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Posted on 02/10/2006 8:33:54 AM PST by george76
Auditor questions spending priorities...
At a time when lawmakers struggled to find money for health care for the state's most vulnerable people, Washington taxpayers footed the bill for a sex-change operation, penile implants, breast augmentation and ear piercings.
In his most recent review of state Medicaid expenses, Auditor Brian Sonntag found thousands of questionable expenditures in the 2004 fiscal year.
One in particular jumped off the page.
Medicaid paid $9,549.92 to surgically transform a woman into a man.
"You pick up the paper or watch the evening news and you see senior citizens who can't get medications of diabetes and things," Sonntag said.
"And here you see tax dollars being used for things like this, it makes you ask, 'Why?' "
Previously unreleased details from last year's audit question the necessity of several other procedures the state subsidized.
The documents show the state spent at least...
Two people had their ears pierced at a total cost of $210...
Each year, the state and federal government spends more than $3 billion through Medicaid to pay for health care of the poor and disabled.
Sonntag said the evidence in the report's small sampling of the entire Medicaid budget indicates that the state could be spending tens of millions of dollars on questionable procedures.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
I thought for a second this was going to be a Barney Frank article...
Hey. Com'on, it's Washington State! Whadayya expect?
welcome to the socialist utopia.
This is what happens when you basically have the City of Seattle elect the Governors and enough libs coming from the suburbs of that hell hole to basically tell the rest of this state to go to hell.
Dear God in Heaven--this is atrocious.
Your tax dollars at work.
Hey. Com'on, it's Washington State! Whadayya expect?
...can't wait till these people get total control of health care. :) I'm sure they won't politicize it.
Raise Taxes and Abolition Freedom: Vote Democrat.
File this one under "economic development" since men earn more than women!
"One in particular jumped off the page. Medicaid paid $9,549.92 to surgically transform a woman into a man."
Yeah, and that seems to be a pretty good deal, because I just got a bill for $9,000 for 5 Xrays for my son, and he wasn't even transformed....
"One in particular jumped off the page. Medicaid paid $9,549.92 to surgically transform a woman into a man."
Yeah, and that seems to be a pretty good deal, because I just got a bill for $9,000 for 5 Xrays for my son, and he wasn't even transformed....
They're called RINOs.
"I thought for a second this was going to be a Barney Frank article..."
... I thought that this was going to be another excuse about why the Seahawks lost
\sarc
I agree. You wouldn't see this happening in Pittsburgh. Kind of makes me happy the Steelers won.
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That's right and we want to be just as wacky as California. No wonder we keep needing those tax increases.
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