Posted on 04/12/2025 5:40:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I wonder if there are any government programs that are not full of waste, fraud and abuse.
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That increase is astounding. Sounds like a program that needs to end.
I saw on a Judge Judy episode where she addressed someone who was being paid to take care of a family member - the ‘aide’ just collected money without doing anything for the sick family member.
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Of course there is Medicaid fraud by doctors and patients and insurance scamming lawyers. My uniformed guess is at least 10% fraud that AI can cut out, or if AI can look at five previous year Medicaid figures. Find even more.
With Dems ruling the social welfare spending roost. Assume 10% fraud due to intentional sloppiness, chaos and lack of controls.
I tell you what: if you tell anyone that their place is in the home taking care of family, they all have a fit, and run out to get an education and a job. A couple generations later, you tell them that their duty is to get an education and a job, and they cry that all they want is to stay home and take care of family.
The Mafia doesn’t get to whack that much money OH WAIT they just changes their name.
There is fraud and it's partner in crime waste everywhere.
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Nope. The most important and most classified are the worst because you don’t have a need to know how badly they are run by the leftist loyal bureaucrats who hold positions they are not qualified to hold.
The government!
It manufactured not a single item you can purchase at Walmart.
USA did fine when govt was much smaller.
Now we have 3 million federal workers getting paid more than private sector workers, and 95% of federal building are empty? What a racket!!
....I am very familiar with one state’s Medicaid program - there was a marked increase in billings from podiatrists for foot surgery claims for
procedures done on Medicaid recipients residing in nursing homes...it turned out that a huge number of these claims for really for trimming these recipients’ toenails, and not true foot surgeries....this happens all the time, apparently...
I’m sure the pols and bureaucrats are scraping at least 10% of payouts off the top.
Stop ANY Medicaid payouts to ILLEGAL INVADERS, immediately.
That will cut out at least a third, if not half of this fraud.
I’d like to know how much he’s actually saved us. The figure is all over the place. And I’m still waiting for the debt to go down which is my priority.
I know several people that can’t work a normal job due to the demands of caring for a severely disabled elderly person or child.
The program is a lifesaver for them, and much cheaper than a nurse coming by to visit.
The program is wide open to abuse, especially in states where they are required to join a union to participate (we’re looking you, NY and MI).
The first line of defense will always be the program administrators that admit the participants. Any doubt that MN fraudsters have abused this program as well?
Unions are rackets.
“The Post attributes Governor Hochul’s switch of sides substantially to her buying the support of a health care union known as “Local 1199” (of the SEIU) in the run-up to her re-election campaign next year. Local 1199 hopes to unionize the home health aides to get hundreds of thousands of new dues-paying members, and then to engage in collusive wage negotiations where the bill will be paid substantially by the federal taxpayers. “
You take part of the cost out of the recipient’s Social Security (10% of the monthly SS payment) and say 50 cents an hour from each close relative (sibling, child).
My friend Don in DC had some of these people come in.
Most of the aides were from Africa and vigorous users of cellphones.
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