Congress Informed Of $2 Trillion Dollars Budget Savings Without Harming Medicaid Needy While Ending State Fraud

Copy of Letter faxed:
CuomoTARP.blogspot.com    June 27, 2011

To: Harry Reid, Majority Leader; Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader; John A. Boehner, Speaker; Eric Cantor, Majority Leader; Darrell Issa,Chair House Oversight and Government Reform; Lamar Smith, Chair House Judiciary; Patrick J. Leahy,Chair Sen. Judiciary; Charles E. Grassley,Sen. Judiciary; Paul Ryan, Chair House Budget; Harold Rogers,Chair House Appropriations; Kent Conrad, Chair Sen. Budget; Jeff Sessions, Sen. Budget; Daniel K. Inouye,Chair Sen. Appropriations; Thad Cochran,Sen. Appropriations; Tom Harkin, Chair Sen. Health; Michael B. Enzi,Sen. Health; Chris Van Hollen, House Budget; Spencer Bachus,House Financial Services; Barney Frank, House Financial Services; Max Baucus,Sen. Finance;Chuck Grassley, Sen. Finance

Re: Saving $2 trillion dollars over ten years or $200 billion a year, without harming poor beneficiaries and eliminating fraud.   Witnesses and documentation available for quick action.

Dear Congress:
                    A chance to save $2 trillion dollars over ten years without harming any needy beneficiaries of Medicaid.  A quick action on a Medicaid funding change would save federal taxpayers $200 billion a year without affecting services to present beneficiaries and would eliminate massive fraudulent billing of Medicaid. In addition, it would save NY local taxpayers $32 billion dollars spent matching fraudulent NY State Medicaid claims.

        Medicaid Block Grants can be enacted with payments at the same average present rate for all States. In NY State, the major beneficiary of Medicaid fraud is NY State itself. Andrew Cuomo, who was NY Attorney General litigating these frauds, is aware of the fraud perpetrators in NY State.

        Eric Holder, 18 years ago as DOJ Attorney for the District of Columbia in 1994, obtained a refund of $26.97 million dollars from NY State.    But, Holder has been unable to make any progress for the last two years on the massive NY Medicaid fraud. NY State's twenty year spree of stealing from the Medicaid trough can be ended with block grants which will save $200 billion a year in federal expenditures or $2 trillion dollars over ten years. And, a side effect would save DOJ expenditures litigating against NY State. A prodigal NY State could then straighten out its own corruption.    Other States with honest dealings, such as California, will receive increases.

   Witnesses and documentation are available for immediate hearings and action.  Below are links to my blog CuomoTarp.blogspot.com where additional information is available, specifically involving NY Medicaid fraud and its costs.

Sincerely yours,

CuomoTarp.blogspot.com

Links to further data:

1. Congress Is Informed Of NY Medicaid Corruption Results in Death And Beatings

Copy of letter sent:
CuomoTARP.blogspot.com                June 10, 2011

http://cuomotarp.blogspot.com/2011/06/congress-is-informed-of-ny-medicaid.html

2.   Congress Asked To Seek Special Prosecutor For Multi-Billion Dollar NY Medicaid Fraud By State Employees

Copy of letter sent:
CuomoTARP.blogspot.com                May 23, 2011

http://cuomotarp.blogspot.com/2011/05/congress-asked-to-seek-special.html

  

3.  Medicaid Block Grants Would Save NY Taxpayers $32 Billion Dollars Without Affecting Services To Present Beneficiaries

Letter to Congress:
   CuomoTARP.blogspot.com         BY FAX                         5/12/2011

http://cuomotarp.blogspot.com/2011/05/medicaid-block-grants-would-save-ny.html

4.   News Reports Of NY Medicaid Excesses And Block Grants Will Sink Cuomo's Budget Into $32 Billion Dollar Default.

      "New York spent $2,903 per person on Medicaid in 2010 — a third more than any other state. The U.S. average is $1,364. Nevada spent the least: $666 per person."

http://cuomotarp.blogspot.com/2011/04/news-reports-of-ny-medicaid-excesses.html

5.  Three Billion Dollar Medicaid Fraud By New York State In Cuomo Budget Sent To Congress For Oversight And Demand That Eric Holder Be Replaced By Special Prosecutor

Copy of letter sent:  CuomoTARP.blogspot.com           April 13, 2011


   Re: Multi-billion dollar fraud: Special Prosecutor required for the Major Criminal Fraud by NY State officials and others taking billions of dollars a year in federal Medicaid funds.   Eric Holder and the NY Offices of the US Attorney have failed to prosecute and obtain refunds.   Holder has an 18 year history of covering up for Andrew Cuomo when billions of dollars are missing.    Congressional oversight of the Justice Department is needed.  Congress must end misappropriations and deduct past fraudulently obtained funds from present appropriations. Block grants would shift policing to the State. 

