Not only do dead people vote Democrat, now we’re learning they continue to be the benefactor of taxpayer services from a bloated federal government defended by Democrat elected officials.
It turns out that Colorado has been paying for thousands of our dearly deceased to stay on the Medicaid rolls to the tune of $7.3 million just during the years of 2018 to 2020.
That’s according to DOGE a federal inspector general report, which found the waste buried in the monthly fixed payments that Colorado makes to medical care organizations (MCO) based on the number of their Medicaid enrollees.
From the IG report:
We also identified almost 39,000 unallowable (payments) that Colorado made on behalf of deceased enrollees even though their dates of death were accurately recorded in the State’s eligibility system.
Colorado Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans responded to the findings in a Denver Gazette article:
“We know that there is fraud, waste, and abuse in the system that we have to be able to find so that we can actually save Medicaid for the vulnerable populations who need it most,” Evans said.
Polis administration officials blamed the wasteful spending on outdated reporting systems and claim the problems have been corrected, although there’s been no new investigation proving such.
And, they claim the system is now more “efficient” because $2.3 million has been recouped, so nothing to see here. Except for the nearly $5 million still missing from taxpayer coffers that could certainly be used to take care of sick people and addicts.
Evans has called on the state to clean up its act.
Meanwhile, the Gov. Polis is ignoring the wasteful spending report altogether and instead scaremongering the state’s 1.3 million residents on Medicare that Republicans are trying to kick 400,000 of them off that welfare roll.
Not true.
That’s been part of the Democrat’s playbook to DOGE’s digging into wasteful government spending and finding billions in fraud and waste that needs to be eliminated, not the people using the service.
But instead of stopping the abuse and cleaning up government, Democrats are crying “Hands off!” their government waste while steering their so-called treasured government programs straight into bankruptcy.