Alabama Has To Pay Back $88 Million In Bogus Child Medicaid Bonuses

Providing medical care for low income children is an issue marked by political and social dissonance.

The Michigan Senate has just passed the Medicaid expansion, leading to an increase in enrollment of children in the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA).  Unfortunately, there is a large segment of the population who have been mesmerized by political demagogues who have made popular rhetoric to blame people for being "too lazy to work" and "generational wanting of entitlement handouts" as the reasons why Obamacare, The Affordable Heathcare Act, should be destroyed as it is sucking dry the pockets of wealthy tax payers.

It has become fashionable to blame those who need Medicaid the most for the future demise of Social Security but that is far from the truth.

Here are another $88 million reasons to ask why those so against Obamacare are not including situations like this into their discussions of fiscal responsibility.

Alabama should have received bonus payments of only

$1,468,012 and $5,687,907 for FYs 2009 and 2010, 

respectively, as we determined by calculating the bonus 

payments using the correct current enrollment numbers for 

these years. Therefore, of the total $95,353,417 in bonus 

payments that Alabama received for these 2 years, 

$88,197,498 was not allowable.

I am not here to blame the State of Alabama for thinking it was doing such a good job that it was averaging $40 million a year in bonuses when its Medicaid administrators damn well knew or should have known that the other States were averaging about $4 million a year.

I am here asking those in leadership who are so against the expansion of Medicaid why they are not speaking upon audits, such as this, which I have been bringing to light for the last 10 years.  I believe the political silence is a result of its personal, financial benefit.

Alabama Received Millions in Unallowable Performance Bonus Payments Under the Children’s Health Insurance P... by Beverly Tran

History has us to believe that Marie Attionette told her advisors to "Let them eat cake" when they informed her that the people we starving and had no bread to eat.

History has a strange way of repeating itself when speaking to political leadership.

People:  "The children, the children and their caregivers have no health care!!"

Politicians against health care for all:  "Let them die."

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