IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free...

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IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free...

What if someone told you that the Chairman and CEO of IBM, Samuel J. Palmisano, approached President Obama and members of his, before the healthcare bill debates, with a plan that would reduce healthcare expenditures by $900 billion? Given the Obama Administration's adamancy that the United States of America simply had to make healthcare (read: health insurance) affordable for even the most dedicated welfare recipient, one would think he would have leaned forward in his chair, cupped his ear and said, "Tell me more!"

And what if someone told you that the cost to the federal government for this program was nothing, zip, nada, zilch? And, what if I told you that, in the end and after two meetings, President Obama and his team, instead of embracing a program that was proven to save money -- projected to save almost one trillion dollars - a private sector program costing the taxpayers nothing, zip, nada, zilch - said, "Thanks but no thanks" and then embarked on passing one of the most despised pieces of legislation in US history?


Well, it's all apparently true.

Samuel J. Palmisano, the Chairman of the Board and CEO for IBM, said in a recent Wall Street Journal interview that he offered to provide the Obama Administration with a program that would curb healthcare claims fraud and abuse by almost one trillion dollars but the Obama White House turned the offer down.

Mr. Palmisano is quoted as saying during a taping of The Wall Street Journal's Viewpoints program on September 14, 2010: "We could have improved the quality and reduced the cost of the healthcare system by $900 billion...I said we would do it for free to prove that it works. They turned us down."

A second meeting between Mr. Palmisano and the Obama Administration took place two weeks later, with no change in the Obama Administration's stance. A call placed to IBM on October 8, 2010, by FOX News confirmed, via a spokesperson, that Mr. Palmisano stands by his statement.

Speaking with FOX News' Stuart Varney, Mort Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief of US News & World Report, said, "It's a little bit puzzling because I think there is a huge amount of both fraud and inefficiency that American business is a lot more comfortable with and more effective in trying to reduce. And this is certainly true because the IBM people have studied this very carefully. When Palmisano went to the White House and made that proposal, it was based upon a lot of work and it was not accepted. It's really puzzling...These are very, very responsible people and don't have a political ax to grind.

In Mr. Obama's shunning of a private sector program that would have saved our country almost $1 trillion in healthcare expenditures, presented to him as he declared a "crisis in healthcare," he proves two things beyond any doubt: that he is anti-Capitalist and anti-private sector in nature and that he can no longer be trusted to tell the truth in both his political declarations or espoused goals.

For more info. check these links:


http://capitolhillcoffeehouse.com/index.php/article/574 < http://capitolhillcoffeehouse.com/index.php/article/574

http://reimagineamerica.org/tag/sam-palmisano/ < http://reimagineamerica.org/tag/sam-palmisano/

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/bel ... a-turned-h

Outdoor:

I posted this two weeks ago.

sorry..just got it in a e-mail..I can take it down if you would like?

Did you post this follow-up three weeks ago?

http://www.phillyburbs.com/blogs/workin ... 2bc8b.html

Not necessary that you take it down as far as I'm concerned. Just was telling you.

Who knew that Kresspin would respond? You could hear the surprise in my voice!!

This IS a discussion board, is it not?

Are you so dense that you don't think people will respond? Or should only your wacko friends be allowed to respond?

It is just a big sales pitch, IBM would prove they could save $x and once they proved it they would pick it and take it home or charge a 30% fee on what they saved.

I hope no is naive enough to believe IBM would set up this program and run it for the next 20 years for free. Latching IBM's service business onto the Medicare nipple would be great for IBM shareholders for the next 30+ years.