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Bachmann's husband got $137,000 in Medicaid funds
NBC ^ | Tuesday June 28, 2011 | Michael Isikoff

Posted on 06/28/2011 7:41:48 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

While Rep. Michele Bachmann has forcefully denounced the Medicaid program for swelling the "welfare rolls," the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005, according to new figures obtained by NBC News.

The previously unreported payments are on top of the $24,000 in federal and state funds that Bachmann & Associates, the clinic founded by Marcus Bachmann, a clinical therapist, received in recent years under a state grant to train its employees, state records show. The figures were provided to NBC News in response to a Freedom of Information request.

The $161,000 in payments from the Minnesota Department of Human Services to her husband's clinic appear to contradict some of Michelle Bachmann's public accounts this week when she was first asked about the extent to which her family has benefited from government aid. Contacted this afternoon, Alice Stewart, a spokeswoman for Bachmann, said the congresswoman was doing campaign events and was not immediately available for comment.

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When asked by anchor Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" about the story's assertion that her husband's counseling clinic had also gotten federal and state funds, Bachmann replied that it was "one-time training money that came from the federal government. And it certainly didn't help our clinic."

At another point, she said, "My husband and I did not get the money," adding that it was "mental health training money that went to the employees."

But state records show that Bachmann & Associates has been collecting payments under the Minnesota's Medicaid program every year for the past six years. Karen Smigielski, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services, said the state's Medicaid program is funded "about 50-50" with federal and state monies.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; bachmann; bachmann4mitt; bachmannbotsluvmitt; bachstabbers; cultofpalin; msm; palin; palinbotshere; palinistas4obama; palinization; romneybots; trashingmichele; whenpalinbotsattack
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To: Bigtigermike

Medicaid is ‘government aid’ to a provider of a service?

Funny, I thought it was paid (at a substandard rate BTW) for services offered.


21 posted on 06/28/2011 7:51:53 PM PDT by Ethrane ("obsta principiis")
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To: Bigtigermike

The long knives have officially come out.


22 posted on 06/28/2011 7:52:13 PM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: Bigtigermike

And if her husband turned down medicaid patients she’d be called heartless.


23 posted on 06/28/2011 7:52:27 PM PDT by andyk (Interstate <> Intrastate)
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To: P-Marlowe
It's actually 30 cents on the dollar, but I shan't quibble about the sum.

Bachmann's problem is that she LIES about these kinds of things, when there is no need to.

24 posted on 06/28/2011 7:52:45 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Palin hasn’t announced she is running...

If she does I’m good with it...

If she does not, the Republicans need to filter the media like they filter us...

Only allow certain news people to get interviews and access to the campaign.


25 posted on 06/28/2011 7:52:54 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you dropped your bow?")
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To: Bigtigermike

I’m waiting for the MSM to sneer at her for accepting foster care payments...nevermind it’s usually a money-losing effort.


26 posted on 06/28/2011 7:53:35 PM PDT by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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To: nopardons

What did she slie about?

Getting paid for services rendered is not a grant, not free government money and in fact because the government payments to the medical profession are way below the normal rates is is questionable that the payments are that desirable.


27 posted on 06/28/2011 7:53:46 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: Bigtigermike

Big deal. I read here that she worked for the IRS. Saul>Paul: She had her epiphany.
NBC and Isikof are just putting in their time at minitru, like every other good demo-gerbalist.
Odd that they go to the mattresses when their guy is accused of high crimes and misdemeanors while some here are ready to bail because her husband did something ... lawful.
I mean awful.


28 posted on 06/28/2011 7:53:50 PM PDT by tumblindice (screw NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

...and yet, I know nothing about obama and michelle.


29 posted on 06/28/2011 7:53:50 PM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: old curmudgeon
Medicaid payments are for services rendered. You treat a patient, you get paid. How scandalous. Working for money.

What was he supposed to do? Let the poor go untreated?

Doesn't seem anymore scandalous that a politician that wants earmark reform having taken earmarks while in office.

30 posted on 06/28/2011 7:54:00 PM PDT by RINOs suck
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

...and yet, I know nothing about obama and michelle.


31 posted on 06/28/2011 7:54:00 PM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: Bigtigermike

They expect unless we go live in caves we who believe in limited government we are hypocrites.

Governments pay for health care. If we want to work in health care we are hypocrites.
Governments build roads. If we drive a car we are hypocrites.

We make it SOOOOOO easy for them.


32 posted on 06/28/2011 7:54:09 PM PDT by DManA
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To: andyk

“And if her husband turned down medicaid patients she’d be called heartless.”

Exactly.


33 posted on 06/28/2011 7:54:42 PM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: DaxtonBrown
It sounds like she is lying. She says only "one time" then she gets funds over several years, etc. etc.

Remember: She is a POLITICIAN and as a result there is a tremendous inner compulsion to lie. They cannot help it. Politicians even lie to themselves while looking in the mirror while brushing their teeth in the morning.

34 posted on 06/28/2011 7:55:11 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: DaxtonBrown
Here it comes! Too bad for Michelle. I’m a Palin fan, but I hate to see this.

I support Palin 100%, but I too hate to see the press become rabid against all conservatives.

We can only hope enough sensible Americans will see the press as they truly are-- a nest of anti-human, anti-capitalist evil leftists.

35 posted on 06/28/2011 7:55:38 PM PDT by sand88 (Sarah Palin announces her run: August 12, 2011 11:10am ET)
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To: mnehring

That’s exactly right and a load of BS.


36 posted on 06/28/2011 7:56:12 PM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: old curmudgeon

It’s perfectly legitimate, but that really isn’t the point. As with her denial of receiving farm subsidies, which is ALSO legitimate, michele bachmann CHOSE to lie about it. Why lie when the proof is so readily available? How many times can you lie until no one believes you anymore?
She has also accused obama of using ALL of our strategic oil reserve. How many mistakes like that can you make before people start thinking maybe you don’t have a clue?
This is bad stuff.


37 posted on 06/28/2011 7:56:27 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Sarah Palin is the mirror by which evil reflects back upon itself until consumed out of existence)
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To: Major Matt Mason

“The map is not the territory”

That is, the truth or the rational or the correct answers...none of that matters.
The MSM can throw anything out they want in any way they want..distortions and lies too...it doesn’t matter if they are wrong.

What the public hears IS what the media says.What the public BELIEVES is what the media says...Welcome to the Orwell world.


38 posted on 06/28/2011 7:56:32 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (where is the Great Santini when we need him??)
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To: Bigtigermike

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, The clinic should refuse to treat Medicare and Medicaid patients?

Boy is this a big ole bomb for the Dummies. All Bachmann has to say is we don’t discriminate in treating the patients. Period


39 posted on 06/28/2011 7:56:32 PM PDT by Marty62 (Marty60)
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To: Bigtigermike

Leftists have rabbit-ears for hypocrisy because their daily lives are made up almost entirely of hypocritical actions.


40 posted on 06/28/2011 7:56:53 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Rage all you want, looters & moochers, but the gods of the copybook headings are your masters now.)
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