N.Y. Spending Secret Cash on Medicaid

The New York Sun reports:

New York State's government, whose Medicaid budget is larger than Texas's and Florida's combined, spends millions of taxpayer dollars each year on the entitlement program through secret pork barrel grants.

Along with thousands of other discretionary grants made by lawmakers to their districts, the hidden Medicaid spending emerged yesterday with the release of a list of pork barrel appropriations.

The disclosed grants made between 2003 and 2005 account for hundreds of millions of dollars in state spending, money that is largely unregulated and is dispersed almost completely under the public radar.

New York state sounds like some Third world dictatorship with their budget process.Eat your heart out Enron.Secrecy,unaccountability,and corruption are all tied together.Do you think if we ever get national health care there will not be even more corruption? The public sector has rather low ethics.