President Obama Gets Healthcare Proposal of Former Fil-Am Mayor |
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Thursday, 16 June 2011 16:26 | |||
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2011 Journal Group Link International) Former Milan, Michigan Mayor J. Owen R. Diaz told this reporter in an e-mail that he received June 15 an ordinary, first-class mail letter with 44-cent stamp from President Obama with an embossed logo of the White House, saying, “Dear Owen, Thank you for taking the time to share your ideas. I appreciate hearing from you. “Our Nation faces serious challenges, and we will only overcome them by involving all Americans in shaping the policies that affect their own lives. “My Administration is continuously working to engage individuals in innovative ways. I encourage you to explore www.WhiteHouse.gov, which is regularly updated and more interactive than ever before. “Thank you again for contacting me and providing your thoughtful suggestions. Sincerely, (Signed) Barack Obama.” “I can’t believe it,” Mr. Diaz said, “President Obama just wrote me a letter of appreciation with original signature and addressing me as ‘Owen’, a pleased Mr. Diaz wrote a letter to President Obama last January, proposing to save more than $30-billion over the next five years in his healthcare program. Perhaps, thinking that his letter might have been buried from among a pile of hundreds of letters that Mr. Obama receives, Mr. Diaz still held out hope that he gets notice. $6,740 SAVING FROM EACH An inventor and Certified Financial Planner by profession, Mr. Diaz, whose wife is a medical doctor, based his estimate on the “net average Medicare savings to the The 64-year-old Diaz, who helped “address a budget deficit and implemented reduction in the property tax” when he was mayor of He said, “If only an estimated 10-15% of the 65 – and-over FBRs take advantage of this opportunity, the estimated total Medicare savings from this proposal, according to the statistical inference for the said seven referenced countries in the year 2011 alone, is between $2,787,414,620 and $4,181,118,560. Over five years, this savings increases to between 22-billion and 30-billion dollars.” ATTENDING PICC CONVENTION He said he might share his Medicare proposal in Mr. Diaz was informed about the event by his fellow Eric Lachica, a proponent of a ‘US Medicare Portability Proposal,” said he is considering his group hooking up with Mr. Diaz’ health care proposal. M r. Diaz, who is administrator for an Urgent Care Clinic and presently managing a Mental Health Clinic, said, “The estimated overall savings can be much more, if we use the figures applying the relative medical procedure costs and further considering the enormous "end-of-life" health care cost, the estimated overall savings could be even significantly greater if the proposal were to be extended to non-FBRs who elected to live abroad in the cited countries or in other countries that may qualify to have Medicare attachés in the future.” Citing the Congressional Budget Office, Mr. Diaz said, in June 2010, the federal budget deficit is “going to get much worse and become unsustainable because of cost increases in Medicare and Medicaid. This proposal can bring about net savings of an estimated 50% per Most medical procedures in the The proposed adjustment in benefit coverage takes into consideration the logistical and administrative costs of providing coverage to FBRs, while providing significant savings to the The bottom line is that with the passing of the healthcare reform legislation, which seeks to increase access to medical care by more covered people, this proposal will serve to “relieve pressure on our limited health care providers in the United States, restrain costs and, most importantly, provide relief to the tax-payers of the United States.” According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2011, there will be 4,135,626 FBRs 65 and over, from If 10% of these FBRs will return to their country of origin, the U.S. Medicare savings will be $2.9-billion and if 15%, savings will be $4.1-billion. # # # Editor’s Note: To contact the author, please e-mail him at: (lariosa_jos@sbcglobal.net)
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