Meet Gov. Kathy Hochul, fraud warrior \u2014 and try to keep a straight face.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Hochul went before the cameras to boast that she\u2019s driving down costs by cracking down on auto-insurance fraud . . . even as vastly more fraud flourishes across the state, enabled above all by Albany\u2019s culture of corruption.<\/p>\n
Consider: Her big brag was the arrest<\/a> the arrest of 16 fraudsters for intentionally causing crashes and filing $500,000 in phony insurance claims. <\/p>\n That same day, the feds were raiding<\/a> adult day cares in Brooklyn, part of a massive probe of more than 100 sites suspected of Medicaid fraud that likely runs into the hundreds of millions in theft, part of billions scammed from state taxpayers.<\/p>\n New York shells out $116 billion a year on Medicaid, but the powers-that-be show no desire<\/a> to ensure it\u2019s spent well: State Attorney General Tish James, in particular, runs a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit that ranks worst in the nation<\/a> for effectiveness.<\/p>\n Then again, the Hochul-appointed Office of the Medicaid Inspector General doesn\u2019t do much, either.<\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n Federal lawmakers also fault New York<\/a> for not even judging the fraud-risk levels of its providers.<\/p>\n OK: Hochul this year did push some small auto-insurance reforms through the Legislature, and nabbing 16 perps is another step in the right direction.<\/p>\n Yet even she admits New York car insurance is a national \u201coutlier\u201d \u2014 with yearly premiums here averaging $1,500 above the US average, so there\u2019s long way to go.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n And overall fraud, waste and abuse in New York has exploded during Hochul\u2019s five years in office, with Medicaid scams only the outrage that\u2019s hitting the news now (thanks to the feds, not the state). <\/p>\n Hochul\u2019s larger drive to lower costs in general is also a sad joke: Since taking office she\u2019s repeatedly raised taxes and OK\u2019d endless laws and regulations that only push costs up.<\/p>\n Her insane green agenda alone has pushed energy bills to the stratosphere \u2014 notwithstanding her \u201cgenerous\u201d rebates of $100 or $200 that don\u2019t come close to offsetting the higher costs.<\/p>\n Notably, New Yorkers know Albany is ripping them off<\/a>; that\u2019s why Republican gov challenger Bruce Blakeman is closing in the polls<\/a> despite the huge war chest Hochul built up with expert exploitatio<\/a>n of Albany\u2019s pay-to-play system. <\/p>\n That she\u2019s completely a creature of that system is why her fraud-warrior pose is such a joke. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meet Gov. Kathy Hochul, fraud warrior \u2014 and try to keep a straight face. On Tuesday, Hochul went…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1586,393,47848,153,304,396,13319,426,398,7050,9,11,10,49,51,50,299],"class_list":["post-379086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-affordability","tag-attorney-general","tag-car-insurance","tag-donald-trump","tag-editorial","tag-fraud","tag-insurance","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-letitia-james","tag-medicaid","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}