You can't make this up - Rebates no but Free Healthcare YES

In a stunning example of institutional incompetence, a state audit panel discovered that the administrators of subsidized healthcare in New Jersey didn't bother to do their job. From Kaisernetwork.org:

NJ FamilyCare, a subsidized health program in New Jersey, did not verify eligibility for all of the program's beneficiaries, and more than 873 people with annual gross incomes more than $85,000 received benefits through the program, according to a report by State Auditor Richard Fair, the Bergen Record reports. Uninsured children and parents in families with annual incomes below 350% of the federal poverty level are eligible for the program. According to the three-year audit, state Department of Health and Senior Services officials sought to check applicants against the state's wage, disability and unemployment records to verify income, but the records did not have data on self-employment and rentals, interest or dividends.

So just to put this in perspective. If one of these individuals applied for the Federal Economic Stimulus funds, they would not receive it as they make too much money. But in the state of New Jersey, they can receive free healthcare? We wonder why the state is broke and Democrats want to raise taxes?

The real question, is who will be help responsible. I bet noone.

Read it all here if you can stomach it.

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