| How to make healthcare
affordable |
Allow recipients to shop
for best price, just they do in "real
life". Set up an online Medicare
purchasing account for each person -
similar to how one has online access to
their bank account. This account will
show each debit for medication, medical
equipment, and services.
Reward shopping for best price with a
feedback system
When you buy a medication or service a
software program looks up the costs paid
in your region of the country - from
high to low. If you paid more than
average your online medical account
shows what price you could have
achieved. If you consistently buy at
cost saving prices, then gold stars, happy
faces, or waving American Flags
(whatever) appear with small "Thank
you!" notes.
But, when you pay too much
you receive a notice like the tongue in
cheek one I made up below. The rip-off
cost is not make up - it is real. This
serves as a perfect example of how a
simple $2 or $3 medication (actual
wholesale cost) is invoiced to Medicare
at $167. Multiplied by thousands of
overcharges per week, month after month
and you see why Medicare is dragging
down the United States with billions of
dollars in excessive prices. |
| Example of online
medical account feedback system |
WHOPPING EXCESSIVE CHARGE! |
| (above) actual invoiced cost
to Medicare. Not a joke. The
author has the original
documentation. March, 2009 |
|
Dear Medicare recipient,
Are you aware that your government rip-off provider
invoiced $166.79 for 90 zolpidem
tartrate? This is
very bad. That price is 1,688% higher than
the same generic medication purchased at
retail from Costco ($9.33).
The taxpayers of the United
States cannot afford such an
extreme overcharge. Actual
wholesale cost of the generic
drug is but a few dollars. If
Costco can make a profit selling
it at $10 then your provider is
deliberately ripping off the
Medicare system with their $167
invoice.
Please cease doing business with
this vendor.
How you can help effect
permanent change
May we suggest that you mail a
letter of protest to your
provider? We do not recommend
wasting time calling them as you
will only speak to some high
school drop out paid minimum
wage at an outsourced phone
service. Mail a letter instead.
Demand that they cease these
overcharges in writing. If you
can find a fax number, also fax
it to them. Also send your
letter to them by email.
Continue to do so until a
representative of your rip-off
provider replies in writing, on
actual company letterhead issued
by a titled individual who has a
first and last name, etc. Do not
be placated with a phone call
from an untitled first name only
person as these are only
intended to make you feel better
without the company actually
doing anything about the matter.
If the rip-off provider will not
reply in writing on company
letterhead, sent USPS, then
ignore any attempts to reach you
by phone. If you speak with a so
called "representative" tell
them they are ripping off the
government and that you are
disgusted by their greed. Then
hang up. |
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| The rip-off in a nutshell |
Medicare invoiced $167
Costco sells this for
$9.33
Drugstore.com sells this for
$46
Rite-Aid sells this for
$69
Legal drugs are more
profitable than illicit ones
Imagine what the
actual wholesale cost is. A
few dollars. Really. Maybe
$2 or $3 worth of the chemical.
Think this through: 10mg dose
means 100 doses per gram.
100,000 pills per kilo. In the
laboratory it is just as easy to
make a 1 kilogram batch as a 2
or 3 kilogram batch. Its just
chemistry. Like making
methamphetamine, ecstasy, or
synthetic heroin (fentanyl)
At the $167/90 price invoiced to
Medicare you are paying $1.86
per 10mg pill. That is $185,556 per
kilo. WOW! That makes
cocaine, methamphetamine and
heroin dirt cheap by comparison. |
You paid too much!
Your price is 1,688% higher than the
same generic medication purchased at
retail from Costco.
And 263% higher than the same
generic medication purchased at retail
from Drugstore.com.
Please do not continue to purchase from
the provider who invoiced $167 to
Medicare because such rip-offs adversely
affect the taxpayers of America.
Keeping healthcare affordable for
everyone requires your assistance to
police these medical provider pigs who
have the nerve to invoice 1,688% more
than retail.
Thank you for helping American give the
boot to the medical supply rip-off pigs.
Sincerely,
The US Surgeon General |
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