Colorado health care agency under investigation
July 17th, 2008 | by Brian T. Schwartz |
From 9 News:
Legislators grilled the state’s health care agency Monday over multi-million dollar mistakes and the firing of a whistle-blower, but the agency denied there was any wrongdoing.
“A smoke-and-mirrors game is being played,” said Rep. Frank McNulty (R-Douglas County) on the legislative audit committee. “Something is dead wrong at the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) and we need to figure out what it is.”
The department was called before the legislative audit committee Monday after 9NEWS interviewed a state accountant, Annemarie Maynard, in early July who said the department tried to deceive auditors about owing Medicaid $8 million from programming and human accounting errors.
There’s more at Colorado Senate News.
Incidentally, the Wall Street Journal recently reported that state governments use Medicaid as a money laundering scheme.
As I wrote last month when Colorado’s SCHIP was “a kind of mess,”
If the Children’s Basic Health PlanMedicaid were a non-government charity people would stop donating money to it. But since it’s government-run, the “doners,” i.e., taxpayers, would become criminals for choosing to donate the money they earn to a charity that actually deserves their donation.
If governments is going to run charities like Medicaid and SCHIP, they should at least compete fairly with non-government charities. A charity tax-credit could achieve this.
(via Ari Armstrong)
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