Posted on 06/28/2011 7:41:48 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
While Rep. Michele Bachmann has forcefully denounced the Medicaid program for swelling the "welfare rolls," the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005, according to new figures obtained by NBC News.
The previously unreported payments are on top of the $24,000 in federal and state funds that Bachmann & Associates, the clinic founded by Marcus Bachmann, a clinical therapist, received in recent years under a state grant to train its employees, state records show. The figures were provided to NBC News in response to a Freedom of Information request.
The $161,000 in payments from the Minnesota Department of Human Services to her husband's clinic appear to contradict some of Michelle Bachmann's public accounts this week when she was first asked about the extent to which her family has benefited from government aid. Contacted this afternoon, Alice Stewart, a spokeswoman for Bachmann, said the congresswoman was doing campaign events and was not immediately available for comment.
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When asked by anchor Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" about the story's assertion that her husband's counseling clinic had also gotten federal and state funds, Bachmann replied that it was "one-time training money that came from the federal government. And it certainly didn't help our clinic."
At another point, she said, "My husband and I did not get the money," adding that it was "mental health training money that went to the employees."
But state records show that Bachmann & Associates has been collecting payments under the Minnesota's Medicaid program every year for the past six years. Karen Smigielski, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services, said the state's Medicaid program is funded "about 50-50" with federal and state monies.
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“Go look for it” does not prove a case.
Try it sometime when you are in court.
>> the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000
The implication being the clinic should refuse the Medicaid patients?
Punk accounting by the Marxist Media.
Sorry, I don't do links.
Enough of this idiocy. Bachmann has 100% lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union.
Claiming she isn't a conservative is absurd and merely a smear tactic against her by people that seem very threatened by her.
WTH, how much did Michelbelle and Axelblob get from the federal and state government when they worked at the University hospital in Illinois? Where their only job there was to make sure no nonpaying poor were admitted.
What an absurd non story. Medicaid is reimbursment for services rendered which no where near pay the full cost of those services. If you are making 1.00 on a 10.00 service you are not making a financial gain. In fact State law probably compels the doctor to accept Medicaid.
If you don't know the facts, doubt other posters' word, go do the research yourself.
NBC is obviously news for retards, written by people who think their audience are retards.
The Medicaide is payment for services rendered - not some wacko leftist grant.
The Left is so far gone they want to make working for a living an evil thing. What trash.
Given that Uncle Sam already pays for 40-50% of all medical expenses in the USA already, there are very few doctors who can survive without seeing some Medicaid patients.
Given that Uncle Sam already pays for 40-50% of all medical expenses in the USA already, there are very few doctors who can survive without seeing some Medicaid patients.
Try about 30% for Medicaid and 50% for Medicare.
What the Crap? Big Hairy Deal. At least he accepts Medicaid patients. Many doctors simply don’t take medicaid or medicare patients, because the government reimpbursement is only about 1/3 of what it should be to cover the cost of treatment.
To give the impression that medicaid or medicare insurance payment for services performed is some kind of state or federal aid to Bachmann & Assoc. is very misleading.
What is he supposed to turn away the poor and only accept private insurance patients? Is that what they are saying?
and i initially said i did NOT like Cain.
but i did honest research, and the more i learned,
the more i was impressed.
maybe what this country NEEDS now,
is a President who is NOT a lawyer or politician,
but a successful real-world business,
with degrees in MATH and COMPUTER SCIENCE.
...wouldn’t that be refreshing!
and initially, i DID like Bachmann.
but i do have an open mind both ways,
and since she hired Rollins,
she has done and said things that changed my mind.
i would like to hear specifically why people here,
think Bachmann is so much better for US President than Cain.
(...besides her saying she is the leader of the Tea Party.)
So if you get $137,000 over 5 years, then you have probably lost about $250,000.
And a lot of cultists, including some FReepers, are more than willing to help out the MSM in their attempts.
Ah, you beat me to it.
I was wondering if there were two different things, one a grant and the other medicare payments.
Or, sometimes grants are dispersed over a period of time rather than all at once.
Let’s not let the liberal/socialist lying sack of s@@@ media put us constantly on the defensive.
She should answer their accusations truthfully and fully and let us then decide what is what.
I thought dear Michelle said she didn’t receive government money?
However deserved?
That seems to be the issue, doesn’t it? That she said something knowing full well that it was stretching the facts?
I vaguely remember that is called misrepresentation. Though I’m sure there is some explanation for it.
In God’s time, all will be revealed.
Hey, Isokoff, you dumbass, most doctors, especially those who accept low income patients are REQUIRED to accept Medicaid. You would be bitching about him neglecting them if he didn’t!
The program is intended to provide comprehensive health-care coverage for more than 50 million Americans too poor or disabled to afford it elsewhere.
The majority of Medicaid recipients receives their benefits through a private health-maintenance organization contracted by Medicaid to administer the program.
As long as the law allows it what is the damn problem?! They are doing absolutely nothing illegal or unethical. The gottcha didn’t work you little scum sucking Obama suck up.
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