New Discussion on Your FreedomConnector Group: 100 Million Patriots Standing

> Carolyn Crawford has started a new FreedomConnector discussion on your group:
> 100 Million Patriots Standing
>
> Subject: Here is anohter EXAMPLE of how BO is PURPOSELY TRYING TO BANKRUPT
> OUR COUNTRY
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> *IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free... The offer is true.
> Mort Zuckermann, US News and World Report, a Democrat, was interviewed
> on Fox and confirmed it. IBM has confirmed it. You won't believe it .
>
> IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free...
>
> What if I told you that the Chairman and CEO of IBM, Samuel J.
> Palmisano, approached President Obama and members of his administration
> before the healthcare bill debates with a plan that would reduce
> healthcare expenditures by $900 billion? Given the Obama
> Administration's adamancy that the United States of America simply had
> to make healthcare (read: health insurance) affordable for even the most
> dedicated welfare recipient, one would think he would have leaned
> forward in his chair, cupped his ear and said, "Tell me more!"
>
> And what if I told you that the cost to the federal government for this
> program was nothing, zip, nada, zilch?
> And, what if I told you that, in the end and after two meetings,
> President Obama and his team, instead of embracing a program that was
> proven to save money and one that was projected to save almost one
> trillion dollars - a private sector program costing the taxpayers
> nothing, zip, nada, zilch - said, "Thanks but no thanks" and then
> embarked on passing one of the most despised pieces of legislation in US
> history?
>
> Well, it's all true.
>
> Samuel J. Palmisano, the Chairman of the Board and CEO for IBM, said in
> a recent Wall Street Journal interview that he offered to provide the
> Obama Administration with a program that would curb healthcare
> claims fraud and abuse by almost one trillion dollars but the Obama
> White House turned the offer down.
>
> Mr. Palmisano is quoted as saying during a taping**
> **<**http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcR_bLBHcJo*
> *> of The Wall Street
> Journal's Viewpoints program on September 14, 2010:
>
> "We could have improved the quality and reduced the cost of the
> healthcare system by $900 billion...I said we would do it for free to
> prove that it works. They turned us down."
>
> A second meeting between Mr. Palmisano and the Obama Administration took
> place two weeks later, with no change in the Obama Administration's
> stance. A call placed to IBM on October 8, 2010, by FOX News confirmed,
> via a spokesperson, that Mr. Palmisano stands by his statement.
>
> Speaking with FOX News' Stuart Varney, Mort Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief
> of US News & World Report, said,
>
> "It's a little bit puzzling because I think there is a huge amount of
> both fraud and inefficiency that American business is a lot more
> comfortable with and more effective in trying to reduce. And this is
> certainly true because the IBM people have studied this very carefully
> And when Palmisano went to the White House and made that proposal, it
> was based upon a lot of work and it was not accepted. And it's really
> puzzling...These are very, very responsible people and don't have a
> political ax to grind.
>
> In Mr. Obama's shunning of a private sector program that would have
> saved our country almost $1 trillion in healthcare expenditures,
> presented to him as he declared a "crisis in healthcare," he proves
> two things beyond any doubt: that he is anti-Capitalist and anti-private
> sector in nature and that he can no longer be trusted to tell the truth
> in both his political declarations or espoused goals.*****
> ****
>