Gaming the System for Partisan Benefit
Medicaid Troubles, and How The Elite are Playing Games
It’s not SOLELY the fault of Obamacare. Some of it is the use of poorly trained “Navigators” who put people on Medicaid that never should have gotten it. But it’s led to a LOT of people who were and are ineligible for the program to continue to benefit from enrollment.
Study authors Hayden Dublois and Michael Greibrok examined more than 4,000 hospitals nationwide, scrutinizing their federal financial filings. They found that in 2013, the final year before implementation of the Affordable Care Act — commonly known as “Obama Care” — hospitals in expansion states reported just over $10 billion in Medicaid losses,
“The most recent data, from 2021, show the shortfalls ballooning more than 115%, to $22.3 billion,” they wrote in the WSJ. “By comparison, the shortfalls in states that didn’t expand Medicaid grew by only 6%. When the data from 2022 and 2023 become available, they’ll likely show even bigger losses in expansion states.
The problem is exacerbated by the increase in illegal immigrants over the last few years - some say that the numbers may be approaching 10 million since Biden took office.
But, but, but…you KNOW that illegal aliens are permitted on Medicaid or other Federal programs! You KNOW that for a FACT!
Say, would you like to buy the Carnegie-Lorain bridge? I just happen to own it, and I’m willing to sell it to you, cheap.
Here’s the way it works:
Yes, TECHNICALLY, the people who cross the border without papers (PC way to refer to them is no longer ‘illegal’, but ‘undocumented’) are NOT eligible for any form of Federal assistance.
HOWEVER, what is done is this:
The people given the responsibility for ‘re-settling’ the ‘newcomers’ - thosea would be the NGOs - Non-Governmental Organizations - collect government grants for their work. Which TECHNICALLY is not the government giving the illegals money, but the NGO. So, it’s like you receiving stolen goods from a guy who got them from another guy. You TECHNICALLY have a hands-off relationship, which makes you the “innocent patsy” (even though we know you were fully aware of the illegal nature of the preceding transactions).
Those NGOs direct the immigrants (no longer illegal, TECHNICALLY, as they have been re-classified as persons released for future action to finish processing them, and either declaring them deportable, or allowing their presence as ‘persecuted individuals in fear of their life in their home country’.
With that re-classification (TECHNICALLY not the proper procedure, but the illegality of it is ignored), the ‘New Americans’ are processed through and given all kinds of goodies - EBT, housing assistance, cash money, etc.
The entity that facilitates this is CMS - the Center for Medicare Services - that, by fiat, declares them eligible for health benefits. Yes, that IS using an agency to side-step the normal process, and deem them the equivalent of any American citizen, for the purposes of getting government services they are NOT eligible for. But, with a wave of their hand, they overlook that and bestow their Lordly Waiver of Law.
Here’s the actual wording of how CMS manages to do it:
Nonfinancial eligibility
You may also qualify for Medicaid under other criteria, including:
being a U.S. citizen or a qualified non-citizen, such as a lawful permanent resident
residing in your state to qualify for coverage there
being between 19 and 64 years old
being pregnant
having children
HHS also has been given marching orders on handling the situation of aliens who normally would be considered ineligible for residency. and it’s a doozy. Essentially, it mandates ignoring Black Letter Law (the actual wording of any laws, and re-writing the actual law. “Accessing Children’s Health Insurance Program and Most Medicaid Benefits Will Not Affect Immigration Status”
How does that benefit the USA?
Well, it doesn’t.
But, it DOES benefit the Democrats, and the Leftists that currently run it. It benefits the Democratic Party, which - having lured illegal bodies into their state - will outnumber the voters in states following the rule of law. That will inflate their Census numbers, permitting them extra Representatives in Congress, and making it easier to have control of the House.