Part
One -
Two MetLife executives gave Obama huge contributions. One year later they both
signed page 5 of the DOJ agreement where no one was prosecuted for MetLife’s
bid rigging and “related fraudulent conduct”.
Part
Two –
You’ll see quotes I compiled from 51 Federal Judges that prove MetLife and
doctors paid by MetLife ignore life threatening medical conditions including
Multiple Sclerosis, brain lesions, cardiac conditions and cancer. This is
happening when patients file claims on the policies that MetLife rigged bids to
sell !!
One
of 51 Examples – U.S. Magistrate Judge
Jennifer Guerm wrote :
"MetLife’s review of Plaintiff’s appeal consistently omitted or misrepresented relevant information in several ways”.
Judge Guerm also wrote that Heart Specialist Dr. Barnett sent a letter to MetLife stating: "I am gravely disturbed by your misrepresentation of the facts”
"MetLife’s review of Plaintiff’s appeal consistently omitted or misrepresented relevant information in several ways”.
Judge Guerm also wrote that Heart Specialist Dr. Barnett sent a letter to MetLife stating: "I am gravely disturbed by your misrepresentation of the facts”
“It misquoted Whitehouse’s doctors and
cherry-picked or took out of context statements made. The denials continued to
press factual inaccuracies even after being informed of the errors.”
Federal Judge Richard Enslen wrote “MetLife and its henchmen” because MetLife also endangers many psychological patients. Judges also wrote MetLife conceals documents from patients and MetLife’s attorneys lie in Court if the patient lives to get to Court.
You’ll see quotes from many more Judges and Doctors!!
I
asked the Court to stop ALL of this. Federal Judge Bryant’s written
response to me included : “the enforcement of such provisions is the
exclusive prerogative of the Attorney General”.
Obama and his AG refuse continue to refuse action after receiving evidence via certified mailings, court , and personal visits to the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s office!
Obama and his AG refuse continue to refuse action after receiving evidence via certified mailings, court , and personal visits to the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s office!
Quotes from four law Professors prove these
crimes are committed openly and often ! Here’s one example you’ll see. John
Marshall Law School Professor Mark Debofsky wrote:
“empirical evidence is now available that shows insurers operating under ERISA have systematically engaged in the wrongful denial of claims”
“empirical evidence is now available that shows insurers operating under ERISA have systematically engaged in the wrongful denial of claims”
The U.S. Title 29 ERISA laws just mentioned
regulate health plans for 150 million Americans but are rarely enforced!
Part
Three –
The Exhibits prove multiple insurance companies are committing identical deadly
crime patterns in five types of insurance and because of this (1) Many Injured
Workers have committed suicide (2) Long Term Care patients have been denied
treatment when insurance companies fabricated pre existing conditions (3)
Patients are forced to go without medical treatment and surgery while
insurance companies intentionally ignore medical evidence (4) Civilian contractors
supporting our troops in War Zones suffer devastating injuries but insurance
companies are illegally denying or delaying medical treatment and replacement
limbs. (5) Blue Shield and Health Net illegally cancelled patients entire
policies when they sought treatment and surgery !!
Brief Example - WFAA - TV
wrote this in their Peabody award winning series featured on PBS:
“a remarkable number of
Texans committed suicide because they could no longer endure the pain caused by
their injuries and they had been repeatedly turned down for worker’s comp care.
Some insurance companies send peer review doctors medical files “stripped” of
records important to the possible approval of workers’ comp claims.”
Here
are quotes from Pulitzer Prize winning ProPublica.org regarding insurance for
contractors supporting our troops:
“Civilian workers suffered devastating injuries while supporting the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan. The insurance companies responsible for their treatment under taxpayer-funded policies have routinely denied the most serious medical claims. Those insurers -- primarily American International Group (AIG) -- recorded hundreds of millions of dollars in profits on this business. The Labor Department seldom took action to enforce the law. Labor officials can recommend cases for prosecution to the Justice Department–but have only done so once in the past two decades, according to Labor officials.”
AIG also violated numerous laws in Workers comp in the U.S. and rigged bids while receiving $186 billion in bailouts from the U.S. Government !!
“Civilian workers suffered devastating injuries while supporting the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan. The insurance companies responsible for their treatment under taxpayer-funded policies have routinely denied the most serious medical claims. Those insurers -- primarily American International Group (AIG) -- recorded hundreds of millions of dollars in profits on this business. The Labor Department seldom took action to enforce the law. Labor officials can recommend cases for prosecution to the Justice Department–but have only done so once in the past two decades, according to Labor officials.”
