Comments for Medicaid outsourcing falls largely in Jindal’s lap at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 12 out of 12 comments http://www.theind.com Fri, 24 May 2013 14:19:18 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8899-medicaid-outsourcing-falls-largely-in-jindals-lap#comment-21582 [R]agin_cajun: We have another personal act in common. My mom owns AT&T shares as well. This has been in our family's portfolio for more than 50 years. Health services should never be subjected to private corporate interests. This is why we have an extremely poor health delivery system in this country. 20% of Louisianians do not even have health insurance. That is an aweful lot of people floating around here without access to competent health care. Businesses stealing tax money for incompetent health care (they work for Wall Street) to our people should be a crime. As the quality of our healthcare system deteriorates even further, more and more of our vulnerable population will simply die or commit suicide. Prison systems, education systems and healthcare systems should be subject to professional governmental systems. We simply waste too much money with poor outcomes, when we pretend that private corporate enterprises are even competent in these matters. It is a conflict of interests! Making profits and delivering competent needed services is, indeed, an oxymoron [Greek, "sharp vs. dull"]. Of course, these silly healthcare corporations will spend tax revenue (which they receive to run their business scam) to promote delightful ads on our television as to what a wonderful job they are doing! P.S. I learned about that 20% figure from the recent Free Health Clinic in New Orleans last Monday on a national news program. I suspect it is actually even worse. - Gaius Cilnius Maecenas Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:15:17 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8899-medicaid-outsourcing-falls-largely-in-jindals-lap#comment-21451 "Thats right the lazy ass shareholders who do f-ing nothing but sit on their ass and collect a check." Nice job moderating these comments, editors. Those shareholders, along with the lazy ass bondholders, are the people who finance the operations of a business. Those shareholders have produced wealth in excess of what they have consumed, and have invested that excess wealth in a company. Those lazy ass shareholders are the owners of the company. I AM worried about them. My mom owns shares in ATT. My kids' college fund is invested in Verizon. I'm not rich and I don't play golf all day. "I think CEOs who send our jobs overseas should have their citizenship revoked and their asses kicked out of this country. " I think socialist/populist union leaders who support radical left politicians with members' dues should have their citizenship revoked and be kicked out the country. "If a business can't take care of their employees then they have failed " No. A business does not exist to "take care of employees". That's what mommies are for. Businesses exist to make a profit. If they can't do THAT, they should not be in business. I'm glad you're not running my company. - ragin_cajun Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:20:50 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8899-medicaid-outsourcing-falls-largely-in-jindals-lap#comment-21437 "Unions... have made those businesses MUCH less profitable. As a consequence, corporations have moved those operations overseas where labor is cheaper." And there is the heart of the problem. Yes, less profitable, to who? Thats right the lazy ass shareholders who do f-ing nothing but sit on their ass and collect a check. That's who you are worried about? Really? F the shareholders. A companies first priority should be to the people who DO THE WORK, Not the rich scumbags who play golf all day. And so the solution is what? Send the jobs overseas. Honestly I think CEOs who send our jobs overseas should have their citizenship revoked and their asses kicked out of this country. But obviously you are totally cool with shipping our jobs overseas because shareholders are more important that workers. Right RC? If a business can't take care of their employees then they have failed and should not be in business. Period. - resident Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:31:49 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8899-medicaid-outsourcing-falls-largely-in-jindals-lap#comment-21432 " Unions make Manufacturers PAY THEIR EMPLOYEES TOO MUCH and so they can't make a profit. Really? That's the argument? " Yes. It is. Can you break it? I don't think there's any doubt that unions driving up wages in the auto, aerospace, chemical, textile industries have made those businesses MUCH less profitable. As a consequence, corporations have moved those operations overseas where labor is cheaper. Also, I think you are seriously misinformed about just what unions in these industries demand. Health insurance? They expect much more than that in the auto industry, for example. Auto unions demand pensions, annual pay increases, job banks, they approve or disapprove layoffs instead of management, they have benefits people in Louisiana have never heard of--being from a right to work state. I had 2 college professor, one retired from Ford the other worked there for 10-12 years, who would occassionally wow their clases with all the things that auto unions provide for their membership. Health insurance? No auto union would be satisfied with wages, health insurance, and safe working conditions in this day and age. - ragin_cajun Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:41:20 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8899-medicaid-outsourcing-falls-largely-in-jindals-lap#comment-21386 "I am surprise the savings is not more. You do know that "government worker" is an oxymoron." Yea, that's because you don't