 http://cuomotarp.blogspot.com/2011/04/three-billion-dollar-medicaid-fraud-by.html

New York Heads for Default/Bankruptcy Following Greece's and Italy's Path

     Answer the simple questions and see if NY Debt Default or bankruptcy is inevitable.
First facts: QE 2, the buying of federal debt ends this month and the US Treasury Bond market will lose its largest purchaser and the Chinese are not going to step in.    Link 1
 Question 1. When bond buyers disappear, must bond rates be raised?
 Question 2.  When US bonds rates go up, what happens to NY State Bond rates?
 Question 3.  Will Congress save $200 billion a year with no effect on beneficiaries by going to Medicaid block grants in September?     link 2

Fact: Neither Greece nor Italy can print money, because they have the euro and NY is not allowed to print money.  Question 4. What's the difference between Greece or Italy and NY State when both spend more than they can pay back?   link 3  link 4

 Fact: Angela Merkel, German Chancellor, said Germans don't want to pay for Greeks to retire at 51.  

Question 6.Will other States want to fund NY's Medicaid excesses used for non-Medicaid purposes.

Fact: NY has the highest of any US State total of $27,097 State and local debt per person or $108,388 for a family of four.

Question 7. Will higher Debt drive out more tax paying NY residents and retirees as recommended by Bob Brinker? 
Question 8. What interest rate will be charged NY State with the highest debt per person?
Question 9. Where will Cuomo get the $47 billion dollars to cover NY Medicaid excesses?   link 5

The Laws of Gravity or The Laws of Economics in the end are always obeyed.  You reap what you sow and the Piper must in the end be paid.   
Who'll lend this money, which we can't pay back, Andrew? 

Congress Is Informed Of NY Medicaid Corruption Results in Death And Beatings

Copy of letter sent:
CuomoTARP.blogspot.com                June 10, 2011

To: Darrell Issa, Chair House Oversight and Government Reform; Lamar Smith, Chair House Judiciary; Patrick J. Leahy, Chair Sen. Judiciary; Charles E. Grassley, Sen. Judiciary; Paul Ryan, Chair House Budget; Harold Rogers, Chair House Appropriations; Kent Conrad, Chair Sen. Budget; Jeff Sessions, Sen. Budget; Daniel K. Inouye,Chair Sen. Appropriations;  Thad Cochran, Sen. Appropriations; Tom Harkin, Chair Sen. Health; Michael B. Enzi, Sen. Health.;  Chris Van Hollen, House Budget;  Spencer Bachus, House Financial Services; Barney Frank, House Financial Services; Max Baucus, Sen. Finance; Chuck Grassley Sen. Finance

Re: Follow up and confirmation by NY Times of death, beatings and billing excesses funded with Medicaid which Congress must end with block grants which would shift policing to the State.


Dear Congressmen:
      The NY Times has confirmed that New York State has
1. "tolerated physical and psychological abuse, knowingly hired unqualified workers, ignored complaints by whistle-blowers and failed to credibly investigate cases of abuse and neglect, according to a review by The New York." Times of thousands of state records and court documents, along with interviews of current and former employees."
2. "These [NY] institutions spend two and a half times as much money, per resident, as the thousands of smaller group homes that care for far more of the 135,000 developmentally disabled New Yorkers receiving services."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/nyregion/boys-death-highlights-crisis-in-homes-for-disabled.html?_r=1

      Most of these abuses were known to then Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and were defended by NY State in court actions. Presently there is federal court action in northern district of NY involving false claims for Medicaid submitted by NY State.using its SUNY Division.

1.SUNY RESEARCH FRAUD http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Public-school-private-dealings-1403960.php

2. SUNY RESEARCH - also cited for covering up $22 billion medicaid fraud
http://governmentrico.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/nys-22-billion-dollar-medicaid-fraud-nys-health-department-and-research-foundation-for-state-university-of-new-york-suny/

3. This was not SUNY RESEARCH'S First Go-around with Fraud.
http://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region2/29302006.pdf

     While NY State and its present Governor and former Attorney General were well aware of these frauds, he did not end them, nor prosecute. As reported to you earlier and published on this blog, Medicaid block grants would let NY deal with its corruption, rather than profit from the criminal false filings by NY state officials.
http://cuomotarp.blogspot.com/2011/05/medicaid-block-grants-would-save-ny.html

      Medicaid Block Grants would save NY taxpayers $32 billion dollars and federal taxpayers $200 billion without affecting services to present beneficiaries and eliminate massive fraudulent billing of Medicaid. Are Governor Cuomo's rewards to his faithful contributors to be funded with fraudulent Medicaid funds obtained by NY State?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/06 /05/2011-06-05_andy_giveth_show_govs_top_donors_cash_in_with_plum_appointments.html

     Let Andrew Cuomo clean his own house with his own money and let the federal government save $200 billion in its budget.

                        Sincerely yours,

                   CuomoTarp.blogspot.com