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A Medicaid Task Force won’t eliminate fraud or fix what the MCOs broke (opens the original)
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As State Auditor, I've devoted the last eight years to uncovering waste, fraud, and abuse of Iowans' tax dollars, identifying, on average, more than $4.3 million in misused public funds each year - more than any of my predecessors. So, when the current administration established an 11-member Medicaid Fraud Elimination Task Force to root out fraud in the system, some wondered why I wasn't included. Maybe it's political, or maybe it's because I've criticized how the state administers Medicaid: pri
Protecting Iowa public schools and tax dollars - The Cherokee Chronicle Times (opens the original)
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How should the state balance school choice with support for public schools? As State Auditor, I’ve been sounding the alarm on the unaccountable private school voucher program for years. Politicians who like to lie say it’s because I’m against private schools. That’s not true at all. What I am against is waste, fraud and abuse of Iowa tax dollars, and the private school voucher program has been the second biggest invitation to all three since it was enacted. As it stands, the private school vouch
Protecting Iowa public schools and tax dollars (opens the original)
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As State Auditor, I've been sounding the alarm on the unaccountable private school voucher program for years. Politicians who like to lie say it's because I'm against private schools. That's not true at all. What I am against is waste, fraud, and abuse of Iowa tax dollars, and the private school voucher program has been the second biggest invitation to all three since it was enacted. As it stands, the private school voucher system requires no accountability over how tax money is being spent.
It’s high time for the truth - The Cherokee Chronicle Times (opens the original)
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Imagine punishing your kid for telling the truth by taking away their allowance years later. It makes no sense, but that’s the logic behind an assertion by Kraig Paulsen, the Director of the Iowa Department of Management, that failing to reissue the FY2020 Statewide Single Audit puts future federal funding at risk. That’s not true. The federal government doesn’t withhold funds for previous, resolved audit findings. The falsehood was in response to the Treasury Department reporting that the Reyno
It’s high time for the truth (opens the original)
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Imagine punishing your kid for telling the truth by taking away their allowance years later. It makes no sense, but that's the logic behind an assertion by Kraig Paulsen, the Director of the Iowa Department of Management (DOM), that failing to reissue the FY2020 Statewide Single Audit puts future federal funding at risk. That's not true. The federal government doesn't withhold funds for previous, resolved audit findings. The falsehood was in response to the Treasury Department reporting that the
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