Posted on 11/13/2014 4:40:56 AM PST by TurboZamboni
Minnesota human services officials didn't verify that low income people enrolling in health plans through MNsure were eligible for benefits they got, the state legislative auditor said Wednesday.
The state Department of Human Services did not check key eligibility criteria, such as Social Security numbers, citizenship, income, and household sizes for Medical Assistance (Minnesota's Medicaid program), MinnesotaCare, and Children's Health Insurance Program recipients.
That screening breakdown "resulted in ineligible persons receiving public health care benefits," the auditor said in its report.
"They're not getting it right," Legislative Auditor Jim Nobles said.
"We design these systems to make complex eligibility determinations. We spend a lot of money, taking quite a bit of time now, and we ought to be at a point when they can get it right all the time, in every case," he added.
The programs provide low-cost or free health coverage to low-income residents. But the department did not ensure that data "accurately and securely transferred from MNsure into the state's medical payment system."
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And how much of this is intentional... Ineffective controls or deliberate failure to follow instructions facilitates the looting of the public treasury.
It was not an accident! They weren’t getting enough people to sign up.
DISMANTLE the state Department of Human Services. UNaccountable bureaucrats are socialists. Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
Debt per TAXPAYER = $153,271
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
Minnesota state debt per CITIZEN = $9873
http://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-minnesota-debt-clock.html
You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.
To prevent this, you would exclude socialism from entering into the making of laws? You would prevent socialists from entering the Legislative Palace?
/Bastiat
DEPOPULATE socialists/progressives/marxists/totalitarians/RINOS/criminals/liars/POS punks and con men from the body politic.
DEFUND/DISMANTLE their collectives, agencies, departments, ngos.
live - free - republic
C’mon 2016
Thanks. Keep posting these stories about healthcare fraud.
I knew that the growth of popularity of Lacrosse was trouble.
Minnesota Somalians have signed up with ISIS.
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