Congressional Super Debt Committee Receives Plan to Reduce Medicaid by $2 Trillion Dollars In Ten Years Without Harming Beneficiaries

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Plattsburgh, New York, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) September 12, 2011 -- The blog CuomoTARP.blogspot.com latest post is a copy of a fax sent to the Congressional Joint Committee on Debt reduction entitled, "Congressional Super Debt Committee Receives Plan to Reduce Medicaid by $2 Trillion Dollars Without Harming Beneficiaries." The fax was to Sen. Patty Murray, Co-Chairwoman Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Co-Chairman Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction and all of the other committee members.

The letter is In regard: Proposed law for Easy Debt Reduction with Medicaid beneficiaries unharmed. Save $200 billion dollars a year, right now, and reduce the need to borrow and save $2 Trillion in ten years.
The winners: USA taxpayers, California and 24 other States, NY State's local taxpayers
The losers: crooked state employees, other Medicaid fraudsters/profiteers.
Score unchanged: Medicaid recipients

The letter was in response to Senator Kerry asking for suggestions to reduce debt and also to assist the committee with Obama's request for this committee to reduce debt by an additional $450 billion dollars. Whereas, Obama wasn't specific, the letter's proposal was. Since neither Republicans, nor Democrats need or want to fund Medicaid fraud, this Committee can cut $200 billion a year without harming the needy on Medicaid, because Medicaid block grants will shift responsibility for fraud control to the States. Andrew Cuomo and Eric Holder are knowledgeable of the billions of dollars frauds reported in links on the blog.
The blog points out that the Wall Street Journal reported how $1 billion disappeared in one part of NY Medicaid fraud; "The state spends $700 million a year to house about 1,400 disabled people in the facilities. But it bills Medicaid more than three times that amount. By taking advantage of federal matching funds, the state pockets approximately $1 billion extra every year on just this one item—and uses it to subsidize other areas of the budget."

The Proposed law says: Each state shall receive a block grant for all said state's Medicaid costs determined by multiplying the number of Medicaid recipients in the year 2010 in said State by the average of the rates paid in 2010 year to the 25th and 26th ranked states when all the states are ranked in order by their average Medicaid per recipient of federally received Medicaid money.

Such Medicaid block grants at the median rate of the present Medicaid grants would save $200 billion a year ($2 trillion dollars in ten years) and shift responsibility for overcharges, frauds and other misuse of Medicaid funds to the individual States. In example: in New York State, let Andrew Cuomo deal with the NY State crooked employees already known to him. NY State's corrupt stealing of Medicaid funds has gone on for years, since before 1994. "In the case of NY, the Feds keep auditing NYS for fraud. The frauds keep getting bigger and bigger and more and more secretive. While NYS gets fined time and time again, the people running the fraud from the safety of their administrative offices and are under the protection of the NYS Attorney General who uses taxpayer money to defend these white collar government criminals who were ripping off the [Federal government]." "The scandal reaches into the upper levels of management for the SUNY Research Foundation and the state Health Department, according to sources briefed on the case. At stake is more than $22 billion in annual matching federal funds for Medicaid."
Block grants at the present median rate would shift criminal prosecution responsibility to NY State, where Andrew Cuomo and the new AG, Scheiderman, can act as prosecutors, instead of defending the criminal conduct of State employees in federal court. A State like California and 24 others would benefit from this change.

The blog notes that with block grants, beneficiaries would be unharmed as money received is comparable and greater than in 25 states, such as California. The spendthrift States could then police their own Medicaid expenditures, while federal dollars for federal investigations and funding for the Justice Department investigations would be reduced.
The letter concludes with references and links to the supporting data. The letter was also faxed to other members of Congress.

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