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Yes. Elections have consequences and this is the consequence of voting as you did in 2008 and 2012! Putting the final nails in the coffin of Medicare and Medicaid, as well as all other public healthcare programs! 1. pnhp.org/news/2010/november/privatizing-medicaid-is-wrong-way-to-go 2. ***With UnitedHealth Optum Groups executive vice president named principal deputy administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (the agency that oversees #ACA), the Democrats (who unanimously voted for #ACA) have indicated that not only are we never getting Single Payer, but that Medicare and Medicaid will be public programs in name (and taxpayer funding) only.*** U.S. Hires UnitedHealth’s Slavitt to Lead Obamacare Effort The UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH) executive whose Optum division helped states and the federal government fix Obamacare health exchanges will become second-in-command at the agency that runs the U.S. program. Andy Slavitt, Optum’s group executive vice president, was named principal deputy administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. officials said. The company he comes from, UnitedHealth, is the nation’s largest health insurer. In his new job, Slavitt will have broad responsibility for all of CMS’s operations, including Affordable Care Act programs, Medicare, the program for the elderly and disabled, and Medicaid, the program for low-income people. He will report to the agency’s administrator, Marilyn Tavenner. *** Optum was previously called Ingenix... In a year when health insurers were cast as the villain in Democrats’ reform narrative, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo takes down the Ingenix databases used widely by health plans and alleged by Cuomo and the American Medical Association to be the linchpin of a system rigged to underpay claims for out-of-network care. Ingenix parent UnitedHealth Group agrees to pull the plug on the products and pay $350 million to settle a related class-action lawsuit brought by the AMA and other plaintiffs. modernhealthcare/.../20091221/NEWS/912189988 *** bloomberg/news/2014-06-20/u-s-hires-unitedhealth-s-slavitt-to-lead-obamacare-effort.html
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 19:22:30 +0000

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