Gone Missing? The Politics Staff

Don't post an article from a previously unposted site. It and any others following won't get posted. No one is at the helm administering the site. The commercial psuedo blogs have taken over the Voices area making real blogs go unnoticed. They are now even spreading to the Forums. Some have been outright porn. Reporting them does no good, none are taken off the site. Is the site on the road to closing down? If someone doesn't start overseeing the site, it may be.

Support Judge Don Lowery For U.S. Senator

llinois is one of the states that can elect a Republican to replace a Democrat in the Senate. Don Lowery is a solid conservative and values the Constitution. The RNC is endorsing Mark Kirk a liberal RINO that voted for Cap and Trade as a Representative in the House and he is pro late term partial abortion and against the Child Interstate Abortion Act http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=7972&can_id=33502 . He is also anti-gun.

Don Lowery is a retired judge and served in the Army in Korea and Viet Nam. He is pro life and progun.To see his views on the issues go to   http://www.judgelowery4ussenate.com/wordpress/

Don Lowery is a chance to put a “real” conservative in the Senate that will be for real change that will get us smaller government, lower taxes, and adherence to the Constitution. He can use your support as the RNC isn’t helping him please go to http://www.judgelowery4ussenate.com/wordpress/  and donate what you can. This is a grass roots effort and no matter how small a donation they add up.

I put this in as a blog because the site will not add my and Hepsy's blog on the site list and never posts the articles.

 

WHAT IS UP WITH ALL OF THESE COMMERCIAL NON-BLOGS?

I am tired of all these against the terms of service supposed blogs that are being allowed now. Is the site in such finacial dire straights it is purposfully allowing them? Going to the Blogs section has become a hunt for a real members entry. I believe it has reduced the number of legitamate blogs. The Politics.com people need to put a stop to them. Let them know about this problem. If you want them stopped voice your opininion in a comment.

BEST QUOTE OF 2009

 

              

 

 

BEST QUOTE OF 2009 ...BRAVO FOR SHERIFF JUDD.

 

Gotta admire the man for being honest.

Florida got it right. Bravo for Sheriff Judd

 

POLK COUNTY FLORIDA SHERIFF GRADY JUDD

An illegal alien in Polk County Florida who got pulled over in a routinetraffic stop ended up 'executing' the deputy who stopped him. 

The deputy was shot eight times, including once behind his right ear at

close range. Another deputy was wounded and a police dog killed.

A state wide manhunt ensued.

The murderer was found hiding in a wooded area with his gun.

After he shot at them, SWAT team officers open fired and hit the guy 68 times.

Now here's the kicker:

Naturally, the liberal media went nuts and asked why they shot the

poor undocumented immigrant 68 times.

Sheriff Grady Judd told the Orlando Sentinel:

Talk about an all-time classic answer.

'Because that's all the ammunition we had'

 

Thanks to UKFan for the Email this came from

 

 

Members Blogs Post Them Here

There are many folks on Politics.com with blogs. I would like to bookmark them. I think other members might want to visit your sites too, Politics seems to be going downhill.

The Real Newt Gingrich

This is a vid that chronicles Newt Gingrich's life, Collegiate and congressional. His recent support of the liberal RINO in the New York 23rd is not a fluke, go to this site and you will see why--http://vimeo.com/6445068    He is no true conservative.

Impeach Obama 2010

If you can’t make it out, the book is called THE POST AMERICAN WORLD. That’s right, it’s a book by some Arab named Fareed Zakaria that describes how to destroy America. Do you need more proof of his intentions?

 

 

ImpeachObamaCampaign.com             is a site collecting signatures for 2010 after a hopeful majority of Republicans and Libertarians in one or both houses. Check out what the site has to say.

 

                                                          ImpeachObamaCampaign.com   

 

Conspiracy in the Courts?

 The California Federal Obama eligibility case presided over by Judge Carter was dismised today after Carter had previously stated in court it would go forward to trial on Jan. 26, 2010. The judge dismissed the case for the reasons the court could not overturn the voters and the court did not have jurisdiction. Just like all the other cases, the evidence was never investigated or examined. To infer congress was to investigate this matter is putting the fox in charge of the hen house. Now obama can say out in the open I was born in Kenya and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.

