No one asked me if it was OK to use my tax dollars to "bonus" hospitals for doing what they are supposed to do anyway. Since when do we monetarily incentivise what is only the moral, legal and proper thing to do? This is nuts. Isn't that what the threat of malpractice is supposed to promote? Isn't that why past families have walked away with millions due to poor care in the past? Now, tax dollars are going to supplement all that as well?

I stopped to help an old man change a tire on the side of the road last month. Do I have a cash bonus coming somewhere? Something tells me this is the beginnings of the core of the Obamalosi care ... throw money at the problem. It did wonders for education and it certainly hasn't affected our nation's financial balance sheet as our assets and revenue far out-weigh our liabilities and debts. Yep, this is going to be great!

It's better than what we've got now, tho. Due to "cost containment", general quality and training standards have gone downhill in the last decades. I've been working in hospitals for many years and have seen it happen. "Trained short and hired cheap" explains it pretty well. I've worked with great professionals and with very dangerous know-nothings who don't get fired and who directly impact patient care just as much as the good ones. The fewer procedures you have done, the safer you are.
If it takes bribes to entice hospitals to fix the situation, then good. You benefit too.

IBM OFFER REFUSED .....PLEASE READ

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What if I told you that the Chairman and CEO of IBM, Samuel J.
Palmisano, approached President Obama and members of his health
taskforce, before the healthcare bill debates, with a plan that would
reduce healthcare expenditures by $900 billion? Given the Obama
Administration's adamancy that the United States of America simply
had to make healthcare (read: health insurance) affordable for even
the most dedicated welfare recipient, one would think he would have leaned forward in his chair, cupped his ear and said, "Tell me more!"

And what if I told you that the cost to the federal government for
this program was nothing, zip, nada, zilch? And, what if I told you
that, in the end and after two meetings, President Obama and his team,
instead of embracing a program that was proven to save money --
projected to save almost one trillion dollars - a private sector program costing the taxpayers nothing, zip, nada, zilch - said, "Thanks but no thanks" and then embarked on passing one of the most despised pieces
of legislation in US history?

Samuel J. Palmisano, the Chairman of the Board and CEO for IBM,
said in a recent Wall Street Journal interview that he offered to provide
the Obama Administration with a program that would curb healthcare
claims fraud and abuse by almost one trillion dollars but the Obama
White House turned the offer down.

A second meeting between Mr. Palmisano and the Obama Administration took place two weeks later, with no change in the
Obama Administration's stance. A call placed to IBM on October 8,
2010, by FOX News confirmed, via a spokesperson, that Mr. Palmisano stands by his statement.

Speaking with FOX News' Stuart Varney, Mort Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief of US News & World Report, said, "It's a little bit puzzling because
I think there is a huge amount of both fraud and inefficiency that
American business is a lot more comfortable with and more effective in
trying to reduce. And this is certainly true because the IBM people
have studied this very carefully. When Palmisano went to the White
House and made that proposal, it was based upon a lot of work and it
was not accepted. It's really puzzling...These are very, very
responsible people and don't have a political ax to grind.

In Mr. Obama's shunning of a private sector program that would

have saved our country almost $1 trillion in healthcare expenditures,
presented to him as he declared a "crisis in healthcare," he proves
two things beyond any doubt: that he is anti-Capitalist and
anti-private sector in nature and that he can no longer be trusted to
tell the truth in both his political declarations or espoused goals.

To confirm the above information check on following three links:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/02/ibm-exec-offers-save-900-billion-health-care-costs-obama-turned-h