Congressional Super Debt Committee Receives Plan to Reduce Medicaid by $2 Trillion Dollars Without Harming Beneficiaries

A Fax sent to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction on Sunday evening                  September 11, 2011

To: Sen. Patty Murray, Co-Chairwoman Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction; Sen. Max Baucus of Montana; Sen. John Kerry; Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona; Sen. Pat Toomey; Sen.Rob Portman and
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Co-Chairman Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction; Rep.Fred Upton; Rep. Jim Clyburn; Rep. Dave Camp; Rep.Xavier Becerra; Rep. Chris Van Hollen.

Re: Proposed law for Easy Debt Reduction with Medicaid beneficiaries unharmed.  Save $200 billion dollars a year, right now, and reduce the need to borrow and save $2 Trillion in ten years. 
The winners: USA taxpayers, California and 24 other States, NY State's local taxpayers
The losers: crooked state employees, other Medicaid fraudsters/profiteers.
Score unchanged: Medicaid recipients

Honorable Senators and Representatives on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction and others in Congress:

        Senator Kerry asked for suggestions to reduce debt. Obama wants you to reduce debt by an additional $450 billion dollars and wasn't specific, leaving the details to your committee.    But this proposal is specific.  Here is a plan to reduce debt right now, with $200 billion this year and $2 trillion in ten years.  Since neither Republicans, nor Democrats need or want to fund Medicaid fraud, this Committee can cut $200 billion a year without harming the needy on Medicaid.  Medicaid block grants will shift responsibility for fraud control to the States.    Andrew Cuomo and Eric Holder are knowledgeable of the billions of dollars frauds reported below.  And you would reward California, as well as saving municipal and local/county New York State taxpayers the cost of matching the fraudulent money taken.

     The Wall Street Journal reported how $1 billion disappeared in one part of NY Medicaid fraud; "The state spends $700 million a year to house about 1,400 disabled people in the facilities. But it bills Medicaid more than three times that amount. By taking advantage of federal matching funds, the state pockets approximately $1 billion extra every year on just this one item—and uses it to subsidize other areas of the budget."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704013604576247300936116610.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTTopStories

Proposed law: Each state shall receive a block grant for all said state's Medicaid costs determined by multiplying the number of Medicaid recipients in the year 2010 in said State by the average of the rates paid in 2010 year to the 25th and 26th ranked states when all the states are ranked in order by their average Medicaid per recipient of federally received Medicaid money.

     Such Medicaid block grants at the median rate of the present Medicaid grants would save $200 billion a year ($2 trillion dollars in ten years) and shift responsibility for overcharges, frauds and other misuse of Medicaid funds to the individual States.    In example: in New York State, let Andrew Cuomo deal with the NY State crooked employees already known to him. NY State's corrupt stealing of Medicaid funds has gone on for years, since before 1994.   As described in prior faxes: "In the case of NY, the Feds keep auditing NYS for fraud. The frauds keep getting bigger and bigger and more and more secretive. While NYS gets fined time and time again, the people running the fraud from the safety of their administrative offices and are under the protection of the NYS Attorney General who uses taxpayer money to defend these white collar government criminals who were ripping off the [Federal government]."
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/

"The scandal reaches into the upper levels of management for the SUNY Research Foundation and the state Health Department, according to sources briefed on the case.   At stake is more than $22 billion in annual matching federal funds for Medicaid."
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Feds-probing-Medicaid-fraud-at-SUNY-firm-557890.php

      Block grants at the present median rate would shift criminal prosecution responsibility to NY State, where Andrew Cuomo and the new AG, Scheiderman, can act as prosecutors, instead of defending the criminal conduct of State employees in federal court. A State like California and 24 others would benefit from this change.  
http://cuomotarp.blogspot.com/2011/05/congress-asked-to-seek-special.html

    With block grants, beneficiaries would be unharmed as money received is comparable and greater than in 25 states, such as California.   Medicaid benefits per individual would remain above the amount paid in California, which State we know is not stingy with helping the needy,   The spendthrift States could then police their own Medicaid expenditures, while federal dollars for federal investigations and funding for the Justice Department investigations would be reduced.

     This letter is a condensed recap of an earlier post on CuomoTARP.blogspot.com entitled, Deal With Debt Limit With $200 Billion A Year In Real Cuts In Medicaid Which Don't Hurt Beneficiaries  which is included with this fax and has links for confirming data.  Another post, dated July 5, 2011, was sent to Congress and dealt with the need for Federal prosecution to get back the money already stolen:  Save $2 Trillion Dollars In Federal Budget Right Now And Let Eric Holder Fumble Later With NY State Medicaid Fraud

Witnesses available.

                                         Sincerely yours,

                               CuomoTarp.blogspot.com,

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cc:  Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Allen West, Thaddeus McCotter, US Representatives; Rand Paul, David Vitter, Jim DeMint, Senators;
and 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;  Chuck Grassley, Sen. Finance