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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 10:04amSanction this postReply
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I believe that Medicaid is a Federal mandate that requires the states to pick up half the tab. It's a pernicious playing with words to say that the Feds 'reimburse' the States.

If you found a way of recouping a portion of the money exacted by the local protection racket, wouldn't you take it? Would that be fraud? Money laundering?

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 11:08amSanction this postReply
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Rick Pasotta wrote:
I believe that Medicaid is a Federal mandate that requires the states to pick up half the tab. It's a pernicious playing with words to say that the Feds 'reimburse' the States. 
"State participation in Medicaid is voluntary" (source).

Also, the federal gov't pays more than half for "poorer states" (ibid.).



(Edited by Merlin Jetton on 5/20, 11:17am)


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