LET’S TAKE CHIQUITA’S BANANAS AWAY

Medicare Needs A Competent Administrator

WHY?  The United States is the only industrialized country that does not have Universal Health Care.  The closest thing to it is Medicare, a health plan for people over 65 years of age.  It is also a fee for service operation that reimburses only 80% of charges (with limitations on what it recompenses).  Individuals participating in Medicare, besides using Social Security income for the service, must pay monthly for supplemental insurance that covers what Medicare doesn’t.  They must also disburse funds for a prescribed drug compensation plan.

According to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, “[i]n fiscal year 2022, the Medicare program cost $767 billion — about 13 percent of total federal government spending. Medicare was the second largest program in the federal budget last year, after Social Security.”

Chiquita Brooks-Lasure & Joe Biden

Chiquita Brooks-Lasure is the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), where she oversees programs including Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the HealthCare.gov health insurance marketplace. 

She is also astonishingly incompetent.  And favors Big Business (or even Small Business) over the people her position requires her to help.  She and her bumbling, stumbling staff (one of whom was fired for coming to work drunk) don’t even  know the organization’s own rules and regulations.  Medicare is required to pay for Durable Medical Equipment (DME) such as wheelchairs, walkers, and Ankle-Foot Orthoses (AFOs). 

And that’s where I got a good look at her inability to do her job.