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Posted on 05/23/2026 4:52:47 AM PDT by Libloather
When it comes to policing New York’s sprawling Medicaid program, Attorney General Letitia James has some explaining to do.
As AG, James runs the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which is charged with prosecuting those who rip off the taxpayer-funded program or neglect and abuse its vulnerable patients.
It ought to be a busy place, considering New York spends far more per capita on Medicaid than any other state.
Yet on her watch the unit has been posting metrics that range from lackluster to surprisingly low, especially when measured against the scale of a $119 billion social program.
**SNIP**
As a two-term incumbent Democrat in a thoroughly blue state, James might get away with ducking her political opponent’s questions.
But she can’t evade the review recently ordered by the inspector general of the US Department of Health and Human Services, T. March Bell — not, at least, without putting federal aid in jeopardy.
“Noncompliance with your MFCU obligations can take your State’s entire Medicaid program out of compliance,” Bell warned in a May 13 letter to attorneys general nationwide.
“This means your failure to do your job as head of the MFCU has put all of your State’s Medicaid funds in jeopardy.”
One way or another, James will have to defend — or at least explain — the underwhelming performance of her anti-fraud unit, and that should be interesting to watch.
Federal statistics over the past five years show that New York’s MFCU logged almost 3,000 investigations for fraud, abuse and neglect, which was the sixth-highest number in the country.
That doesn’t sound so bad until you consider that New York’s Medicaid budget is the second-highest in the country.
In terms of investigations per billion spent, New York’s unit ranked 48th out of the 50 states.
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The guys who run Medicaid nursing homes have managed to take control of the NY state legislature. Yes, Sheldon Silver is no longer in charge, but it’s still pretty much the same thing. As long as the legislature is completely corrupt, nothing is going to change. They reply on money derived from Medicaid payments to pay for their campaigns.
ALL government programs are targets of fraud to fund Democrat politicians and criminals( but I repeat myself...).
Gee, Wally! Wonder where they “Leared” that?
The government needs to hire a lot more accountants. A lot.
And half of the accountants ought to do nothing but audit the other accountants. And penalties for bureaucratic fraud ought to be incredibly severe.
And I’ll say it: black women should not be allowed to manage government money.
I have come to believe that the Dem party will collapse when the fraud is stopped. And that the maniacal reach for power via illegal invaders is all about greed, unchecked.
Ha! She’s in the club, she’ll be fine.
AKA Cloward-Piven. Collapse the government by collapsing its Treasury with its own social programs.
(”Regulating the Poor”, by Cloward-Piven)
Like all liberals everything is mine.
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