AIG also violated numerous laws in Workers comp in the U.S. and rigged bids while receiving $186 billion in bailouts from the U.S. Government !!
PLEASE
REMEMBER YOU’LL SEE SHOCKING QUOTES FROM MANY JUDGES, DOCTORS AND PROFESSORS !!
After
numerous citizens requested action on ALL the evidence Blackburn’s assistant called
me from Washington and said “Health insurance is a state issue”. It’s a
deadly lie to say all the U.S. Title 29 Health Care laws being violated are
“state issues”. Blackburn speaks often on national TV about Federal Health Care
laws so she knows that’s false !! I read
all the Federal Laws being violated and told Blackburn’s assistant I wanted a
written response and assured me I would get one very soon. That was a lie too
!!
You’ll see much more evidence that Blackburn also completely ignored including nine more crime patterns committed by multiple corporations that Obama is protecting. Examples are :
You’ll see much more evidence that Blackburn also completely ignored including nine more crime patterns committed by multiple corporations that Obama is protecting. Examples are :
Drug makers and doctors engaged in fraud, kickbacks
and false statements about drugs safety; Identical insurance crime patterns committed by AIG, Prudential,
Unum and MetLife !! Identical financial crimes were committed by JP
Morgan, JPMorgan Chase, Citi Bank, Wells Fargo, GMAC, and Bank of
America!! Goldman Sachs, Magnetar, JP Morgan Chase and many more helped
crash the U.S. and world economy by engaging in patterns of identical
crimes.
Wachovia
Bank laundered $378 Billion for the Mexican Drug cartels that have murdered
over 50,000 and decapitate dozens at a time and dump them in crowded public
places !! You’ll see DOJ documents that prove they’re in 1,000 U.S. cities and
recruiting U.S. children; a 12 year old San Diego boy was kidnapped and forced
to decapitate four. The $378 billion laundered is enough to fund the entire
decade long Afghanistan war twice or half the entire Iraq war!! No one at
Wachovia was prosecuted by Obama’s administration. Obama received huge
contributions !!
Republican
Blackburn publicizes her visits to Churches and “Faith and values
coalitions” she created. Republican leaders often publicize their Christian
values. They would be late now but they could still take action. Isaiah 1:17 says: “Learn to do good; seek justice,
correct oppression” James 1:22 says : “Be ye doers of the word and not
hearers only, deceiving your own selves”. Can any real Christian (including
citizens) ignore these crimes that wealthy insurance companies are committing
against patients who are already overwhelmed with their illness or possible
death ??
After you see the Judges quotes you’ll understand why I
believe these Bible verses must explain Republicans and Democrats protecting
the same extreme crimes. Ephesians 6:12 says “For we wrestle not against
flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places”
Thousands of lives are being destroyed every year and your family is in great danger now !! Please read the evidence that was filed under oath and placed on this website for citizens to view and immediately contact Marsha Blackburn and the legislators listed in Exhibit A. Please tell them if they continue to ignore these crimes they’ll be voted out of office and hopefully indicted along with Obama :
Thousands of lives are being destroyed every year and your family is in great danger now !! Please read the evidence that was filed under oath and placed on this website for citizens to view and immediately contact Marsha Blackburn and the legislators listed in Exhibit A. Please tell them if they continue to ignore these crimes they’ll be voted out of office and hopefully indicted along with Obama :
Please
pray our legislators will realize they must stop protecting these crimes
because Luke 13:3 says “Except ye repent, ye
shall all likewise perish” I pray all citizens who can will take
action because I believe God expects us too !!
Credibility
of evidence - In 2005 I filed a complaint that led to the conviction of State
Senator John Ford. Quotes from WSMV’s news coverage are seen on the website
above. I’ve had cancer burned from the inside of one eye and orbital surgery on the other; please
excuse any slight redundancy between this introductory page and the website.
Sincerely, Barry Schmittou (email barryschmittou@live.com)
Here are links to the
full evidence of Obama Bribery and Manslaughter and ten patterns of deadly
corporate crimes Obama is protecting. This has all been filed under oath with
penalty of perjury with the House Oversight and Senate Judiciary Committees and
Republican Congressional leaders Blackburn, Issa and Grassley. They have done absolutely
nothing even though many citizens including prominent business leaders have
requested action.
