Is It A Rule That, If You Are Not Eligible To Participate, But You Sneak In, You Are You Entitled To Stay?

On Fella's Foolishness Scale This Blog Posting Registers As Not Very Foolish

Congress is abuzz about the Members who want to Cut Medicaid Spending.

Is it a Cut to Medicaid if you stop Medicaid Funds from going to people who are not entitled to Medicaid?

I Heard a New York Congresswoman On TV Make These Points:

• In New York State 5 million people are Eligible for Medicaid.
• In New York State 8 million people are Collecting Medicaid.
• That’s 3 million who are Collecting Medicaid who are Not Eligible for Medicaid.
• Medicaid paid $40 Billion for these 3 million Ineligible Recipients of Medicaid Funding.

(Are you saying to yourself New York need not care about the cost of Medicaid because the money for Medicaid comes from the Federal Government...Or does it?)

• Actually, State and Local Governments pay half of the cost of Medicaid Expenditures.
• That means New York paid $20 Billion (its half) and the Federal Government paid $20 Billion (its half).

Now you know. What do you want to bet that some of our representatives in both the States and Federal Governments who are poking holes in the air when they stand up and talk about Medicaid do not know what you now know?

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It’s not Exact Science...

New York’s Medicaid program is funded through a combination of federal, state, and local dollars. The federal government reimburses 50% of most New York Medicaid costs, with higher matching rates for ACA (Obamacare) Medicaid expansion costs and other special circumstances, which is why the visualizations show the federal proportion as greater than 50%. ^*

Click on this link below only if you have burning desire to become confused...

^{*Source: https://uhfnyc.org/our-work/initiatives/medicaid-institute/dashboards/new-york-medicaid-expenditures/}

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Since we are at the Bottom of this Blog Posting, here is The Bottom Line...Many are complaining about the people who want to cut Medicaid. Fella’s question of the day is, Is cutting payments to people who are Not Eligible for Medicaid really “cutting” Medicaid?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: These are big numbers but these are only one state’s numbers. If we were to try and wrap our heads around all 50 states and all 50 states had the same Ineligible Medicare Recipient Payment Problem, would you not agree that we are talking about some Really Big Numbers!