Mon Aug 6, 2012, 09:44 PM
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Author | Time | Post |
 Hospital Chain Inquiry Cited Unnecessary Cardiac Work (Original post) |
alp227 | Aug 2012 | OP |
| Dustlawyer | Aug 2012 | #1 | |
| xtraxritical | Aug 2012 | #5 | |
| siligut | Aug 2012 | #2 | |
| xtraxritical | Aug 2012 | #6 | |
| UpInArms | Aug 2012 | #3 | |
| Horse with no Name | Aug 2012 | #4 | |
| Stuart G | Aug 2012 | #7 | |
| SharonAnn | Aug 2012 | #10 | |
| supernova | Aug 2012 | #8 | |
| april | Aug 2012 | #9 | |
| thecrow | Aug 2012 | #11 | |
| LiberalAndProud | Aug 2012 | #13 | |
| underpants | Aug 2012 | #12 | |
| bobthedrummer | Aug 2012 | #14 | |
| bobthedrummer | Aug 2012 | #15 |
Response to alp227 (Original post)
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 10:04 PM
Dustlawyer (1,324 posts)
1. Let's do more tort reform to make it even harder to find out what happens when doctors
Response to Dustlawyer (Reply #1)
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 12:14 AM
xtraxritical (2,984 posts)
5. Tort reform is taking away my and your rights to litigate. A complete scam
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it also aims at putting a big crimp in the legal profession; they're usually big DNC contributors, that's really why it doesn't pass muster. I hope they keep knocking it down. Vote straight DEMocratic.
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Response to alp227 (Original post)
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 10:12 PM
siligut (11,135 posts)
2. Imagine seeing your MD for help
Response to siligut (Reply #2)
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 12:18 AM
xtraxritical (2,984 posts)
6. My uncle was a general surgeon in So. Cal. say 1968 thru '95
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back in the early '70s he told me there was lots of unnecessary surgery's, especially heart surgeries.
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Response to alp227 (Original post)
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 10:24 PM
UpInArms (42,640 posts)
3. more background: Feds investigating Frist's HCA stock sale
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9450770/ns/politics/t/feds-investigating-frists-hca-stock-sale/#.UCB7r5L6e5U
updated 9/23/2005 12:44:27 PM ET
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Hospital operator HCA Inc. said Friday that federal prosecutors have issued a subpoena for documents the company believes may be related to the sale of its stock by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. A release from the Nashville-based company said the subpoena came from the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Frist’s office confirmed the SEC is looking into the sale. <snip> HCA, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital company, was founded by Frist’s father and his brother was formerly its CEO and chairman and remains on the board of directors. Frist asked a trustee to sell all his HCA stock in June, near a 52-week stock price peak of $58.40 and at the same time HCA insiders were selling off shares. Reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission showed insiders sold about 2.3 million shares, worth about $112 million, from January through June, said Mark LoPresti of Thomson Financial. The sale came about two weeks before the company issued a disappointing earnings forecast that drove its stock price down almost 16 percent by mid-July. They still have not recovered, closing Thursday at $45.90. man... I just hate those "disappointing earnings" reports 
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Response to alp227 (Original post)
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 11:03 PM
4. I am going to try to find it
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but several years ago I posted in the old DU about a job offer that I had that was reviewing charts for the entire country regarding medicare fraud specifically cardiac care. And, they were starting in Florida.
I am guessing this is the fruits of that. |
Response to alp227 (Original post)
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 07:04 AM
Stuart G (7,687 posts)
7. Do you think Rick Scott will answer questions on this?
Response to Stuart G (Reply #7)
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 12:02 PM
SharonAnn (9,652 posts)
10. Wasn't HCA fined more than $1.2 billion in their Medicare fraud scam?
Response to alp227 (Original post)
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 09:07 AM
8. While I'm horrified for the patients
Response to alp227 (Original post)
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 09:14 AM
april (1,148 posts)
9. I did read this what is that about Bain ? That Rommney did not own at the time
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Response to thecrow (Reply #11)
Sat Aug 18, 2012, 02:23 AM
LiberalAndProud (9,901 posts)
13. I find this obscene.
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HCA Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HCA): HCA Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HCA), a health care services companies in the United States, posted its financial and operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012. Revenue in the latest quarter was increased by 12% to US$8.112 billion, from US$7.249 billion in the same quarter of 2011. For the same quarter, net income attributable to HCA Holdings, Inc. was US$391 million, or US$0.85 per diluted share. That is compared with US$229 million, or US$0.43 per diluted share, in the prior-year quarter. By the end of Monday's trading, shares of HCA Holdings slumped 3.95% to US$25.55 with significant volume traded. There were 10.56 million stock shares traded, which was 3 times more than average volume. Investors may want to find out how HCA Holdings insiders like CEOs, CFOs and Directors are thinking about the future of the company. Check this insider trade report for HCA here.
http://www.nebraska.tv/story/19214108/critical-stock-alerts-bank-of-america-apple-hca-holdings-aes-micron-and-advanced-micro-devices (emphasis added) $8.112 billion in three months on the backs of people who have the misfortune to fall sick or injured. It's crazy making that we can fund profits like this, but can't figure out a way to fund Medicare. I give up.  |
Response to alp227 (Original post)
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 08:31 PM
underpants (105,621 posts)
12. Obamacare - this is a result of actual investigations of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
Response to alp227 (Original post)
Sat Aug 18, 2012, 03:03 PM
14. For those seeking some more background about the corruption of US health care here's an archived
Response to bobthedrummer (Reply #14)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 02:35 PM
15. Medical Supply Chain Decries US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Investigation of General Electric
