By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-23 20:41:41 | Updated at 2024-09-30 15:23:47
6 days ago
Hochul needs to shut down this pricey home-health-care power grab
nypost.com ^ | 9/22/24 | Post Editorial Board
Posted on 09/23/2024 1:15:32 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU
Gov. Hochul has rightly blasted a $9 billion home health-care program, calling it a “racket” that’s socked taxpayers — but now 1199 SEIU, the political-powerhouse health-workers union, is looking to turn her reform drive into an even bigger cash drain.
Hochul has called the state’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, which uses state funds to compensate family members who care for loved ones at home, “one of the most abused programs” in New York history.
Yet The Post’s Vaughn Golden reports that 1199 is looking to unionize the family workers who deliver the care — which is basically guaranteed to hit taxpayers even harder.
Easier CDPAP eligibility rules set in 2015 goosed enrollees from 20,000 to 250,000, with Medicaid spending on the program tripling over the past five years as it became wide-open to abuse.
In 2020, the FBI busted a Brooklyn outfit that manipulated the hours of care workers to pocket millions in state and federal Medicaid funds.
Hochul’s office claims her reforms — consolidating the 700 payroll agents between Medicaid and caregivers into a single middleman — will still control costs.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: healthcare; medical; obamacare
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Get paid to watch your own relatives! What a STATE!
1 posted on 09/23/2024 1:15:32 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU
To: AbolishCSEU
The Democrat Party is a “racket” that’s socked taxpayers.
2 posted on 09/23/2024 1:17:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: AbolishCSEU
Somebody hasn’t written their check to Kathy’s slush fund.
3 posted on 09/23/2024 1:20:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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