The Denver Post reminds us of why government should neither expand Medicaid, nor force us to donate to charities, especially ones run by government:
Roughly 19 percent of new food-stamp applications were delayed statewide in October. For Medicaid, 18 percent of new applicants didn’t get timely benefits that month, according to lawyers who get the data from the state as part of the 2007 settlement. …State officials say they are behind because of problems and inefficiencies with a $243 million computer system the state installed in 2004.
… At the end of 2007, the state Departments of Health Care Policy and Finance and Human Services entered into a settlement agreement, meant to force the state into compliance with federal law.
Improvements since then is like, “going from an F to an F plus,” Kahn said. “It’s not really satisfactory.”
For more, see my post, Charity Care instead of government programs.
