Posted on 05/03/2016 6:59:12 PM PDT by MtnClimber
A major problem with giving money and power to government is that you seldom get either one back. And when state agencies end up with excess budget, there is no end to clever ways bureaucrats find to keep control over your tax dollars.
The current move to keep unused funds in Colorado’s Indigent Care Program (CICP) from reverting to the state treasury is a case in point.
icon_blog_noteThe ObamaCare Medicaid expansion reduced the number of people eligible for help with acute medical care costs through CICP. The number of people using the program has fallen from 200,000 to 50,000. The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) administers the program, and if it cannot spend all the CICP funds by June 30, 2016, the money reverts to the General Fund.
In order to get the money spent, HCPF and the Colorado Commission on Affordable Healthcare plan to move it out of state government. HCPF will “spend” the money by contracting with the Commission to fund a study. The Commission is an independent entity chartered by state government but operating outside of it. The Commission wants $100,000 to hire a consultant to “assess the level and nature of the uncompensated care in Colorado’s rural areas (‘rural/frontier’) and then to consider a proposal on how to reconfigure CICP to better serve the needs of those communities.”
(Excerpt) Read more at completecolorado.com ...
Games and fun with your money.
Because fun and games is when you get to spend your own money.
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