Posted on 10/28/2011 8:09:54 AM PDT by 92nina
...According to today’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Costa
told House Republican lawmakers that officials examined cases over a three-month period and found thousands of Medicaid cases that should have been closed under existing state laws. He contended that previous administrators failed to consistently monitor eligibility and enforce regulations.
It is believed that the Dept. of Public Welfare can save over a hundred million by cleaning up Medicaid rolls when it is all said and done. It’s both refreshing and good news for Pennsylvania taxpayers that the folks in Gov. Corbett’s administration are rolling up their sleeves, cracking open the books, and cleaning up the mess left over by eight years of Ed Rendell.
Ed Rendell’s tenure as governor is a perfect example of how raising taxes is what politicians do instead of prioritizing spending and imposing necessary reforms. Rendell was too busy pushing for perennial tax increases, funneling cash to corrupt mass transit systems, and burning countless taxpayer dollars on things such as shrines to fellow tax-and-spend Pennsylvania politicians like Arlen Specter and Jack Murtha.
The good news is that there is new management in Harrisburg and Gov. Corbett has tasked capable people like Tim Costa to dig in and clean of the mess left by Rendell. The work being done in Pennsylvania’s Dept. of Public Welfare is a model for other states, and the federal government.
Indeed there is a thing or two the White House could learn from the Corbett administration. Despite Obama’s promise to comb through the budget “line by line” and identify savings during the ’08 campaign, annual federal spending has gone from $2.9 trillion to $3.8 trillion under the Obama administration. As I noted in the Philadelphia Inquirer following the completion of Pennsylvania’s current budget...
Read more: http://www.atr.org/pennsylvania-gov-tom-corbett-continues-clean-a6561#ixzz1c5YTdeNy
(Excerpt) Read more at atr.org ...
Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at Digg and at Reddit and in Stumbleupon and Delicious
Good things happen to states when they turn from blue to red.
Laura Ingraham continues to have Rendell on-air as a guest.
Every time she does, my radio springs an oil leak.
Wasn’t he the DNC General Chairman or something like that once? I guess he’s desperate for any gig he can get.
Corbett has done a fine job as governor so far.
I’m glad we didn’t listen to the idiots on the PA Boards who were against him.
Go read it all - good stuff!
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