast fortunes for the insurance companies.
Goldbergs explosive book on the corruption of our health care system and his cautionary tale about the evils of Medical Tourism, The American Medical Money Machine: The Destruction of Healthcare in America and The Rise of Medical Tourism, is available on Amazon in paperback or Kindle, as well as through bookstores everywhere.
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Mitt Romney attacked President Barack Obama Saturday over the future of Medicare in his first weekly podcast ahead of the November election.
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AZ Retirees from Tucson, Phoenix, and Prescott celebrated 47 years of Medicare with local leaders. Medicare and Medicaid were signed into law in 1956 to make sure that working people, seniors, and people with disabilities could get the healthcare they need at critical moments. Both programs have a proven track record of success that is detailed in the report we’re releasing today. It is this record of success that we should be building upon and expanding. Instead, however, these programs face attack after attack from conservative lawmakers who want to roll back the clock on these guaranteed benefits and leave our families on their own with the insurance companies haggle for health care for their aging parents, children with disabilities like autism or cerebral palsy, and people with disabilities that require the most complicated care. The Republican budget passed earlier this year dismantles Medicaid and ends Medicare as we know it, undermining the economic security of middle class families all over the country. Medicare is the best way to provide seniors and people with disabilities with affordable health care they can count on. It protects beneficiaries and their families against health expenses that could drive them into bankruptcy or worse—force them to forego medical treatment they need to survive. Because of its concentrated purchasing power, Medicare controls costs better than private insurance companies. While Medicare’s costs per person increased by about 4.7 …
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Members of @Healthcarefor99 and single-payer healthcare activists on 14th Street and First Ave. #NYC
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