Posted on 08/26/2017 9:34:00 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
An estimated $72 million in Medicaid payments were made to potentially ineligible beneficiaries in Kentucky, according to an audit from the agency's inspector general.
The audit found the state agency in Kentucky did not always determine eligibility status for Medicaid benefits in line with federal and state requirements and that the agency did not keep paperwork noting it verified citizenship status.
In order to receive Medicaid benefits, the state must verify citizenship or nationality status and have documentary evidence. The state can conduct this verification process through the Social Security Administration.
The audit found the state determined eligibility status for Medicaid benefits without having such documentation and could not show that they received a citizenship verification response from the Social Security Administration.
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State agency could not prove it verified citizenship status of beneficiaries.
Every day, we see examples of waste fraud and abuse, at the same time we are being told that the solution is to simply raise the debt ceiling. Our Government is selling us out, because the day is not far off when the “debt ceiling can” will no longer be capable of being “kicked” down the road any further.
Doesn’t matter about anything at these offices. They are all about their jobs and increasing employment numbers in their offices and their promotions.
They HUNT for reasons to keep those on the rolls which just allows the ones who rehab/therapist the kids to keep their jobs flowing. Makes me sick.
I am thankful my parents and grandparents were God fearing Christians who made us think about our actions and decisions as well as say unless we are disabled, we are to work for the life we are given and not rely on any government agency for support. I took it so to heart that when a business closed I was embarrassed to go apply for unemployment!! I was totally broke and had to borrow from my parents so got educated on unemployment being something okay to apply for until you can get the next job!
My how things have changed....
Then these bureaucrats are guilty of malfeasance or criminal neglect of office. Prosecute them.
Does not surprise me at all. Bet they are encouraged to look the other way. Laws are only for the privileged.
This was OK under Obama. Hopefully DJT cracks down on this nation-wide.
INSPECTOR GENERAL = otherwise known as closing and locking the barn doors after the horses have been stolen. True in any agency of any government - federal or state! Like the TV commercial - WE JUST MONITOR - we don’t actually do anything! They learned a long time ago it didn’t pay to rock the boat - ala obozo and IG Walpin in CA...Poor guy tried to do the right thing only to lose his job!
Meanwhile I hear, “Oh we don’t have funds” for this or that, when it comes to my special needs brother.
But plenty for illegals.
I was not aware Medicaid made payments to “beneficiaries”?
The headlong rush to get everybody enrolled in obamacare. This is what you get. And this $72 million is just in Kentucky. Former governor Steve Beshear deserves most of the blame for this medicaid fraud and waste along with the willing bureaucrats that administered the health care programs. Little Stevie was overly thrilled to cooperate with his good buddy Barack. Gov. Bevin was left with a mess. KY voters be warned: Steve’s son Andy, currently AG of KY, is waiting in the wings to build on his daddy’s disgusting legacy.
"Estimated $72 Million in Medicaid Payments Made to Ineligible [??? emphasis added] Beneficiaries"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots are reminded that the idea of eligibility or ineligibility for Medicaid sidesteps the MAJOR constitutional problem that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes.
From related threads …
In other words, like Obamacare, the feds wrongly established Medicaid without the required constitutional consent of the states. This is evidenced by the following clarifications of the fed’s constitutionally limited powers by previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
Until the states decide to amend the Constitution to give the feds the specific power to establish a national healthcare program, such an idea probably a bad idea given the fed’s track record for corruption, citizens will need to work with their respective state lawmakers for their healthcare needs.
But before working with their state lawmakers for healthcare services, patriots need to support Pres. Trump in working with state lawmakers to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes so the states can find new revenues (higher state taxes) to establish state healthcare programs and other social spending services.
Also, although Trump is accomplishing a LOT as president, it remains that since the uniparty Congress wants to get rid of him that his first two years in office are arguably just practice. That being said ...
Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer!
Remember in November 2018 !
Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the sewer (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to patriots to drain the sewer in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.
In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
Also, unlike incumbent members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following.
Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.
”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!
“As usual, please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.”
What?!?
You mean all this time your posts have not been directed at me?
Bummer!
Oh well...
LOL jk
The remedy for this one is simple. Make the state of Kentucky pay it all back!
Most of it probably went into McConnell’s pocket.
$720 Million for one state?
Potentially $3.6 Billion for 50 states (if similar).
I wonder how much of that ends up funding ISIS, Antifa, and other terrorist organizations?
The possibilities are mind-boggling.
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