Not only do dead people vote Democrat, now we’re learning they continue to be the benefactor of taxpayer services from a bloated federal government defended by Democrat elected officials.
It turns out that Colorado has been paying for thousands of our dearly deceased to stay on the Medicaid rolls to the tune of $7.3 million just during the years of 2018 to 2020.
That’s according to DOGE a federal inspector general report, which found the waste buried in the monthly fixed payments that Colorado makes to medical care organizations (MCO) based on the number of their Medicaid enrollees.
From the IG report:
We also identified almost 39,000 unallowable (payments) that Colorado made on behalf of deceased enrollees even though their dates of death were accurately recorded in the State’s eligibility system.
Colorado Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans responded to the findings in a Denver Gazette article:
“We know that there is fraud, waste, and abuse in the system that we have to be able to find so that we can actually save Medicaid for the vulnerable populations who need it most,” Evans said.
Polis administration officials blamed the wasteful spending on outdated reporting systems and claim the problems have been