On February 23, 2011, Barbara Hollingsworth reported in the Washington Examiner that in 2010, the CEO of IBM offered the Obama administration a free software program that would have cut Medicare and Medicaid fraud by almost a trillion dollars, but he was turned down – twice.
“We could have improved the quality and reduced the cost of the health-care system by $900 billion,” IBM chairman and CEO Samuel Palmisano said during a Sept. 14, 2010 taping of the Wall Street Journal’s Viewpoints program. “I said we would do it for free to prove that it works. They turned us down.”
h/t to Dave G
What if the fraud was the only good thing about it, the only thing that worked in it? (It should be clear I don’t want to have anything to do with government-mandated healthcare.)
Did someone make a calculation as to how much of the fraud was by O’Bama voters?
Wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on unusable software is a good thing — as long as you wasted the money on friends!
http://youtu.be/rBzizWy5EPE
Ben Swann joins Sheila Zilinsky and Dr. Tim Ball on the Weekend Vigilante
http://youtu.be/xpOMHeEQ-84
captain kirk : fire them all ,new elections.
You think they would want to go after waste, fraud and abuse? Really? It wouldn’t allow them to do such useless things as my senator just sent me, something called the Data act.
IBM made a complete fiasco of a supposed – get this – contract price $6.2 Million upgrade to the Queensland Government’s Health Department payroll computer systems – payroll – nothing else.
After a disastrous series of programming errors where no-one was paid the correct salary – the majority of staff regularly received NO SALARY for pay periods – over several years the “upgrade” has cost the Queensland government in excess of $1.2 Billion.
You dodged a bullet declining that “upgrade” – believe me.
So many of the fraud cases that are announced are so obvious that the government clearly needs some kind of data analysis program to kick out the glaring examples to investigate. A few months ago, someone was saying that they can’t even use the Social Security death information to screen for charges for treatments after someone has died, or even claims by long dead doctors, or doctors who lost their license.