I work in the home health care industry. You want to talk about legal ways of scamming the US out of $100's of millions of dollars legally. The owners of these mega home care corporations urge its account managers to lie, cheat and twist every oppurtunity to bilk the medicare and medicaid system out of money. They figure they can months and months amasing $10's of millions at a time and bet in the off chance on an over burdened under paid system wont check to thuroughly on them. They owner of the baltimore ravens Owns a mega medicaid company, just one office I worked in for him billed over $170,000 a week to the medicaide system. They didnt care what kind of services were given to the client as long as they had that prior authorization. Could you imagine billing the government a $170,000 a week times it by 200-2500 offices? Now about %25-%40 of that was illegally obtained. Heres the kicker. The state I am in is an at will state and they just passed a vote to have a "work free" environment which means basically no unions. Our lovely government politicians passed a bill 20 some years ago saying that house keepers and maids do not have to be paid over time do to them being a live in arrangment. Well they concider Home health aides to be maids because they do run errands and clean up houses under the medicaid waver plan. So this company will force its home health aides to work 50-60 hours a week without over timje pay and no benefits. If they argue or fight back the people who schedule them then drop thier case load and hours giving it to someone else who is new and wont bitch. The "recruiters" philosophy was "A home health aide is only good for 6 months, then start looking for her replacement". It is unreal what has happened. If you say "hay lets cut medicaid and medicare, well guess what, these low income poorly educated women have just lost a job.
Greed has destroyed this country, it has created a monster in wall street and on main street. It has made companies not be loyal to the worker any more, the only thing it is loyal to is the bottom line and its IPO. The CEO of a mega hospital company that owns several hospitals in my city had a bonus of $18 million last year. This is a hospital service mind you where a nurse makes only $20 an hour in my city. So the nurse who runs non stop dealing with sick individuals and thier families who have a hostility to you becaus eone thier loved one is sick, 2 they do not understand what is going on, 3 are mad because this hospital stay is over $1000 a day. That $18 million could have paid for 1-2 extra nurses per shift in everyone of his companies hopsitals increasing the saftey of the patients, the stress of the nurse and the over all quality of care.
So any of you who say greed is good, I am so gonna laugh at your ass when your sitting in your own shit in a hospital bed and its been 30 minutes since you hit the call bell and no one has come.
Yes Iceman, you are a dumbass to think greed is good. I dont usually point people out but you have no fucking clue on gods green earth and you are one of the millions who are too stupid to realise you are ruining your own quality of care, merchandise or other services.
