Meet MAXIMUS – the new ATOS (but even worse)
(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
Here’s one that got in under the radar.
The coalition government has chosen a VERY controversial US private company to run its new health assessment service to be called the Health and Work Service.
In less than 2 months time any employee who is sick enough to have to claim sick leave from work for more than 4 weeks will be assessed – mostly by phone – by employees of a US firm called MAXIMUS.
Apart from the ludicrous assumption that sick people can be assessed over the telephone, for some reason, when the UK government decided to hand the lucrative contract to run the service over to MAXIMUS, they also decided to ignore the numerous scandals involving the company in the US.
Here are just a few examples:
Lawmakers lash out at Maximus for questionable expenses payments
Medical workers allowed to keep practising despite failing drug, alcohol tests
Managers File Race Discrimination Complaints Against Maximus Inc
Federal Agency Finds Workfare Contractor Violated Wage Law
Maximus Pay $50,000 for Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Maximus Settles Fraud Case for $30.5 Million
Consultant’s advice could cost state tens of millions
Maximus settles Medicaid complaint
$2.5 Million Settlement Of Contract Dispute Over Computer System Update
Auditors: State owes $22.8 million for improper Medicaid billings
MAXIMUS also likes to give a LOT of money to right-wing politicians in the US – especially ones who are keen to hand over massive state or federal contracts to it.
Why is it that politicians in the UK always seem to LOVE copying all the worst aspects of US politics?
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Thanks to DPAC and specifically Anita Bellows and George Berger for the heads up on this.
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Source: https://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/meet-maximus-the-new-atos-but-even-worse/
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