Reply #6: Because of monsters like these people [View All]

[ThomCat]

Politicians are in an uproar, creating a consensus that Medicare is bloated, and needs to be "reformed." Which means, cut, cut, cut, and cut some more.

You know damned well that when they send their investigators in there looking for medical billing fraud it's not going to be the corporations they are going to concentrate on. Corporations have lawyers, and fight back.

They are going to scour and scrutinize every possible medical bill that comes in from Individuals.

It is going to be seniors, and people with disabilities, like me, who depend on Medicare who will be audited again and again and again because corporations keep finding ways to cheat the system out of hundreds of millions of dollars through fraud.

Both of the insurance companies I have to deal with already send nurse practitioners once a year (each)to my house, trained to detect whether or not a client is truly disabled and truly has the medical conditions their file indicates they have. They're paranoid that somehow a client may have miraculously become cured of a disability and didn't tell them.

Of course, they're sending her to interview me "for my convenience" because perhaps after I spend those two hours explaining to her everything she should already know from reading my medical records "she can discuss your needs with your doctors to ensure that you are receiving the care and services you need." As if my doctors don't already know exactly what care and services I need? :eyes:

The fraud paranoia is already out there, and it's not aimed at corporations. It's targeting people with disabilities first. But it's going to spread to seniors next. Just watch.

It's annoying having their snoops sent into my home twice a year. It's insulting that they lie to me about it and claim that they're doing it to help me. I really hate insurance companies. x(