Governor of a big state uses his powers to help a key aide hide thuggery against a woman, said governor also using the police to nudge the woman into being, shall we say, a bit more cooperative. What century are we in?
Well, the New York Times piece involving Paterson has dropped and it’s as bad as it gets. Stick a fork in him, this guy is finished.
If you haven’t read the previous pieces, you need to begin with acquainting yourself with David W. Johnson.
Mr. Johnson, 37, has also on three occasions been involved in altercations with women, two of which led to calls to the police. As recently as October, the police responded to a complaint of harassment at a Bronx address of a woman involved with him. It is unclear if the altercation was verbal or physical or both, but the case is listed as closed.
Mr. Johnson has a history of repeated problems with aggression towards women, which Gov. Paterson has dismissed, because he believes in him. The latest is not going to go away, with Paterson’s reported behavior unethical and immoral.
Last fall, a woman went to court in the Bronx to testify that she had been violently assaulted by a top aide to Gov. David A. Paterson, and to seek a protective order against the man.
In the ensuing months, she returned to court twice to press her case, complaining that the State Police had been harassing her to drop it. The State Police, which had no jurisdiction in the matter, confirmed that the woman was visited by a member of the governor’s personal security detail.
Then, just before she was due to return to court to seek a final protective order, the woman got a phone call from the governor, according to her lawyer. She failed to appear for her next hearing on Feb. 8, and as a result her case was dismissed. …
In the Times piece today, the reporting is clear that Johnson has been protected, but also that the woman now involved is obviously scared due to the powers involved in the case. Paterson has championed Johnson, promoting him higher and closer to power.
The woman was allegedly choked, with Johnson beating her.
She told the police that Mr. Johnson, who is 6-foot-7, had choked her, stripped her of much of her clothing, smashed her against a mirrored dresser and taken two telephones from her to prevent her from calling for help, according to police records.
The woman was twice granted a temporary order of protection against Mr. Johnson, according to the proceedings in Family Court in the Bronx.
“I’m scared he’s going to come back,” she said, according to the proceedings, in which a court referee at the initial hearing noted bruises on the woman’s arm.
But Gov. Paterson judged that Johnson didn’t have a problem with women, because he had “grown significantly over the years,” as the Times reports it.
Ask any expert, domestic violence is not self-treatable. It certainly doesn’t go away when you have powerful males like the governor of New York protecting you.
Paterson has suspended Johnson without pay, asking the AG to investigate.
So, this nightmare just landed on Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo’s lap.
This report is so damning, with others alleging Paterson called the woman just before her case went to trial, according to her lawyer, though it’s also being alleged she called him, Gov. Paterson may not survive politically.
Chill man, do not dismay, like calm down, be cool. Be of good cheer..
I am everyman and I tripped over, stepped in, or more precisely accidentally discovered a tiny gas leak in the billing department of both my Health Services Foundation and University Health System. The leak has been going on for a long time and the people responsible for billing policy cannot smell it anymore. The have become ignorant of it’s presence.
Any person engaged with a city county or municipality Social Services Department, and is on Medicaid Spend Down (a requirement to document expenses applicable to his or her “Medicaid SPEND DOWN”, every 6 Months, when that is met the person qualifies for full Medicaid Coverage.
“destitute beyond poor.”
Some of those people that are clients of their SS Dept., and are on Medicaid Spend Down are in EMINENT MEDICAID SPEND DOWN within 3 -6 months. If they were billed only once for a new service each month, rather than to keep billing for that service repeatedly, the bill that must be sent to SS Dept to apply to MEDICAID SPEND DOWN need only be sent one time.. So each and every bill sent that repeats the previous new bill costs only $4.99 to process and send. A mere pittance you say? Each bill after the first is nothing but absolutely pure, and accidentally , by oversight, and not recognizing a definite pattern and group set has, cost the entire health care system a fair pile of cash.
Enough in fact to enable
Free Universal Health Care for all Person Residing or visiting the USA
EVEN the Undocumented
That is just who we are, and what we do, when we are at our best.
I repeat ALREADY PAID FOR NOW. That sound imposable, NOT.
For example
To find out more go to http://www.you gotta’bekiddin’menoI’mnot.org
(hello again)
I Repeat, For Example,
$4.99 per second and monthly bills thereafter, until they stop aging the account, or send it to collections at additional expense/loss. Times a low estimate of 5 bills in the three months, double for six months. Lets use $25 total for three months for both Doctor and Hospital. times 10% of 220,000 patients from a population of 692,000 Outpatient events, and 28,000 inpatient events (I am allowing for repeat admissions and multiple clinical visits.) that is 20,000 EMINENT MEDICAID SPEND DOWN patients served per year. I am only considering a 3 -6 month window.
20,000 x $25 = One half million dollars ! ! A $500,000 gas leak that no one can smell any more, and if it is not fixed ASAP It will be Morsely, [...\....\..\.] per year to infinity and beyond.
At one Health care facility in one city in one state.
How many hospitals accept Medicaid Patients in the U S A and it’s territories and protectorates?
Lets say there is an average of 50 hospitals that Bill Medicare per STATE that average the size and scope of my example (data sources on request), times 50 states, the last time I counted.
Well that comes to 2,500 Hospital averaging 20,000 Patients Annually equals 50,000,000 patients.
The total population of the U S is, I’M guessing, 333,000,000.
