Jul 1, 2010 1:31 pm US/Eastern
WASHINGTON DC - (CBS4)
It was designed to help poor families heat and cool their homes, but an audit of the federal program that provided more than $100 million went to pay electric bills of thousands of applicants who were dead, in prison or living in million-dollar mansions.
GRP: "The investigation found HHS paid thousands of dollars to people who were obviously ineligible for the program.
HHS paid $3.9 million to 11,000 applicants who used the identities of dead people.
HHS paid $370,000 to 725 applicants who were in prison.
HHS paid $671,000 to about 1,100 people who made more than the maximum income to qualify for the program. New Jersey paid $3,200 to a nursing home on behalf of eight patients after the home's director applied for assistance. The patients' nursing home care was already paid by Medicaid."
Can we even fathom the potential, once "The American Doctor" gets the gist of how to work "The System, of abuse of a "National Health Plan", once implemented?
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