Holding Those Responsible Who Profited in the Billions to Fix Flawed...
I have been busy trying to help educate and inform all on what goes on today and what the issues are. I have my series called the Attack of the Killer Algorithms and if you have not looked, there's...
View ArticleMitch McConnell Duped and Duped Again - It Was On the Internet
You know I saw this and I had to laugh too one one side and on the other end it scares the daylights out of me. I’m one of those out here with a few others that would just love to “help” educate some...
View ArticleE-Scoring and Selling Flawed Data Hurts Consumers
I write about this topic a lot, why? Because flawed data and data selling has become an epidemic in the US. It is all not accurate. E-Scoring gets around the laws as far as giving any consumer any...
View ArticleHealth Insurance Companies Make Big Dollars Selling Data
United Healthcare probably makes more money selling data out there than most do as it started years ago with Ingenix and they have a a full set of analytics where they sell data. It started out...
View ArticleUS Needs To Hire Technologists To Fight Crime
It's been a few weeks back but if you had the opportunity to watch the PBS Frontline report it was a sad state of affairs. Sadly and no disrespect here but I can't figure out for the life of me why we...
View ArticleNurse Refuses to Give Senior Woman CPR As Heard on the 911 Call And The...
This is chilling and worth a listen as is this is what "contracts and policies" are coming to?You can hear the 911 frustrated operator trying to get the nurse to even grab someone else if she won't...
View ArticleHealth Insurers Buy Up Consumer Spending Data - Can Know Everything You...
Here's more about my consumer watch diaries. Data selling and buying has reached an absolute epidemic rate? Why, because companies and banks make BILLIONS selling it. The latest here is health...
View ArticleThe Affordible Complexities Act-I'm Changing the Name - Occupy Banking News
Ok those of you who have read some of my stuff before might grit your teeth and say she's back with that math and code again:) I'm trying to help here with some education and I don't expect everyone...
View ArticleFDA Mobile App & Website-Great Tools for Consumers
If you have not seen this, here's brief description of what the FDA is doing. The FDA is a "consumer" agency and we really do have a good commissioner with Dr. Margaret Hamburg. Her background is...
View ArticleThe Retirement Game - 401K Complexities Just Like Health Insurance
If you have a 401k then you should watch this PBS video by all means and see how Hedge Funds skim off and play with the money. See the fees that are in there and how Wall Street operates basically...
View ArticleAttack of the Killer Algorithms Continues
I did a series of posts on this topic and basically what we are seeing with the NSA revelations so far is the ability to use data out of context and that is what I hear from Snowden so far, but it...
View ArticleToo Big to Fail Health Insurance?
I did a post this morning about the Tri-Care military contract and United Healthcare. I keep finding in my research that I do for blog content, more and more owned subsidiaries and this is something I...
View ArticleA New Low as Insurer & Pharma Unite to Sell Data
Here we go again and one thing I keep telling all is please recognize the data selling epidemic we have in the US. It is uprooting the economy right now and that's part of the reason manufacturing is...
View ArticleOccupy Group Releases Their Alternative Banking Book - Occupy Finance
Ok once more it's time for me to beat everyone over the head again about math. I know my posts are not as exciting as many but it's the bottom line. I just put a post on my blog relative to the...
View ArticleTechnologists Working on Insurance Exchanges, A Big Thankless Job...
Ok I'm a technologist that is also human, spend 25 years in sales and marketing before crossing over to the code side,which I don't do anymore as I wanted a life back. Don't give up on getting...
View ArticleHHS Secretary TV Appearances - Lack of Healtht IT
It was actually pretty sad and this is not personal at all and back in 2009 I said when nominated that Health IT would eat her up one day meaning she was going to get duped and duped again by insurers....
View ArticleUnited Healthcare Fires 5500 MDs-Attack of the Killer Algorithms Again
Ok here I am again with my math model and algorithms...just trying to bring across the point that nothing a politician says or does means a thing until the math and formulas that are tied to laws and...
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Obamacare: The Continuous Rise & Fall of the Machines & Power
This has been sad to see how some people are getting hurt with the way that the business formulas are shuffling out. The law was not meant to be bad but since it was passed, like everything out there...
View ArticleUS to Share the Love of Health Insurance Models With the UK
Here's another one...it's all about models and this is a reprint from my blog..United Healthcare Executive to Leave the US and Run the NHS in England-Big Data Math Models and Algorithmic Business...
View ArticleBoehner Enrolled On Healthcare.Gov - So Where's the Rest of Congress?
It was in Politico today that John Boehner shared the painof Healthcare.Gov and I think all members of Congress should get on there as there's nothing like first hand experience at any of this, user or...
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Senator Rockefeller Puts Data Brokers on Notice - These Folks Need A License
It's been about 2 years with me blogging about my campaign to get Congress to pass a bill to license and excise tax the data sellers like Walgreens who pulls in about a billion a year, just selling...
View ArticleThe Movie HER-Virtual and Real Worlds Collide - Dangers That Lie Ahead For...
Here I am again the former software developer just adding some information that I felt was important to note. The movie HER shows how folks anymore can't tell the real world from the virtual software...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi Throws HHS Sebelius Under the Bus
This was pretty good... Do you have your insurance..Jon says…again it’s the same old same old…digital illiteracy…folks your jobs are changing with the need for “some” IT knowledge. Stewart talks about...
View ArticleWho's In Charge Out There?
We keep seeing inequality growing all the time and technology is allowing this to happen as the wealthy who have access to both money and technology are modeling it that way for the rest of us. I think...
View ArticleInequality With Health Insurance Claims
This is one of those jaw dropping health insurance stories for sure. There's a few interesting characters in this one. In New York as well as several other states we have seen United Healthcare...