Links to the full
evidence
Health
and Injury Insurance Crime Patterns
Website
1 of 10 Introduction and Link (8 sentences)
Obama campaign contributors sign DOJ agreements where no one is being prosecuted for bid rigging and "related fraudulent conduct" and their dangerous crimes
continue !!
Quotes I compiled from
51 Federal Judges prove MetLife and doctors paid by MetLife ignore life
threatening medical conditions (including Multiple Sclerosis, brain lesions,
cardiac conditions and cancer of many patients) Judges also wrote MetLife
conceals documents from patients and MetLife’s attorneys lie in Court if the
patient lives to get to Court.
U.S. District Judge
Richard Enslen wrote “MetLife and its henchmen” because MetLife
also endangers many psychological patients.
You’ll see I asked the
court to stop these crimes and a Federal Judge wrote to me saying the Attorney
General is the only one who has the authority to stop them. Obama and his AG
refuse to take action even though they have received this evidence many times
and they are very aware the patients can die during the years it takes their
claim to be resolved by the Courts !!
Two MetLife executives
gave Obama huge contributions. One year later they signed agreements where no
one is prosecuted for the bid rigging and “related fraudulent conduct”.
The Exhibits prove MetLife continues to ignore life threatening medical conditions and also fabricate pre-existing conditions when patients file claims on the policies that MetLife rigged bids to sell !!
Unum and Prudential also rigged bids exactly like MetLife did !!
This is a small portion of the crimes you’ll see MetLife and other insurance companies commit repeatedly and simultaneously !!
The Exhibits prove MetLife continues to ignore life threatening medical conditions and also fabricate pre-existing conditions when patients file claims on the policies that MetLife rigged bids to sell !!
Unum and Prudential also rigged bids exactly like MetLife did !!
This is a small portion of the crimes you’ll see MetLife and other insurance companies commit repeatedly and simultaneously !!
That is the
introduction you’ll see in the full evidence posted at:
The Obama bribery evidence is seen in Exhibit A of
that website OR FIVE SENTENCES BELOW you can immediately link to the DOJ bid rigging agreement and see Obama contributor’s
historical signatures and “related fraudulent conduct”.
URGENT !! If you go there now please quickly understand the bribery so you can come back here and view the evidence of MetLife and multiple insurance companies continuing deadly crimes when very sick patients file claims on the policies the insurance companies rigged bids to sell !! You'll also see nine more patterns of crimes Obama protects :
To immediately see all the links to DOJ
documents with the contributors signatures and links to the contributions to Obama please view :
Website 2 Introduction
and Link
Injured Workers
throughout America are having their lives destroyed and committing suicide
often because the DOL and DOJ Directors appointed by Obama and Bush protect
insurance company crimes !!
Please view :
** As you see more deadly patterns please remember 20% of the evidence is from national award winning media stories I compiled and 80% is from personal research over many years. The media stories do not stop the crimes. This compilation of years of personal research and individual news stories prove multiple patterns of deadly crimes.
Website 3
Introduction and Link
Civilian contractors who are injured while supporting our troops in U.S War Zones are being denied artificial limbs and medical treatment and having their lives destroyed by insurance company manslaughter because the DOL and DOJ Directors appointed by Obama and Bush protect insurance company crimes !!
Civilian contractors who are injured while supporting our troops in U.S War Zones are being denied artificial limbs and medical treatment and having their lives destroyed by insurance company manslaughter because the DOL and DOJ Directors appointed by Obama and Bush protect insurance company crimes !!
Please view :
Website 4 Introduction
and Link
Obama's DOL and DOJ
Ignore Their Sworn Duty to Protect Patients in Five Types of Insurance
Please view :
Urgent
Note Followed By More Crime Patterns
The DOJ and DOL
Directors appointed by Democrat and Republican Presidents have
done nothing to stop the tremendous torture and death of thousands of sick and
dying Americans every year !!
The big difference right
now is I discovered two MetLife Executives actually gave Obama huge
contributions, and then they signed page 5 of the official DOJ agreements where
no one was prosecuted for bid rigging and “related fraudulent conduct”.
Overwhelming evidence
proves that before, during, and after the Non
Prosecution Agreement for bid rigging was signed MetLife ignored life
threatening medical evidence when patients filed claims on these
policies.
The DOL and DOJ
Directors will not lift one finger to stop MetLife from ignoring life
threatening conditions !!
