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What else you should know is.... that despite the success of the matter in this article, there are efforts in motion to CLOSE the Concord NH investigative office and leave us UNPROTECTED from these scam artists!!!

This matter revolves around a situation, that was a quick Associated Press blip from last week, that people don’t seem to have picked up on, or, understand the importance of. See Article -> http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI...

A PDF of the letter from Hodes to Sibelius is available for download at http://www.filedropper.com/5192009hhsofficeofth...

To date, I’ve seen only ONE followup -> http://www.topix.com/forum/city/concord-nh/TSSG...

Reader’s Digest version of what’s going on:

( I must preface the following by saying that this is OPINION only, not statements of fact, thus, cutting off opportunity for any downline recourse, however, with minimal digging through YOUR resources, I believe you will come to the same opinions, and, possibly, find the facts. )

As you know, political parties engage in dirty tricks, and fouling of wells upon exit, so as to sabotage the opposition, so they may engage in finger pointing at the next electoral opportunity and, regain their dominant position.

Post election, but, prior to the new administration being sworn in, knowing that public health and oversight were to be priorities, the outgoing administration crafted a sabotage scenario, crippling HHS / OIG oversight in NH as well as several other states, gutting the efficacy of upcoming healthcare reforms.

Most people don’t understand the HUGE amount of public funds consumed by waste, error and outright fraud. Last year alone, over 20 BILLION dollars was recovered by HHS / OIG from investigations of abuse and fraud. .. Little things like a Podiatrist billing Medicare for a surgical procedure, when in fact, an assistant simply provided a pedicure to a patient. This misbill repeated hundreds of times over in this one office alone. The single physician, who magically claims to have been able to see over 100 patients in a day, and bills insurances accordingly. The Nigerian teams of home health care and durable medical equipment scam artists, now relocating to NH from Texas and other heavily scrutinized HHS / OIG venues upon hearing of the impending oversight void, billing Medicare and other insurances for goods and services never delivered.

The EXCUSE given for the closure is to save $$ .. hmm .. The NH office is and has been HEAVILY cash flow positive for years, .. returning almost $10 in recovered funds, for every $1 spent on investigation, facilities and salary. .. By that logic, all the $$ we “waste” in commuting costs to and from the office could be saved by simply not working any more … Yup, that’ll serve us well in the long term.

The claim that NH, VT and Maine investigative matters could be handled by the already overworked Boston office, itself facing a reduction order of Full Time Employees, might be accepted as a valid approach by some, so long as one forgets about the travel time and costs wasted, hauling agents up from Boston and, providing per diems and short term lodging costs, to conduct interviews, searches and perform surveillance in places like Nashua, Concord, North Conway etc … Sound logic .. for non-thinkers.

One last little monetary detail .. the new administration has set aside, and is DELIVERING $300 MILLION dollars Specifically to HHS / OIG so as to EXPAND oversight and investigation to curtail waste, eliminate fraud and RECOVER $$ from and prosecute offenders. OIG is, with the exception of the NASA division, cash flow positive, HHS / OIG particularly so. Shutting down a POSITIVE CASH FLOW source, does not appear to be in the best interest of the public.

The Attorney General’s office should be drafting a letter shortly strongly supporting the need for the NH office of HHS / OIG to remain open, unless HHS Upper admin is successful in dissuading them from doing so.

Sibelius will be in New England this coming week.

It would be an EXCELLENT time to bring this matter before the NH people, and suggest that they contact their representatives, voicing their opinions as to whether we wish to be a pocket of abuse, waste and criminal fraud, w/o personnel to keep our medical costs down by preventing such things, or, intelligent, forward thinking, rational people.

Thank you for taking the time to wade through all this .. I hope you find this worthy of pursuit, and, hope to read of it further in your pages.

Just Do It!!!!!!!!!! That was a good mix. lol :)

hahahah That was cute. :)

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Glad someone else noticed that too <G>

Yup,

Half the "blogosphere" should just get a life. The same half should also stop telling the rest of us how to live ours.

:o)

Then some people don't even care what the TOS say, because they believe "If you don't have a facebook account you don't exist".

They feel that they need to be a part of "The business model".

Then they feel that they are a special case, and that for whatever reason, the TOS doesn't apply to them.

I wonder if facebook have a good backup regime, since data is their business.

"Run as many deletion scripts as you want funny man, all your data is still belong to us muahhaahaaa"

Also, if Scoble decided he wanted to delete all of "his" "personal" "data" from other places, in violation of their TOS, say the IRS or DMV, would he still be considered a tech champion, exposing the crooks who hold our data?

I think not.

:o)

This is interesting, and is kind of inline with some thoughts I had the other day. Might chat about it sometime over the weekend.

Cheers

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People are going to criticise for one reason or another, and it really doesn't matter much what your motivations are at the end of the day.

If you feel good because you felt you helped then good for you. The real test IMO is whether in your heart you would be happy to go down to a shelter somewhere, when a) it's not Christmas, and b) there were no 'influencers' to network with, just ordinary unsung heroes doing their damndest to make a difference and often doubting whether they might be, but turning up anyway.

Perhaps if y'all weren't so busy networking you might have sorted 45k lbs of food?

Good luck, I'm looking forward to more posts from the trenches.

About time the Mac weenies caught up.

http://www.archive.org/details/tucows_293514_Pr...

Here is the actual resolution: kucinich.house.gov