GAO: White House Violated Law on Medicare

[Flint-oid]

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration violated the law by allowing private insurers to limit choices of some patients in a small trial program of managed health care under Medicare, congressional investigators said.

Preferred provider organizations, which offer members a network of discounted health care providers, have enrolled 105,000 Medicare beneficiaries in 19 states.

In some cases, insurers refused to pay claims for home health visits, nursing care, dental work, routine physicals and other services obtained from providers who were not part of the PPO network, the Government Accountability Office said.

"By law, these plans should have been required to cover all services in their benefit packages even if those services were obtained from providers outside the plans' provider networks," GAO said.

The administration was wrong to waive the requirement, GAO said.

[Rose Siding]

1. WAY better headline! but the story's a dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x869557

[tom_paine]

2. THERE IS NO LAW IN IMPERIAL AMERIKA

At least, not for non-Imperials.

For low-level Imperials, occasionally perhaps might have to obey a law or two...lawlessness hasen't trickled down yet. Imperial Amerika is not FULLY transformed to 1940s Mississippi with the Busheviks as the KKK and the rest of us as Uppity Negroes.

When that happens, perhaps during the latter half of the reiogn of Emperor Jeb, it will be clear.

However, at the top, the same "law" applies to Busheviks as applied to Bolsheviks in Stalin's Russia.

No law. No law at all. I guarantee, NOTHING will come of this. If the Busheviks are even forced to make alterations, they will simply do it from another direction using Imperial Fiat.

The idea of Law applied to the Imperial Family is as absurd now as it was in 1776.

[Supersedeas]

3. * Bureaucrats breaking the law on behalf of private insurers, NO WAY

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x869557