Only 64 cents of every dollar paid to Amerigroup (contractor responsible for large portion of the money budgeted for medical care in DC) was actually put towards health care in our Nation's Capital. The rest of it? It would appear that we decided to let the contractors responsible for distributing the money, keep the change.
I am not about to do the math for it. But doesn't it seem as though this "change" could go to help care for a lot of people who aren't getting the care they need? Or couldn't it go into improving our hospitals and first responders equipment?
Who's taking advantage of who? I am not at all saying that people don't systematically abuse welfair and medicare/medicaide... but this article highlights, in my mind, a bigger problem. The lack of accountability. The lack of good earnest people doing there job well enough that something like this couldn't go on. Unfortunately for us, no one in this country to speak of does anything to prove that they are accountable for their own actions... that goes from Paris Hilton all the way up to the Oval Office. It's a disgrace how careless and morally remiss our country has become.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/20/AR2007072001133.html
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the business of "healing" in america is competely fucked...i love it when bright eyes says "we will take all of the medicines, too expensive now to sell"...
Last week, I posted a list of countries with Universal Health Care (inspired by Micheal Moores Sicko) on www.projectkb.com
Cuba has arguably the best healthcare system in the world.
!Viva La Revolucion!
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