Crackdown

Illinois wants to crackdown on Medicaid fraud, by making sure people really live in Illinois, and making sure they're poor enough to qualify, but there's a problem: the Feds won't let us.

The Department of Health and Human Services argues that those enforcement efforts could violate the 2010 health care reform law, which forbids states from making Medicaid eligibility standards more restrictive.

I continue to be in awe
at what is in this law.