know what the hell you are talking about. Typical case of the brainwashed fox news junkie. I'm surprised you know what the word oxymoron means. Sorry but you are just wrong. Sure you can find stories of people who were grateful to be moved out of a full time care facility and into their homes. But you're not looking at the whole picture. They are saving money by forcing people out of nursing facilities and into their homes. That may be fine for some, but you'll soon be finding out that great grandma just got evicted from the nursing home and will now be staying, well...at your place. Oh and then next they won't be paying for that full time nurse it will be part time and then very part time, and then not at all. You people just don't get it. Corporations and private businesses have ONE goal. MAKE MORE MONEY. They will do it any way they can and sacrifice anyone and anything in their way. Sure it sounds great at first, "saving tax payers money." But then they will start figuring out where to cut corners. And they will cut and cut and cut until it gets SO FREAKING HORRIBLE that people will freak out and the government will have to step in and change the rules because the corporations have figured out how to get every penny they can in profits. And the patients are suffering and dying because of it. I suppose you think these governmental agencies just suddenly appeared for no reason. The reason they are there is because corporations and private businesses have a DOCUMENTED HISTORY of screwing their customers and their employees and the government. It's really sad to see so many people have been brainwashed by big business into thinking it's "The People" Vs. "The Government". Too dumb to realize that "The People" IS "The Government" and it's "WE THE PEOPLE" vs. BIG BUSINESS. Likewise you've been brainwashed into thinking Unions are Evil. And what is that argument? Oh yea, Unions make Manufacturers PAY THEIR EMPLOYEES TOO MUCH and so they can't make a profit. Really? That's the argument? That's why the US Auto industry took a dive huh? No it wasn't the executives who demanded cheaper parts, and cars that would fall apart in 5 years so they could sell more cars. No of course not. It was the employees demanding too much money and demanding, oh my god, health insurance. How greedy of them. You people are such suckers. - resident Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:28:06 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8899-medicaid-outsourcing-falls-largely-in-jindals-lap#comment-21370 Our Medicaid program is administered so poorly, #50 in the nation, that priviate companies can easily manage the Medicaid population using sophisticated tools that identify fraud, identify the unhealthy populations so that they can be moved into programs that improve their health, and offer operational efficiencies that allow them to still make a profit. If you research the states that were savy enough to move from the status quo, you can see that quality has improved and costs have decreased. Just saying... - Buck Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:49:12 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8899-medicaid-outsourcing-falls-largely-in-jindals-lap#comment-21359 by resident "so you're saying that private insurance companies can take on all of these cases, save $135 million dollars on top of what it already costs to run this, and THEN they are going to make a profit on top of that? ------------------- I am surprise the savings is not more. You do know that "government worker" is an oxymoron. - William Morvant Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:55:57 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8899-medicaid-outsourcing-falls-largely-in-jindals-lap#comment-21356 WE may be a bunch of idiot couillions responsible for electing this cash greedy hog Jindal , but "PRESIDENT, c'mon there are not that many red blooded Americans on this earth, who are stupid enough to elect this self & crony serving politician to the highest office in the United States with a clear path to all the chikees in the hen house, as I said, the entire nation is not stupid, at least not stupid twice in succession...... - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:42:31 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8899-medicaid-outsourcing-falls-largely-in-jindals-lap#comment-21340 this is WAY too fat a cash cow for the govna NOT to share with his buddies, and besides, it might give him the support for his presidential race... You can bet this will fall on the backs of the employees or the taxpayers when it goes bust. - BoFred Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:09:00 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8899-medicaid-outsourcing-falls-largely-in-jindals-lap#comment-21338 So Michot lied to McPherson? - the original northsidian Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:05:44 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8899-medicaid-outsourcing-falls-largely-in-jindals-lap#comment-21326 Oh ok, so you're saying that private insurance companies can take on all of these cases, save $135 million dollars on top of what it already costs to run this, and THEN they are going to make a profit on top of that? And what do you think is going to give? Where do you think the savings is going to come from? I'll tell you: they will cut everything they can out of those policies, they won't be worth they paper they are written on. So yea, great, you'll save some taxes, and some kid is going to die because they are not "worth" it to the insurance company. - resident Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:27:06 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8899-medicaid-outsourcing-falls-largely-in-jindals-lap#comment-21321 So much for Michot's assurances... - clint reno Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:51:33 +0100