“Oh, how terrible federal regulations are!” Mr. Romey tells us. Government should just get out of the way so big corporations can do what they do best. And what is that you ask? Well let me sum it up for you:: Lie, cheat and steal money out of the consumers’ pockets. Like for example, this case out where CVS took money of the pockets of anyone covered by Medicare in violation of federal laws and regulations:
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice said Monday that a unit of CVS Caremark Corp. has agreed to pay $5.25 million to settle allegations that it reported false information on prescription drug prices to the government’s Medicare program.
Federal investigators said CVS’ RxAmerica subsidiary reported false information about the prices of generic prescription drugs between 2007 and 2008. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services used this information in a website called Plan Finder, which seniors could use to estimate their out-of-pocket drug expenses. But Department of Justice officials said the actual drug prices offered by the company were “in some cases significantly higher” than those submitted for use on the website.
That’s what in the world of the organized crime would be called fraud and racketeering. Surprised that such a prominent company such as CVS would be cheating Medicare recipients out of who knows how much money? And do you believe that this is just a one time rogue incident? Well, not exactly. It seems just as CVS settled one case of defrauding their customers, another one popped up:
The HHS Office of Inspector General has launched a federal probe into complaints that CVS Caremark refilled patients’ prescriptions and submitted insurance claims without the patients’ knowledge, according to an official familiar with the case, the Los Angeles Times reports. […]
In a separate case last year, CVS agreed to pay $17.5 million to resolve allegations that it falsified Medicaid claims for prescription drugs in California and nine other states.
This is just one Pharmacy chain. Now imagine how much the really big time criminals in Wall Street firms, Big Banks and in the Insurance Industry are stealing from you. And what is Mitt’s “plan” for making our economy grow so you can keep more of your hard earned money? Well, let’s just say, cutting regulations and laws that get in the way of corporations stealing from you earning bigger profits is high on his list of things to do starting day one of any Romney presidency.
But now the regulation-be-damned camp — represented by the Romney campaign — has come up with a “fix” that avoids the messiness of political discussion and debate by sidestepping the democratic process entirely. Never mind the inconvenient fact that Dodd-Frank is the law of the land, and that it is the constitutional duty of the executive branch — to which Republican candidate Mitt Romney aspires — to put it into practice.
Under the would-be president’s plan, agencies would have to eliminate existing regulations in order to implement new ones. Specifically, agencies issuing new regulations would be required to balance the costs of new regulations by identifying offsetting cost reductions in existing regulations. In addition, Congress would have new powers to block regulations that are proposed by the agencies. As Governor Romney’s economic plan affirms, “President Romney will issue an executive order instructing all agencies that they must invite Congress to vote up or down on their major regulations and forbidding them from putting those regulations into effect without congressional approval.”
And of course, the Romney plan is not just limited to financial regulations or health care. Do you like clean air and clean water? Well say goodbye to both if Romney gets elected.
Instead, the debate has focused on whether and how much environmental regulations hurt businesses, especially the energy industry.
Mostly it’s been GOP candidate Mitt Romney criticizing President Obama for what he sees as overzealous environmental regulations that strangle the economic recovery. […]
On the campaign trail, Romney repeatedly says Obama’s regulations are strangling the economic recovery. […]
“A President Romney could starve the agencies of money needed to enforce existing public health safeguards — in effect, take the environmental cop off the beat,” says Dan Weiss, a volunteer adviser to the Obama campaign and a fellow at the action fund for the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank.
So, here’s the deal Romney is offering America:
- Tax cuts for the wealthiest;
- Eliminate Tax Loopholes for the Middle Class;
- Kill off any regulations that corporations don’t like;
- Send your job to China; and
- Hope you die as soon as you run out of money from paying high insurance costs, bank fees, securities fraud, consumer fraud, poor to non-existent healthcare,and living in a dirty, polluted, disease infested environment, so you don’t become one of those “takers” like our vets, disabled people, retired people, poor people, unemployed people, et alia.
So, he’s making you this deal, America. Do you want this deal? Really?