Any legislator who
refuses to stop these crimes are accessories to mass manslaughters and murders
that are as evil as any in the history of the world !! Many sick and dying
patients are suffering tremendously while knowing the U.S. government is
willfully ignoring mass manslaughter committed against medical patients !!
Website 5 Introduction
and Link
Many Drug Makers and
Doctors Engage in Identical Fraud and Kickbacks and Put Patients at Risk With
Illegal Off-Label Marketing and False Statements About Many Drugs Safety.
No One Was Prosecuted by the Obama administration !!
Please view :
Website 6 Introduction
and Link
Blue Shield and Health
Net Illegally Cancelled Entire Policies When Very Sick Patients Filed Claims !!
Evidence quotes include :
“Bonuses were paid
in part for how many policies were cancelled and how much money was saved as a
result”
No One Was Prosecuted
by the Obama administration !!
The fines are often a
small percentage of the profits !!
Please view :
Drug Murder Money
Laundering Crime Patterns
Website 7 Introduction
and Link
Wachovia Bank
Laundered $378 Billion for the Mexican Drug Cartels That Have Murdered 50,000
people and Are Now Kidnapping and Recruiting Young U.S. children!!
No one was prosecuted By Obama’s DOJ !!
The $378 Billion laundered is enough money to fund the entire ten year war in Afghanistan twice or half of the entire Iraq war !!
The world’s richest man Carlos Helu is worth $69 billion.
Wachovia laundered five times more money than that for one of the most evil groups in world history, BUT NO ONE WAS PROSECUTED !!!!!!!!!!!
Obama, Hillary Clinton and Many Candidates Have Received Large Contributions From Wachovia and Wells Fargo Bank That Bought Wachovia !!
No one was prosecuted By Obama’s DOJ !!
The $378 Billion laundered is enough money to fund the entire ten year war in Afghanistan twice or half of the entire Iraq war !!
The world’s richest man Carlos Helu is worth $69 billion.
Wachovia laundered five times more money than that for one of the most evil groups in world history, BUT NO ONE WAS PROSECUTED !!!!!!!!!!!
Obama, Hillary Clinton and Many Candidates Have Received Large Contributions From Wachovia and Wells Fargo Bank That Bought Wachovia !!
Bank of America laundered
$3 Billion from one branch. No one was prosecuted !!
Please view :
Financial
Crime Patterns
Website 8 Introduction
and Link
Goldman Sachs, Bank of
America, JP Morgan Chase, Magnetar and many more helped crash the U.S. and
world economy by engaging in the following identical crimes :
(1) Combining loans that were likely to fail into
packages known as collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs
(2) They fraudulently misrepresented the ratings
of these bundled loans as being top rated A+ loans and sold the CDO’s to
investors
(3) At the same time they placed financial bets
that these bundles would fail (these reverse bets are referred to as shorting
in the government documents below)
(4) They reaped huge profits and commissions from
everything just mentioned!!
(5) This played a huge part in the U.S. and global
financial collapse, and hundreds of millions of lives are being destroyed
because of this.
No one is being
prosecuted !!
For the full evidence
please view :
Website 9 Introduction
and Link
AIG, JP
Morgan, JPMorgan Chase, Prudential, MetLife, and Unum Commit Identical
Crimes !!
No One is Prosecuted
by Obama’s DOJ, DOL, and SEC Directors. Many Dangerous Crimes Continue !!
Website 10
Introduction and Link
All the corporations
in the long list below (including Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citi Bank,
Wells Fargo, and GMAC) settled for identical violations including :
(a) providing false or
misleading information to consumers (b) misrepresenting to borrowers (c)
failing to provide accurate and timely information to borrowers (d)
misrepresenting the identity, office, or legal status of the affiant (e)
inappropriately charging servicing document creation
Here’s a link to 32
more Non Prosecution agreements given in 2010. If you scroll down to page three
and look in the second column you’ll see how many of the crimes are health care
or financial fraud and kickbacks !!
I have similar lists
for 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The lists prove many corporations are very aware
they can violate health care and bid rigging laws. They are certain they will
never be prosecuted !!
I request each section
of the evidence I’m presenting will be considered as criminal evidence
individually and combined !!
Every day Congress
delays will cause many more lives to be destroyed !!!!
Contacts
I pray you will have everyone you know call and leave a message
for Congresswoman Blackburn’s assistant Margaret Tipton at 202-225-2811 and
request an immediate investigation and prosecution regarding the evidence I
submitted.
