Marilyn Tavenner: Insurance Industry Strong Despite Exchange Turbulence

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

fiercehealthcare
by Evan Sweeney | Aug 11, 2016 11:23pm

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/marilyn-tavenner-insurance-industry-strong-despite-exchange-turbulence

And here's Marilyn Tavenner's credibility:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/11/obamas_problematic_new_nominee_for_top_medicaremedicaid_post.html

"Prior to her tenure as Virginia's HHS Secretary, Ms. Tavenner worked for the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), founded by former Senator Bill Frist's father.  Her career spanned 25 years, from nurse manager to president of Outpatient Services Group.

Tavenner's private-sector experience has already proved controversial for some in the health care field.  In April 2011, Suzanne Gordon, editor of the "Culture and Politics of Health Care Work" series at Cornell University Press, sized up the potential CMS director for the Boston Globe, citing her affiliation with HCA.

While Tavenner worked for HCA, the company was busily enhancing its profit margin by defrauding the Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE systems. In 2000, for example, HCA paid fines of $840 million for improperly billing the government and in 2003 HCA had to fork over another $631 million.

Although Tavenner may not have been personally involved in these scandals, it hardly seems wise to put her in charge of the government system her company helped defraud. The job of CMS administrator is to protect patient safety and quality, something that federal officials with close ties to the industries they are supposedly regulating and monitoring seem to have a hard time doing."

[Timber Rattler]

I remember Taverner from congressional hearings last year over the IT meltdown.  She's a moron.

[dfwgator]

The whole point of ObamaCare is to break the system to the point where people demand Single-Payer.

But Chief Judas Roberts thought he was too clever.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

The whole point of ObamaCare is to break the system to the point where people demand Single-Payer.

But Chief Judas Roberts thought he was too clever.

Obama wouldn't have appointed her otherwise.

Here's a few CMS highlights. Your money hard at work.

Medicare Fraud Detection System Disappoints. (from Feb 2012)
http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/healthcare/medicare-fraud-detection-system-disappoints

"To date, the $77 million computer system, which went online in mid-2011, had prevented exactly one bad claim by late last year. That totaled $7,591."

Key Obamacare Officials Deleted Emails Sought by House Oversight Committee.
http://www.weaselzippers.us/195763-unreal-key-obamacare-official-deleted-emails-being-sought-by-house-oversight-committee/

Obamacare Employee (CMS Tavenner) Caught Telling Employee To Delete Emails
http://www.weaselzippers.us/196579-obamacare-official-caught-telling-employee-to-delete-emails/


Hatch, Grassley: Obama Admin Needs To Explain Unresolved Conflicts Of Interest At CMS
http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/31/hatch-grassley-obama-admin-needs-to-explain-unresolved-conflicts-of-interest-at-cms/?utm_campaign=546ce0001efc506c1d00b45a&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiJhZDg3OTFkMC1iZDljLTQ3M2UtOWZhYS1mMmMyOTM2MGQwMzIifQ%3D%3D

1 Year, CMS Blows $60 Milion on Navigators
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/208852-obamacare-2015-cms-to-spend-60m-on-navigators?utm

CMS Spent More Than $1 Trillion In Less Than 1 Year
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/cms-spent-more-1t-less-1-yr-more-entire-gov-t-spent-when-medicaid

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Just in case you missed it;

Another of 'The One's' Minions.

Former FDA Chief Margaret Hamburg Named In Massive Conspiracy and Racketeering Lawsuit.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/21/suit-alleges-former-fda-chief-suppressed-danger-of-deadly-drug-for-sake-of-profit/