Michigan To Privatize Flint Water Crisis With Another Authority

Well, lookie what I found here!

Michigan House Representative Kurt Heise has just introduced a bi-partisan bill to create a super-special-privatized-quasi-governmental-organization which is immune to external scrutiny.

This is the proposed Michigan Water Quality Alliance.

Its purpose is to identify, target, and secure grant funding from public and private sources and have local public school districts, including universities, local and regional public agencies join as voluntary members and collect fees.

What those "fees" are has yet to be answered.  I am going to put it out there that a fee is another unchallenged legal term meaning a kind of default of authority.

Then the Alliance will have the powers to enter into contracts, pull permits and legally represent these voluntary members.

This Alliance seems to be taking on a university model of construction, but I would prefer to see the actual rule of construction for this Bill.

If the Alliance is, and more than likely will be formed under Michigan Corporation Laws as a non-profit, the audit provision in the Bill becomes null and void, or, as the state has weighed in on other so-called authorities when it come to transparency in operations with public funds by allowing the formation of the Alliance as a domestic for-profit, using the Alliance as a public strawman to circumvent legal liabilities.

This is clearly not a job for the State Auditor General nor any other Inspector General in Michigan as the state authority to audit was omitted from this legislation.

This, to me, is the most alarming provision in the Bill:

 A WATER QUALITY ALLIANCE MEMBER MAY ALLOCATE THE USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FROM FEES, TAXES, OR ASSESSMENTS GENERATED UNDER OTHER STATE LAWS FOR USE BY A WATER QUALITY  ALLIANCE.

I shall assume the public will not participate in the decisions to allocate.

In essence, the Alliance seems to be a viable option to secure alternative funding to address the crumbling potable water infrastructure, but is this not what universities do already?

Is this the beginning of a corporate take over of public lands, its water sources and access to public funding or is this another artificial authority to substantially profit off the ills of society and control the water scarcity debate?

Will the state's legal defenses in dealing with Flint be paid from this Alliance?

I am excited to hear discussion and clarification on this Bill because I have a sneaky suspicion that this is going to get juicy and quite salacious.

Michigan Water Quality Alliance Bill

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The BIOCLAIM™ Solution

So far, the public awareness, or rather the public concern, in Medicaid fraud, let alone Medicaid fraud in child welfare has been dearth. Little or nothing comes up in the media acknowledging this issue even exists. The most I have come across is a policy position from the White House and a Wall Street Journal article.

Then there are state audits all over the nation identifying fraud.

It is such a simple task for one to stand and call out a problem, but such a grand endeavor to create a solution and present it.

Michigan Senators have sadly attempted to generate a solution to Medicaid fraud in child welfare. The policy offering was so embarrassingly pathetic, it has become a billboard announcement that the state is not doing what it receives federal funding for.

Then, I found logic in a viable solution that is feasible.

The U.S. patented devices and process is called BIOCLAIM™.

Without providing a lecture on biometric technology, I will cut to the chase and provide an except from the website:

The problem is healthcare fraud. Phantom billing, up-coding, card swapping and medical identity theft are the most pervasive types of fraud resulting in estimated losses between 60-220 billion dollars per year.

Other biometric and smartcard company products do not offer a complete solution to healthcare fraud. Most products rely on the front desk to stop a fraudulent transaction. BIOCLAIM™ removes the reliance on the people who are often part of the fraud and creates an auditable technological record.

BIOCLAIM™ is the solution to healthcare fraud.

BIOCLAIM™ is a comprehensive solution to healthcare fraud.

It was at this point I was brought to my knees in the brilliance of the the perfect solution to Medicaid fraud in Child Welfare.

Up until this point, there has been no possible way of conducting a proper audit or examination of the child welfare industry for the following, very simple reasons:

(1) Any matter dealing with a child is protected, or rather excluded and exempted, under Freedom of Information Act statutes. These matters extend from the actual child's identity to the administrative and fiscal operations of a child welfare agency.

BIOCLAIM™ SOLUTION: Each child is assigned an unique coded identifier as is each individual rendering service. Data can be aggregated in time intervals, geographically stratified, just to name a few quantitative methods, to examine the internal operations of a child welfare agency.

(2) Non-profits, 501(c)3's or "That which operates in the name of God" for example, even though they are regulated by the state through licensing, are not audited and are not subject to full disclosure in reporting on 990s nor are these organizations obligated to generate annual reports. In short, there is no Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) nor is there universal language or policy in operations.

BIOCLAIM™ SOLUTION: The reports could be automatically generate from data, automatically providing transparency, better allowing accountability.

(3) The privatization of child welfare has given birth to the infectious growth called Medicaid fraud. These are Quasi-Governmental-Organizaions (QGOs). Privatization has made it virtually impossible for states to contractually debar, sanction, or revoke licensing due to the inherent conflict of interest of executing the policy of the state. QGOs operate within the woven layers of immunity. This means it is difficult for the state to prosecute itself and this is why the States Medicaid Fraud Control Units do not go after, or even attempt to go after, Medicaid fraud in Child Welfare.

BIOCLAIM™ SOLUTION: Constructing and running specialized reports for States Attorney General to aggressively go after Medicaid fraud in Child Welfare would increase States Federal Funding Percentages, the recoveries could become beneficial to General Funds, and removes the inherent conflict of interest.

(4) Medicaid fraud is so perniciously pervasive that States, and Federal entities, lack the resources and sophistication to stop Medicaid fraud, let alone Medicaid fraud in child welfare.


BIOCLAIM™ SOLUTION: Fraud deterrence would pay for itself through an increase in effective and efficient services. Consumers, or to be more specific, children and guardians will have, for the first time in the history of the child welfare system, an opportunity to file a grievance and have it investigated.

BIOCLAIM™ may be be viewed as an empowering democratic tool as it allows the public, and the consumers of child welfare, to be watchdogs with a voice, furthering the end of Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

My fascination with the idea of biometrics being applied to aberrant billing in child welfare will lead me to investigate this cutting-edge technology as it is symbiotic with my work in AI, which I may present in my next post.