You can also email the
following list and request an investigation :
whistleblower@judiciary-rep.senate.gov;
marsha.blackburn@mail.house.gov; erin@issaforcongress.com;
w3parker@mail.house.gov; hotline@oig.dol.gov; oig.hotline@usdoj.gov
Citizen’s support
is the only reason my complaint on State Senator Ford moved forward to his
conviction. Your action and prayers to stop these deadly patterns of corporate
crimes are needed right now !!
Conclusion Part One
Please view all the evidence links above before reading this
conclusion.
Obama’s DOL and DOJ
directors are completely ignoring patterns of fraudulent misrepresentation,
fraudulent restraint, fraud by omissions, mail and wire fraud, reckless
endangerment and manslaughter that are being committed against very sick and
dying patients and injured Americans !!
They are pretending
no one is damaged by the violations while in fact many lives are being
destroyed !!
They are pretending
huge crimes are not worth prosecuting or are not crimes at all.
Many sick and dying
patients are suffering tremendously while knowing the U.S. government is
willfully ignoring the patterns of crimes that are being committed aginst them
!! The DOJ and DOL Directors appointed by Democrat and
Republican Presidents have done nothing to stop the
tremendous torture and death of thousands of sick and dying Americans every
year !!
Fines don’t stop the deadly crimes !!
i. The fines are often a small percentage of the profits the
corporations make on crimes that are often potentially deadly.
ii. The corporate
leaders continue committing more identical crimes because they feel certain
they will never be prosecuted !!
iii. The government
often says the fine money will be used to prevent additional crimes but they
know that’s not working !!
iv. They rarely use the
money to help citizens who whose lives were destroyed by the crimes. Where does
all the fine money go ????
v. “Too big to fail”
is a fraudulent statement to allow large corporations that make huge campaign
contributions to continue violating laws and endanger thousands of Americans
every year !!
Conclusion Part Two
Bill Moyers show on PBS has had many prominent speakers in the
last three months who repeatedly say our future is being stolen by Plutocrats
who have no human conscience. Citizens have been trained to believe there is
nothing they can do.
Here are two
examples
BILL MOYERS asked :
Was Washington
then, and is it now, the biggest con game going?
MARTY KAPLAN said :
“It is the biggest
con game going. And the stakes are enormous. And the effort to regulate them is
hopeless, because the very people who are in charge of regulating them are the
same people who are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the lobbies that run them.”
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02062009/transcript1.html
GLENN GREENWALD said this on Moyers show :
“I think that clearly, the opinion-making elites and the political elites are generally insulated from the level of anxiety and economic threat that millions and millions of Americans are facing in the most extreme fashion since the Great Depression, as the cliché goes.”
“At the same time, I think the problem is, is that the citizenry has really been trained to believe that they're impotent when it comes to demanding action from the political class.”
That’s a small percentage of similar quotes from Bill Moyers show.
Those quotes are being heard on Public television.
I appreciate the reporting but there should be much more urgency in the discussion. We need to stick to the facts, be polite and do everything legally in making our demands, but time is running out quickly !!
GLENN GREENWALD said this on Moyers show :
“I think that clearly, the opinion-making elites and the political elites are generally insulated from the level of anxiety and economic threat that millions and millions of Americans are facing in the most extreme fashion since the Great Depression, as the cliché goes.”
“At the same time, I think the problem is, is that the citizenry has really been trained to believe that they're impotent when it comes to demanding action from the political class.”
That’s a small percentage of similar quotes from Bill Moyers show.
Those quotes are being heard on Public television.
I appreciate the reporting but there should be much more urgency in the discussion. We need to stick to the facts, be polite and do everything legally in making our demands, but time is running out quickly !!
Meridith McGehee of the Campaign Legal Center was recently on
C-Span talking about the Plutocracy that controls the world.
You may think you are not being affected by these crimes
personally. I think you are wrong. I believe we all have a front row seat
watching the destruction of the poor and middle class.
It is a slow destruction for many people so they are doing nothing now, but there are also many lives on fire now !!
It is a slow destruction for many people so they are doing nothing now, but there are also many lives on fire now !!
There is the myth that there is nothing we can do. If enough
citizens make demands to their representatives they will take action !!