Courts have said the plaintiffs didn't have standing, then who does? They have said the COLB was on the INTERNET and had been proven legit, by what governmental entity?   There was no investigation into Obama's eligibility status before the election even though there were calls for it and McCain was checked out. The courts have opted out and the congress will never look into this. We could now have a foreign born president with a willing majority party become dictator and suspend all elections to rule for life and you and I could do nothing short of revolt. Thing is they would have to get the guns. Guess what? Obama want's them.

You look at the evidence and decide.

1) Obama has put on the internet as proof of natural born status a Hawaii Certificate of Live Birth or COLB it has been proven by many to be a fraudulent document but that is irrelevant, it is not a birth certificate and at that time Hawaii was giving out COLBS to aliens not born in this country.

2) Obama has spent over 1 million dollars and an unknown amount of taxpayer money on DOJ lawyers to fight disclosing his birth certificate, passport records, college and school records, name changes, medical records, and draft records. All have been sealed by executive order. If he is fighting so hard to hide these documents, why? where I'm from if you work to hide something it means you have done something wrong, it's typical for kids and adults to hide what they are ashamed to show.

3)Obama talks in his book that he went to Pakistan with friends when no US passported individual could. What country's passport did he use?

4)His name on Indonesian school records is Barry Soweto and there are no records available as to a name change. Who is he?

5)His paternal grandmother said she was present at his birth in Kenya and his maternal grandmother said he was born there too. There are no doctors, nurses, or anyone that has come forward stating they were at his birth in Hawaii.

6)The Obama administration and family members have given two different hospitals as his birth place.

7)He admitted in the Illinois Senate race he was not a natural born citizen and has a Kenyan born father that would give him dual citizenship at best. His mother was not old enough to give him citizenship if born in Kenya. Either negates natural born.  

I'm sure there are people on the site and those filing court cases have more, but I came up with these as I wrote them. There seems to be real strong evidence of a conspiracy in the courts to conceal evidence and not allow the judicial system to work. Have these judges been threatened? Have they been bought off?

The Northwest Pasage and The Global Warming Hoax

3-4 years ago there was a great deal of talk and international squabbling going on about rights to the sea bed and Northwest Passage opening up due to global warming. The polar bears were going to all die out and other dire things were to happen. Guess what it's all freezing over and all the talk is dead silent. Where's Al Gore now? This is a picture of the Northwest passage late Aug 2009. When it should be at a minimum.

I submitted this as news but it takes 2 days for consevatives to get unsubmitted sites to get posed assuring they never make the 24 hour window.

In late August 2009, ice clogged some but not all of the Northwest Passage, and snow had retreated from most of the islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite caught this rare cloud-free view of the archipelago on August 27, 2009. Although Parry Channel appears partially ice free, especially in the east, sea ice spans most of McClure Strait, blocking the northern, or preferred, route through the Northwest Passage. The southern route, however, which Roald Amundsen followed from 1903 to 1906, appears open. Amundsen navigated around the southern perimeter of King William Island, passing through a narrow strait on his way westward.

Snow-free land surfaces allow a view of the islands’ topography. While the western end of Baffin Island appears flat and almost featureless, dramatic stripes cross Bathurst Island in the northwest. These approximately east-west stripes result from layers of exposed bedrock, likely tilted by a mountain-building event in the mid-Mesozoic Era. Snow-free landmasses vary in color from beige to brown. Cold temperatures, persistent snow cover, and short growing seasons limit tree growth so far north, leaving the islands coated with tundra.

The northern, or preferred, route through the Northwest Passage has been navigable a few times, and it appeared wide open in satellite imagery in 2007. The route that Amundsen followed. World wide temps have been dropping since 2007.�

Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC)

This is an article from Physicians Practice Website. I posted it as a blog because the articles on this program are on sites not submitted from before and as with the last one submitted never make it to the site before the 24 window expires.

This program will close hospitals, doctor offices and ambulance companies for small paperwork errors. They also call some medical procedures once in a lifetime events and will disallow payments for more than one.

