Ouch, HIPPA Just a Little Pain?

By F. Straus

The socialization of American Medicine since 1996 under HIPPA has now forced the well-known, Walk In Medical Clinics and the Old Fashion Family Doctor out of American Medicine.

Instead Americans from all walks of life are being forced to either work at any job just to obtain the lowest quality of Health Care Services available thorough the so called (HMO’s) Health Maintenance Organization’s. The HMO’s are slow to make payment to independent solo doctors forcing them out of business. Some states have even imposed penalties on all their citizens requiring them to have Health Insurance or face stiff financial penalties. This violates our Constitutional rights as individuals.

The current example is the state of Massachusetts. This has been done with no regard to the many aging baby boomers who have spent years acquiring assets, not necessarily in cash. These assets will be used against Americans forcing them to sell off their property to pay for a Health Insurance Policy they do not want, force the chronically ill without Medicare to go back to work when they are no longer employable or face liquidation to qualify for Medicaid. THIS TYPE OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE DOES NOT BELONG IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. For examples of the poor quality of care one only has to look at Health Care Rationing (Rationing: to be used sparingly) in Europe.

The number of uninsured Americans - 46 Million Americans continue to increase as more doctors retire from medicine. The socialization of AMERICAN MEDICINE IS A FAILURE FOR ALL AMERICANS. That one to one special relationship between patient and doctor has now been replaced by HEALTH MILLS where each person is allocated a fifteen minute segment.

Gone is the process of insurance company competitive bidding replaced by HOSPITAL/INSTITUIONALIZED MEDICINE and Community Rating Pools which have increased the overall cost of health care nationwide.

As the rich get richer, the poor and now middle class Americans have no clear advantage in regard to obtaining reasonable Health Care Services in the United States of America.

Instead of going to your local family doctor more and more Americans are being forced into Hospital Emergency Rooms for ordinary health care services. Americans without any Insurance are forced into insolvency as Big Brother has become our new Gatekeeper to ordianary Medical Care.

WHO PROFITS?

The huge conglomerates that own all the hospitals in any one geographical area have now turned into “FOR PROFIT” institutions. Additionally; the local state governments are behaving in an unethical manner by turning a blind eye to MEDICAID FRAUD.

MEDICAID, originally created in 1965 by President L.B. Johnson, was intended to provide care for men, women and children who qualify as poor. As the years went by, MEDICAID IN THE UNITED STATES LOST ALL OF THE SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES REQUIRED UNDER THE POLITICAL DOCTRINE OF THE SEPARATION OF POWERS.

The perfect case that we found was of a deceased child named Suzanne Schwartz whose father (worth in excess of $100,000 Million Dollars) with the help of any expert doctor, had created two Medicaid accounts for this child. One account served to funnel the money back into the provider institutions to HELP keep them solvent and other to act as a dummy account.

With no FEDERAL REGULATORY OVERSIGHT providers throughout America used this system to replace HOME HEALTH CARE SERVICES with THE WAREHOUSING OF AMERICANS.

WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR FEDERAL REGULATORY OVERSIGHT PROGRAM?

The Department of Health and Human Services created a government oversight office within their own organization called “THE INSPECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE”. The organizations (OIG) primary mission was to investigate Medicaid Fraud by providers and institutions.

THE FLAW IN THE SYSTEM

The flaw in the system is now flagrant. If a person submits a Medicaid Fraud Report to the local State Medicaid INSPECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE, it is ignored because the funds are being funneled back into their own state institutions.

If any individual files a similar complaint and submits that complaint to the Department of Health and Human Services INSPECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE in Washington, D.C.’s OIG Hotline; the complaint is sent back to the State Medicaid INSPECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE where the fraud originated. The moral of the story here is "Don't ask Foxes to Guard the Chicken Coop.

This system of INSTITUTIONAL MALFEASANCE has now been in place since the mid-1970’s. The estimated dollar loss to the American public is in the order of $600 Billion Dollars. Americans deserve to reclaim these misallocated funds and they MUST be returned to the American people. Balancing our national budget and addressing Deficit Reduction should be our National Goal for 2007! Only then will affordable, Health Care be available for all Americans.

SPEAK UP AMERICA !!

*