LOL, Obama on profit and overhead.

Obama claims to be funding ObamaCare via slashing corruption from Medicare/Medicaid.

Y’all really must visit RedState because Erick Erickson has the goods on Obama’s new tool.

Nancy-Ann DeParle’s corporate scandal taint.

In touting DeParle’s accomplishments when he appointed her in March, Obama didn’t mention the lucrative private-sector career she built since September 2000, when she left her government job running Medicare for the Clinton administration. Records show she earned more than $6.6 million since early 2001, according to a tally by the Investigative Reporting Workshop.

And the public wasn’t told that much of that corporate career was built at companies that have frequently had to defend themselves against federal investigations. After leaving government, DeParle accepted director positions at half a dozen companies suspected of violating the very laws and regulations she had enforced for Medicare. Those companies got into further trouble on her watch as a director. Now she’s back in government as a leading voice in deciding the shape of health care reform. As director of the White House Office of Health Reform, DeParle is the point person in pushing for the administration’s plans for changing health care and the ways Americans pay for it — changes in which her former companies have a great deal at stake.

Pot. Meet Kettle.

That’s right folks. The White House is attacking Rick Scott for his leadership at Columbia/HCA while at the same time naming Nancy-Ann DeParle as health policy czar. And DeParle left government to go work for companies committing the waste, fraud, and abuse of the Medicare system DeParle never did anything about.

What’s worse is that the companies DeParle worked for got into more trouble once she started working for them.

Five of the corporations whose boards DeParle served on have paid a total of $566 million since 2003 to settle fraud or product liability cases, often involving tax dollars paid by Medicare.

Four signed “corporate integrity agreements” in which they promised to tighten oversight of their billing practices in exchange for the government agreeing not to take legal action to kick them out of the Medicare program.

If the President is going to really pay for most of his health care plan by eliminating the waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicare system, why would he appoint DeParle to oversee it? One could argue it is like hiring a burglar to burglar proof a house, except DeParle was on the inside turning a blind eye before leaving government and signing up with the burglars.

maverick muse on September 16, 2009 at 9:01 AM