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On Real America, with Abe Sauer: If You Don't Support Health Care Reform, You Don't Support the Troops

What was not mentioned about the SGR is fraud. Fraud was a variable that was omitted from the original construction of the formula.

If you take notice, those in strong opposition to any type of health care reform are, in some shape or form, are directly connected to the industry of fraud, the largest industry of fraud being in child welfare.

Child welfare is not limited to foster care and adoption, it is also in the Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Due to Freedom of Information Act exclusions and exemptions, statutory protections of the child welfare industry nurture the flourishing of fraud, with Medicaid fraud being the largest portion of unregulated funding.

Medicaid, in child welfare, funds Targeted Case Management, a non-medical portion of child welfare. Reviewing just a sample of the States federally documented estimates of fraud, the numbers could easily surpass the SGR formula of debt, "more than $200 billion, annually.

There are provisions contained in the Health reform bill that address the aggressive approach to ending Medicaid, Medicare and Tricare fraud, which is the creation of a new industry and jobs.

Most of the job creation will be around information technology and progressive agendas on the way we provide care by moving away from institutionalization (i.e. hospitals).

The political factions choosing to promulgate their fallacies against health care reform should be viewed in a positive light as they demonstrate the need to be led, by the hand, out of a 17th century mentality of human worth, to the 21st century of ethics, starting with information technology to end fraud.

Beverly Tran

Posted on January 27, 2010 at 9:06 am 0