OK 10% of 50,000,000 is FIVE MILLION EMINENT MEDICAID SPEND DOWN PATIENTS?SS CLIENTS. TIMES $25 for a 3 – 6 month period = leaking slowly out of the billing dept.
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In one year, that is: $1.25 Billion
Personally I have received in a three month period, 8 new bills and 6 aged bills.
a monthly bill from another separate health care service.
And a monthly bill for weekly sessions for 6 more bills.
not 10 in three months more like 20
DOUBLE
$1.25 Billion =
Two Hundred and fifty Billion
only counting two 6 Months of Eminent Spend Down periods, but based on 3 months of billing
Double Again
$500,000,000,000
And it is much more likely that it is 20% of the patient population, not 10%
D O U B L E A G A I N
now were cooking
$1,000,000,000,000 in accidental waste each and every year.
For a decade that comes to a grand total of TEN TRILLION DOLLARS
. FREE, prepaid.
Deficit, what deficit
. I wonder how many jobs this will begin to create and allow us to Move on to a myriad of other very important things. I’m thinking having fun and depositing “Banksters”, but that’s another day.
If it does not stop tomorrow it will be a crime.
Too much gas in a contained space, lucky it ‘s a Hospital, they have grounding outlets,that do not spark(ground first, disconnect last), but for that it would have exploded long ago.
An average 16 year old could make the adjustments necessary in less than a day. Also if the payee or vendor sent the bill by eMail (With a consent form , (signed and returned to activate the process) and a copy of the bill eMailed to the payor, or by snail, only once. Additionally this saves the time the MEDICAID SPEND DOWN client of SS takes to mail to the VERIFYING DOCUMENTS DEPARTMENT, and for them to scan the documents into the computer.
Less work. More productivity!..
Less work and more productivity
Meeting spend Down is easy for the EMINENT MEDICAID SPEND DOWN clients.
.
‘please check the I accept circle O I take responsibility for this debt and there is no need to age my account.
I have sent a copy of this bill to my County SS Office.to apply to my SPEND DOWN. And I am reporting my awareness of each new bill to you.
Simply
A copy of this bill that you have just received,
either by eMail or Postal Service, FedEx, or UPS, messenger, carrier pigeon and like that,.
has been sent to your County SS Department to be applied to your:
EMINENT MEDICAID SPEND DOWN
Thank you and have a nice day.
Regards, your Health Service
This will be your only bill because of your
Eminent Spend Down status,
in that because of worsening conditions, etc,
your medical expenses
will exceed your Spend Down
within a 3 -6 month period.
.
Happy Easter everybody,
love, everyman,
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Taylor and all marshpeople, after all y’all awaken tomorrow, if you have time, would you raise objections or challenge my math re my 1;51 post. ? If you have any extra time please closely examine the logic of the fix. Freely criticize it in any way. I did not make this up.
It was given to everyone and I have volunteered to make it known ASAP.
F o o t n o t e s
I will not fear to pursue the truth, wheresoever it may lead me, and I shall err and err again and again, knowing, with dogged determination, that my success is at hand. Thos Jefferson paraphrase
Be Indefatigable. Sermon of Grochan Gunn
We will never give up, we will never give in, we will never surrender. W. Churchill paraphrase ?
Lean not to thine own understanding, and trust in the Lord in all thy ways, and He will direct thiy paths, thus.
success is assured. Corinthians KJV
After I’ve nothing better to do.
Taylor and all marshpeople, after all y’all awaken tomorrow, if you have time, would you raise objections or challenge my math re my 1;51 post. ? If you have any extra time please closely examine the logic of the fix. Freely criticize it in any way. I did not make this up.
It was given to everyone and I have volunteered to make it known ASAP.
F o o t n o t e s
I will not fear to pursue the truth, wheresoever it may lead me, and I shall err and err again and again, knowing, with dogged determination, that my success is at hand. Thos Jefferson paraphrase
Be Indefatigable. Sermon of Grochan Gunn
We will never give up, we will never give in, we will never surrender. W. Churchill paraphrase ?
Lean not to thine own understanding, and trust in the Lord in all thy ways, and He will direct thiy paths, thus.
success is assured. Corinthians KJV
After all I’ve nothing better to do.
oops
If all of this has indeed happened, then the Governor should step out of the way because there is no way he will win. Basically, the woman, in addition to be beaten up, is being harrassed not to testify – by the Governor or his staff. Andrew Cuomo can win and maybe he should be the Democratic candidate for NYS governor.
good morning lynnette – we’re snowed in here.
I read this awhile ago. It was like a blurb somewhere and at the time my only thought was that these allegations are going to escalate which as we see has happened. This is going to be a big negative for Pattersen in addition to his other problems. In this day and age, especially in the state of NY I don’t know how a governor could allow this to happen. The fact that he pooh-poohed these incidents is proof to me that Pattersen could care less about violence towards women and to him it’s no big deal. I’m with Taylor–he’s finished for all intents and purposes.
Hasn’t he already been “forgiven” by NY voters for drug use and mutiple infidelities?I just don’t quite get his gall in believing he can run?
Hello JA and Lake Lady,
We’re snowed in, too, JA. Schools are closed today – our first snow day this year. We’ve really had a mild winter until now. I like Paterson but there is no way he can be elected with all of “this” swirling around him. I agree with you.
Hey lynnette.
Would love for you to come up to the health care summit thread & weigh in, if you feel so inclined.
25 February 2010 at 1:51 am R. I P.