🚀 go-pugleaf

How interesting.  KSDO had a benefits analyst from Medi-Cal
(California's sister program to Medicare) on this morning.  Among his
other revelations:

 * He has a caseload of 500 people.  400 of those are illegal aliens.
 *   And half of those are also recieving welfare
 * The "ID" that MediCal accepts for proof of US Citizenship include
   border crossing cards (which state that a mexican citizen is temporarily
   crossing the border and promises not to stay and work), and even Mexican
   government worker ID cards.  No photos required. 
 * They send out workers who get $40 a head for signing up anyone (including,
   and mostly, illegal aliens) for MediCal.
 * Applicants can "exempt" a car or a house when determining
   qualification.  Some of his clients drive BMWs and other expensive cars.
 * MediCal can provide emergency hospital care for illegals.  Hence, MediCal
   urges illegals to use the (overloaded) emergency rooms at hospitals for
   any medical care.
 * The workers will help illegals who don't know all the "tricks" to get
   signed up anyhow, since a significant measure of their performance is
   how many new people they get signed up (and for those who handle current
   "clients" how many they keep).

I forget the rest - there was an hour of this.  Basically it boils
down to that the workers are supposed to encourage fraud and are
rewarded for how much Medical money they can spend.

Socialists, rejoice, however.  The same thing happened last year with
the welfare department.  The Grand Jury found that welfare fraud was
about 30%, possibly as high as 40%.  Total change in procedures since
then: none.  It's state and federal money they're spending, so the
local department really doesn't give a damn.  It's still a leftist
paradise. 

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It's like deja vu all over again.  -- Yogi Berra