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$300,000,000.00 Buys a Lot of Donuts!

by: Dean Barker

Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 06:28:25 AM EDT
Vote for John Stephen, and he'll save the state of New Hampshire billions and trillions of dollars nothing:
Stephen says the state can save hundreds of millions of dollars by converting its Medicaid program into a "managed care" system, one that emphasizes preventive care for its recipients. Stephen refers to a report prepared by the insurance company Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield in making his claim.

"They say, as a conservative estimate, the state would save $300 million with managed care," Stephen told a group of Monitor editors and reporters last week.

A conservative estimate!
And, if the experience of other states is any guide, any savings in New Hampshire are likely to be much more modest than those outlined by Stephen, according to the very report Stephen quotes on the campaign trail.
But grab a donut (preferably not from CT or MA), and read the whole thing.
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Donut Holes (4.00 / 2)
Looks to me that a lot of John Stephen's budget projections are full of donut holes.  
This is the same thing (4.00 / 1)
he was pushing (unsuccessfully) when he was at DHHS. It's Granite Care, which he proudly modeled after TennCare - the same program that nearly bankrupted the state of Tennessee.

http://nashville.bizjournals.c...

Approx. 190,000 participants were kicked off in 2004, and limits were imposed on the number of prescription medications each participant could receive.

This is the kind of bankrupting/rationing system that Johnny "Munchkin" Stephens has in mind for NH.  

member of the professional left  

"Managed care" is just another scheme to get (0.00 / 0)
a cut of the health care dollar for middlemen who add no value.  One might have expected insurance companies to provide an objective overview.  However, if we can't trust medical professionals to manage the care of their patients, we might as well hang it up and die early.

When you come right down to it, the dollars are not the problem.  The problem is being "managed" and "manhandled" and "massaged" and "manipulated" so satisfy some prurient interest that leaves one worse off than when it started.

Humans exploit nature.  That's the essence of agricultural enterprise.  The exploitation of their own kind is demeaning and, in the long run, destructive of human kind.  You could say that deprivation is piecemeal cannibalism.  

Stephen was selling it last year (4.00 / 2)
He took his traveling road show pitching it to Governors, last year.

Who remembers Lucas Group?

The administration has been unable to produce a bid or contract for the Boston-based company that has emerged as a major player in[Governor] Carcieri's securing of a federal waiver giving the state unprecedented freedom in how it spends its Medicaid dollars on health care for the poor, the elderly and the disabled.
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In fact, the administration had insisted for months that John Stephen and the Lucas Group, the Boston company for which he works, had volunteered their time to the state's effort to win the waiver from the Bush administration. A partner in the company, Stephen is a former health and human services commissioner in New Hampshire and a failed GOP candidate for Congress. Gary Alexander, who was confirmed by the state Senate June 9 as Rhode Island's new secretary of health and human services, campaigned for Stephen and helped raise money for him with a fundraiser at his home.

Hell, Governor Lynch probably has the handout from Stephen's PowerPoint pitch, laying around the corner office.

Stephen wants our money in his friends pockets.

www.KusterforCongress.com - www.paulhodesforsenate.com

www.nikitsongas.com - www.devalpatrick.com

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