IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free... The offer is
true. Mort Zuckermann , US
IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free...
What if I told you that the Chairman and CEO of IBM, Samuel J.
Palmisano, approached President Obama and members of his administration 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 and one that was 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? Well, it's all true.
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. Mr. Palmisano is quoted as saying
during a taping of The Wall Street Journal's Viewpoints program on
September 14, 2010:
"We could have improved the quality and reduced the cost of
the healthcare system by $900 billion...I said we would do it for free to prove
that it works. They turned us 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 And when Palmisano went to the White
House and made that proposal, it was based upon a lot of work and it was not
accepted. And 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.
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