AIG vs. Medicare

The new present and Congress are under a lot of pressure to clean up a lot of messes. The fact that most of these messes started long ago and far away under other administrations is somewhat irrelevant. The main issue is that right now, the economy is in a mess and it is affecting a lot of things, not the least of which is Medicare.

AIG has long been a staple in the financial area. The main problem is that as the government continues to try to shore up medicare, help it go further and help it assist more people who depend on Medicare benefits to stay healthy - or even stay alive - AIG has been finding ways to get money in sneaky and unscrupulous ways over and over. In addition, AIG has managed to get millions and milllions of dollars from the government to keep runing, because AIG is connected to tons of financial institutions that everyone seems to be worried will go under if AIG does, since AIG is the sugar mama.

The latest information on AIG after they have taken plenty of money to continue operating, they have been and continue to pass out millions in bonuses and "retention" money, as well as tell the overnment and everyone who will listen that this is someting they must do and that "legally" they can't get out of the situation.

Meanwhile, Medicare is struggling to take care of those other millions of people - you know, the ones wh depend on them to get o stay healthy. Lawmakers and the president are doing all they can to get Medicare on more stable fotting. The unfortunate thing is that this whole mess started in preious adminisrations and
for the most part, until this administration there has been little effort to really examine AIG or Medicare.

The Obama administration has made its share of mistakes and misjudgements, however, let's be fair - they inherited a miss that has been growing and growing, as well as getting messier. more complicated and more sinister over the previous years. Now it is up to the current administration to get this fixed. At least this administration is really trying to get it right. There are some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle that are trying to put bipartisanship aside and work on these urgent issues.

If the rest of the lawmakers could simply put their partisinship aside and worry aboutfixing the problems rather than blaming people, a lot coud be fixed faster. Things will get fixed, there will be mistakes and oversights along the way, and these, also, will be ixed.

It's time to continue trying to make Medicare run as it should and stop shoveling money to corporations who are - and have been - using it on unncessary luxuries while those who are struggling can't even get basic, decent medical care.

It will take some time, and at east for the first time in nearly a decade, there is a trye effort to fix these issues and put the oney where it should be. Now, if we could just get everyone to stop playing the blame game and clean up the mess, things would go faster and and definitely turn out better.

Filed under: General-Medicare

Tags: AIG, Fixing Medicare, General-Medicare, medicare benefits