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Over 430,000 Illinois residents are
expected to be new Illinois Medicaid enrollees by the end of the year
because of #ObamaCare. With all the inefficiencies of ObamaCare and
the State of Illinois health management, how many of these new
enrollees will truly qualify?
Under ObamaCare Illinois will receive
100% of cost of patients, who are eligible, for the first three years
and a 50-50 federal match for those eligible but have not signed up
yet. The push is on to get as many as possible to sign up.
Last year, because the state failed to
properly verify Medicaid eligibility, the private company, Maximus
Health Services was hired to work with the Illinois State Audit
office to weed out the Medicaid recipients that are proven to be
ineligible; a two year contract was agreed on at the cost of $76
million so that, hopefully, more than $350 million could be saved.
Everything was going just fine; the
effort was half ways through the program – nearly 3,000 deceased
Illinoisans were found on the Medicaid rolls, $12 million was paid
out in benefits to who? They identified 230,000 that did not meet
requirements to be on Medicaid, the state canceled 115,000 cases that
did not meet the requirements in one way or the other.
Then the state started to listen to the
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council
31, who objected to the use of the private – more efficient –
Maximus Health Services. Through arbitration Maximus was kick out
because Unions need their dues. State employees are once again
verifying eligibility. And once again there will be ineligible
people signed up but what can you expect from a sanction state where
illegal is not a crime.
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