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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Katelew who wrote (81992)7/7/2018 5:11:16 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 359686
 
If the program includes language regarding assets, as does Medicaid, and then the applicant is asked to list those assets, it would probably go quite a ways on limiting the abuse.

Maybe not so far as it would seem. I don't know about Medicaid but you don't have to be penniless to get a HUD Section 8 housing supplement. I had occasion to help someone who was receiving one and I was unable to locate a dollar figure on assets but she had about $75K in the bank (which she has been running through since she is in care and no longer has the covered apartment). And I know that with Medicaid long-term care you don't have to sell your house and I would expect that to be the case for regular Medicaid. I suppose the wonks that deal with those programs recognize the difference between immediate assets and long-term assets. It makes no sense to make a family homeless to get health care because then they will need additional housing assistance. My point being that perhaps some of the folks you have in mind would be eligible under those conditions anyway.

A while back Al Gore had his Reinventing Government program. One of the things it did was to quit spending more money auditing than the recovered costs. Back then you needed a purchase order and to go through the procurement office just to get some markers and flip-chart paper. So they gave govt managers credit cards and saved a bundle on net. That was internal. Same applied to public programs.

I had in mind Medicare when I posted. It is means tested but only on income. Would you really have all the grannies compute and submit net worth each year to demonstrate net worth before determining their premium when most are barely scraping by.

I think this is more complicated than you imagine. As someone with more assets than income, thus theoretically benefiting from the status quo, I have pondered the issue. Maybe there are some things that could be done but I doubt there is much that would be cost effective.
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