Lawmakers have grown increasingly frustrated with Medicaid as they have repeatedly discovered new multimillion-dollar payment errors within the service — as they simultaneously have struggled to make painful cuts to programs that serve immigrant children and people with disabilities.
Those recurring errors have eroded trust between the Medicaid program and the lawmakers overseeing its ever-increasing costs.
“As the (budget-writing) process wore on, I think we all became less and less sure that the numbers we were looking at were an accurate reflection of what’s happening in that agency,” Sen. Judy Amabile, a Boulder Democrat, told fellow lawmakers during a meeting Tuesday. “That is why, to a large extent, we are going to do a deep dive into what’s happening there over the interim.”
The same politicians who relentlessly look for excuses to cut health care spending don’t care for a second about all of the wasteful military and police spending occurring.
True, but these politicians are looking into the numbers Medicare is putting out.