Steve's barking let's be pro active in looking at welfare providers

Fraud, it's fraud I'm telling you.
When I was an auditor with New Your State and Me and my fellow auditors would look at ADC programs, and things like food stamps and Medicaid we did a great service when we were proactive, we didn't catch many crooks but we didn't fool ourselves and the government leadership didn't fool itself we knew that these programs were rife with people who were gaming the system.  The presents of auditors made the providers at least appear to be honest and when they met with the auditors they would have their lawyers present. The state would at least would get back some of the monies that were stolen and ever so often people would go to jail.
The present governor and his immediate predecessor have the idea that providers of  these programs are partners. When the auditors meet with the auditors now (I understand from some of my fellow auditors) that they meet with clerks.
When I retired from working for New York State's Children and Family Services, we would only go out and audit a provider if there were several complaints against it.

One of my co-worker who became a assistant director with medicaid was asked what he would do to save money, he had several ideas, including having several patients that were going to the same office from the same area at the same time, take one medicaid  designated  car and pay for only one trip. This would have saved millions. His higher ups thought this was a great idea. When the Heath Department officials were asked for ways to save money, they came up with some lame ways.

If Willie Sutton was alive today he would be a medicaid provider, that's where the money is.