If Obama and the
Democrats and Republicans who claim to be Christians are really Christians, or
have any goodness in them at all, then they need to stop ignoring the
widespread destruction of lives that is being caused by patterns of crimes
committed by very rich people who shower them with lobbying money and campaign
contributions. Our elected officials have a spiritual and legal fiduciary duty
to enforce the laws and I believe they are grossly failing to do so. I believe
some of the financial crimes should also be investigated as manslaughter
because so many lives have been destroyed. I feel certain many people have
committed suicide because of the corporate crimes that have devastated our
national and world economies!!
I pray God will
cause them to understand the tremendous suffering they are enabling so they
will immediately stop these overwhelming patterns of crimes within crimes !!
God please help us all !!
Sincerely,
Barry Schmittou
Addendum For
Investigators
A criminal investigation can easily access much more
evidence!! Less than one percent of cases are
posted on the internet !! I found most of this evidence by advance searching
google after having surgery on both eyes. An investigator with campaign finance
research skills will find many more contributions than I have. I have to read
things over and over to comprehend; I have many bloody falls and accidents
including almost knocking myself out multiple times by walking into sharp edged
door frames etc. These problems are often increased by reading and typing.
An honest investigator will easily see the patterns of crimes
and they’ll see many lives are being destroyed every year. That’s the only
reason I was able to painfully compile this evidence and repeatedly present it
for many years to everyone possible in every way possible.
As mentioned the
media stories do not stop the crimes. They will be investigated as criminal
evidence if justice prevails !!
New Developments in
Ford’s Case
The evidence I
filed that led to Senator Ford’s conviction was first revealed by the Memphis
Commercial Appeal Newspaper. In the complaint I compared the media sources to
applicable laws. The Federal Jury determined that Ford violated numerous laws
and he was convicted and sentenced to 14 years. There have been new
developments regarding Ford and that case may go to the Supreme Court.
Ford has already
served prison time and left office so I may choose not to do anything further
regarding Ford.
I do have evidence
that proves Ford completely reversed his opinion after he illegally received
$237,000. I believe that proves bid rigging and it should be considered in the
appeals process.
Here’s a WMC-TV
article including quotes from the evidence I presented. The article can be
linked at :
“State Senator John
Ford is against changing TennCare's dental program. Months later he's all for
it. Why the dramatic turnabout? There's a request for a Federal Grand Jury
investigation into Senator John Ford. The request comes after audio tapes from
senate committee meetings show a very sharp flip-flop by Senator Ford. Why did
Senator Ford have such a sudden change of heart on TennCare's dental program?”
“Barry Schmittou
arrived at the U.S. Attorneys office in Nashville Monday, delivering an urgent
request to create a federal grand jury to look into John Ford's consulting with
TennCare linked companies.”
“Schmittou's opinion
is that legislators like Ford are getting money they shouldn't. Schmittou said,
"To the point that their vote is being greatly influenced, I think
companies that do biz with the state of Tennessee understand if they do not
spend money on the legislators, they're not gonna get the contract."
In fact, Schmittou
points to a May of 2001 committee meeting in Nashville. John Ford stood firmly
against separating dental services from the rest of TennCare. A so-called
"carve-out" of the dental program.
Ford said, "To
carve out the dental programs for the MCOs. What sense does that make? And you
set up a separate thing for it. It's not gonna decrease the cost of the dental
services. Why would we recommend something like that.?" Ford clearly
states that overhauling the dental program won't save money. Ford was so
adamant against change or the carve-out he seemed to get flustered at one
point. "I'm gonna tell you I'm at a loss to ask a question on this because
I don't want to sound funny. This is very serious business to me."
But seven months
later a consulting firm that has since paid Ford at least $237,000 began
representing Doral Dental. Four months after that, in April of 2002, Ford
completely changed his tone, and was then fighting for carving out the dental
program. "And I'm trying to point out to you the reason why TennCare
should carve out the dental program because it can be done for about a dollar
per head."
Remember, Ford said
the carve-out would not save TennCare money. 11 months later he said, "The
carve-out will save the program millions of dollars. I certainly hope so. I
know it will. I know it will. It's just that my vision on this might be a little
keener than most folks, but it will."
Doral Dental won that
$18-million carve-out contract to manage TennCare's dental program. After they
got the contract, they began making payments to Managed Care Services Group
Inc. That company has paid Senator Ford $237,000. Action News 5 called Senator
Ford's office in Nashville, but have not hear back from him.
(end of quotes from
WMC-TV)
Sincerely,
Barry Schmittou
email -
barryschmittou@live.com