View ArticleData Brokers, Things to Be Aware of - $150 Billion Dollar Business Selling...
Ok here's some more and I know this is not feel good stuff at all but I do it as an awareness and last night I had the chance to talk to someone that was formerly in this business who also has a nice...
View ArticleThe Secret Scoring of America -World Privacy Forum
This is a short edit of my post on my blog, and the World Privacy Forum Report is worth the read, all eyes on the US as to what in heck is going on in the US. I have embedded the full report below and...
View ArticleVA Hospital in Phoenix and the Secret Death List of 40
We all know the VA is under pressure almost all across the country and this is the sad result when such methodologies are used to hide what is actually happening in the “real” world and virtual...
View ArticleObama and the Japanese Robots
The President felt uneasy with the Japanese robots today...and well who doesn't. Let's hope this is not the next thing in healthcare here.
View ArticleFuture of Appealing Insurance Claims Might Be Your Local TV Station
Here's a television station in Phoenix who's jumped on this band wagon and they keep score too on the dollar amounts they have saved and helped consumers with. You may have recently seen Wendell...
View ArticleWhite House Privacy Report-Not Much To Write Home About
In essence I was pretty disappointed here as there was nothing new and no mention of the big dollars that the data sellers make. This is an abridged version of what I wrote at my blog...I'm still on...
View ArticleFeds Building Data Base With Our Personal Consumer Credit Data
You have non other than Richard Cordray to thank for this, remember he's the guy hired to protect us, well not this time...wrong guy in wrong job..when he was appointed I had this tosay 2 years ago and...
View ArticleMore Privacy Information and Abuses
I don't know if you happened to see the article about the hospital now buying data from Axciom and from MasterCard that was around a few days ago, and if not I did my take on this. We are at the hands...
View ArticleFeds Intervene to File Case Against Optum/United HC Hospice
I wondered how long before this was going to get some attention as having an insurance company, Optum, a subsidiary of United Healthcare just does not seem to fit well. Two whistle blowers filed cases...
View Article2 MD Interns Jump to Their Death in New York
These were doctors in New York and not bankers as those make the news and these barely made any news. Sad state of affairs as the pressure on doctors is rising. We need our doctors. These were two...
View ArticlePrivacy - Be Aware of the Data Snatchers
I'm the accidental privacy advocate out there and I say that as it was never my intentions to dive in but I did. The reason I did was because everyone else with their good intentions are not data...
View ArticleCDC Shuts Down Lean Works Website - People Getting Fired
Below is a republication of a portion of this from my blog..this is what happens when CDC gets duped on models. Lean Works was the name of the program. Employers and employees could set up accounts...
View ArticleCROmnibus-Elizabeth Warren Stands Tall
I think we all can appreciate Elizabeth Warren's battle to remove that portion of the Dodd Frank bank giveaway. It was interesting watching this evolve too as I saw it a few days ahead and myself and...
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Head of Medicare To Leave In February
This just occurred on Friday if you have not heard the news yet. I have to say in her support that her background was that of a nurse, they are good people and a bit luck and maybe knowing some of...
View ArticleAnthem Breach - Crooks Want Data To Sell Too
We have a somewhat new breed of hackers out there today. I'm sure by now you have read one of the many articles about what was taken, but pretty much it was demographics on the insured or prior...
View ArticleHumana Goes Up For Sale - Health Insurance News
I don't know if many caught this story or not but like every other industry we are seeing big the fish swallowing the smaller fish. For those on Medicare part D, I think this is a story to follow....
View ArticleLittle Time for Charity At Walgreens
Talk about waste, this article says it all and the mayor of the small town was just beside herself as well. A de-commissioned store is the subject here and instead of donating brand new inventory,...
View ArticleMedication Adherence Secret Scoring of Consumers
I'm partly re-publishing a blog post I made on this topic as it's important and nobody gets away it seems unless you never fill a prescription. This is scary stuff and no science to these numbers, you...
View ArticleAre You Up For a One Time Goldman Sachs Banker to Run Medicare?
I look at things this way, leopards don't change their spots very often and this week Obama nominated Andy Slavitt as CMS director and of course he needs a Senate Confirmation. I think it's important...
View ArticleWar On Cash Now Hits the Prescription Counter-You're an Outlier
It's coming from all directions and I had a pharmacist who felt it was important that this knowledge get out there for people who fill prescriptions..well and that would be just about all of us, right?...
View ArticleExcess Scoring of US Consumers -You Can Do Anything With Software
I wrote this a while back on my blog and maybe in light of the Volkswagon "Code Hosing" news to where software was manipulated to lie, maybe this might have some interest. We know that companies and...
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Cronyism in the Business of Healthcare Goes Way Beyond What You Could Imagine
This is a reprint of a recent post….and basically what I am stating here is to pay attention to who’s on what board and what they do, along with some history you may not be aware of. While all were...
View ArticleZeke Emanuel Joins Venture Capital Group–Will He Still Be Writing US...
This is a reprint of a post made at my blog, important, yes. Zeke Emanuel is over at the Center for American Progress, just like old Jonathon Gruber was. Sad part of the story is that we had...
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United Files Lawsuit Against CMS/HHS–Doesn’t Want to Pay Their Share of the...
This is a re-publication of a post recently posted at my blog…This has been kicking around out there since Whistleblower lawsuits were filed. Initially Humana was the first target and between United...
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Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center McKesson EHR Hacked And Hospital Data...
This is a reprint of my blog post...be aware this stuff is on the rise...nice to show up and the doctor says we don’t have any records, we’ve been hacked. I assume back ups were hacked as well and I...
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