Bronchoscopy is one of these and many times it is needed more than once as I have seen the need as an ICU nurse.  There are more of these procedures that are many times needed more than once and non medically trained bureaucrat will be making decisions on what was proper. This is a stealth way to socialized medicine and rationing care to medicare patients.

Ready for Medicare's Audit Police? By Pamela Moore

Dwight Scott, a healthcare lawyer with McGlinchey Stafford in Houston, has a client near bankruptcy, and says you could be next. The ambulance company he represents was targeted by a Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC), one of the organizations CMS pays on contingency to find fraud. According to Scott, the RAC pulled 30 claims representing 26 patients from the company’s files, found a 94 percent error rate, and extrapolated that only 6 percent of all CMS’ payments have been correct. The rest? Medicare will recoup its payments from future checks, basically ensuring the demise of the ambulance group. If the company were really out to defraud American taxpayers, then it’s getting what it deserves. But Scott maintains his client merely made “small, small documentation errors.” Providers generate “9,000 claims a minute,” according to Scott’s estimates. “It’s no wonder if there are some small errors.” Scott blames President Obama for a CMS audit program run amok, citing his rhetoric about cutting costs in healthcare, but the reality is that a RAC trial has been in place since 2005. The permanent version rolling out now began in Texas on March 1, which explains the pressure Scott’s clients are feeling. The RAC pilot identified $992.7 million in overpayments through 2008. The pilot is now over and CMS considers it a smashing success. Auditors will be arriving in force in your neighborhood by year’s end if they’re not there already. Should you be worried? Well, you should be concerned, but not panicked. For one thing, most audits to date have focused on big-dollar targets — hospitals — and not on private physician practices. Ninety-five percent of the dollars collected by RACs during the trial were from hospitals, according to American Hospital Association, which is up in arms and tracking RAC activities closely. Still, expect auditors to increase their focus on private practices in the near future. And it would be hard to call the RAC process strictly fair. It’s not so much that auditors find errors; it’s that they’re allowed to extrapolate a sample as small as 30 claims to draw conclusions about a whole year’s worth of claims. Are 30 claims representative enough to force the shuttering of, say, an ambulance company? Probably not, but CMS allows RACs to use extrapolation wherever “there was evidence of a sustained or high level of payment error …” That means they’ll be able to extrapolate in virtually every case in which they find problems. And at what point can you consider a Medicare payment closed and safe from further scrutiny? RAC regulations allow auditors to go back as far as four years. (A pending legal case brought by Palomar Medical Center in San Diego could make it harder for auditors to go back more than one year, if Palomar prevails.) Add in the fact that RACs get paid commissions based on what they discover, and the whole thing starts to stink. Not even IRS auditors are paid bonuses based on how much money they “recover.” Isn’t that an incentive to find problems where none really exist? Well, according to CMS, 22 percent of claims denied by RACs were appealed, and providers prevailed in more than a third of those appeals. So that suggests that the RACs are overreaching a bit — but it also clarifies that there is a way to fight back. In the event of an audit, the best offense is a good defense. If auditors discover very little wrong in your billing, there is simply little reason for them to pursue the case. Do some serious self-audits, especially around your documentation of medical necessity and coding practices. Forty percent of the dollars recovered by RACs in the demonstration phase were for medical necessity problems. Another 35 percent were for incorrect coding. Now would be a good time to make sure everyone in your practice is doing things right. Whatever you do, don’t give into a victim mentality. CMS and RACs are not out to get you. Nor is the Obama administration. I wouldn’t want to pay for stuff I didn’t need to pay for, either, so why should the government? Those Medicare dollars are tax dollars — my dollars, your dollars — and it’s sure hard to argue with the idea that they should be spent well. This is less a case of us against them and more a case of us against the very bizarre system we ourselves have built. Approach it with reason, not angst. Pamela Moore is director of content and strategy for Physicians Practice. She can be reached at pam.moore@cmpmedica.com or via her Twitter account: http://twitter.com/pamelamoore. This article originally appeared in the June 2009 issue of Physicians Practice.