Little-Known Loophole Lets Unions Skim From Taxpayers and Medicaid
27th July 2018
Generally, Medicaid payments are required by law to go directly to medical care professionals after being allocated to states. But, the previous administration allowed a nice little carve out for unions.
Under the Obama administration, home health care unions were allowed to automatically deduct membership fees from the Medicaid money. By the tortured logic used by the previous administration (and the eleven states with unionized home health industries), health aides are state workers and Medicaid money is state money.
The implication that health workers can have Medicaid money taken away from them, often without their knowledge, is unfair and unsustainable.
Unions are like the Mafia without the accountability.