From $2.5 Million to $104 Million: How Medicaid Exploded in Minnesota
Download MP3How did Minnesota’s Medicaid program balloon from $2.5 million to $104 million today?
Join AnneMarie Schieber, managing editor of Health Care News, and Devon Herrick of the Goodman Institute Health Blog as they discuss how fraud in two programs—both aimed at addressing non-medical “social determinants” of health care—has contributed to this explosive growth.
Also in the show: the troubling connection between untreated mental illness and the recent wave of violence and murder-suicides across the country, including incidents in Michigan, New York City, Atlanta, and Austin, Texas, between July 28 and August 11.
- Why weren’t these individuals in institutional care?
- Should privacy laws be loosened so extended families can better monitor and help their loved ones?
- Can Medicaid be revised to provide more flexibility for substance abuse and mental health treatment?
- Should we investigate the link between marijuana use and psychosis?
Helpful resources include the Treatment Advocacy Center and the discussion of outpatient civil commitment in Committed: The Battle over Involuntary Psychiatric Care.
Other topics covered in this episode:
- Trump backing down on mandating IVF coverage in insurance plans
- The shocking cost of a $21,000 post-exposure rabies shot
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AnneMarie Schieber
AnneMarie Schieber brings decades of experience as an investigative news reporter to the forefront as host of Health Care News from The Heartland Institute. Along with hosting the podcast, Schieber is the managing editor of Health Care News, Heartland's monthly newspaper for health care reform. Before her work in the liberty movement, Schieber spent several decades at television stations in Michigan, Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania. The Associated Press awarded her the top honor of "Best Individual Reporting" for being the first reporter to call attention to government efforts to subsidize spending by increasing automobile fines, typically on low-income motorists.
