You know it's ironic I was reporting Medicaid fraud before Al, Hillary, and Ned Ray started Tenncare in 1994. Some in here claim to be seeing fraud. If they see it they should report it. Both the state and federal government have Inspector General Offices that handle fraud and abuse complaints. Been there and done it myself.
I remember real well the HMO scandals and corruption that were prevalent. Now there was some massive fraud for which no one served a day in jail. This wasn't some Bubba drawing a SSI check. It was CEO's taking huge sums of money and bankrupting their company. Likely billions were taken all total.
The states answer was to cut cost by trying to drop disabled from the rolls. It wasn't to try and contain and prosecute those doing the fraud. The contracted HMO's wanted rid of the disabled. It was also the HMO's several of which had big corporate parent companies backing them that helped put Tenncare into existence among them was Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Remember the Hinny Pinny the state is going broke fiasco we must have a state income tax? The reason was Tenncare IIRC. Our then RINO governor was the biggest ignorer of the fraud and demanded the income tax.
I didn't vote for the man either time but Phil Bredesen the Liberal he is put the boot down on the HMO's. All of the sudden there's money. All of the sudden no more demands for an income tax. The nation got a dosage of Tenncare from none other than SML senator Bill Frist who wrote the Medicare reform Almost an exact carbon copy of Tenncare.
Personally I'd like to see Tenncare stopped and Medicaid returned to a 1963 policy for operations. I have valid reasons. It meant taxpayers had accountability for where the money went, how it was spent, were services actually given, and a way to report fraud and abuse. I had the State Inspector Generals Officer or the state surveyors as we called them at work show up at my home one time back in about 1986 to question us on a few home health nurse visits my wife had received. I can tell you from experience working in facilities they inspected they were hard to fool and tough when it came to insuring services were delivered to the ones eligible.
When Tenncare came into existance the protections and oversite by the IG's office was lost. That is when the fraud began.
No, and never will have. Even wearing sunglasses causes night blindness for me. Knocks what vision they correct in half. So they can yell all they want about wearing them, as long as I can still drive I won’t be wearing them. I have NO coatings but the UV on my glasses, that anti-glare stuff lowers your vision too, and they never correct for that stuff. I buy nothing but plastic Zeiss lenses (best on the market) as they are the truest vision. Poly carb lenses are JUNK.