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Tim Pawlenty wants to kick Latinos out and kiss Trump's ass

Tim Pawlenty, former Governor of Minnesota, is running to take his job back and he is following Trump’s main strategy: blaming minorities for problems that are rather rooted in bad policies and government corruption. His campaign targets undocumented immigrants as if they were stealing from the government by benefiting from programs from which they do not qualify for. Pawlenty just wants to appeal the president’s core supporters’ beliefs, and in the process, he throws some crappy arguments.

Throughout his campaign Pawlenty cited a study which found that not all the people enrolled in MNSure were eligible for its benefits and he even suggested to “stop hiding behind political correctness and make sure people getting government benefits are here legally”.

The study was carried out by the Office of The Legislative Auditor from January 1, 2015 through March 31, 2015. Its objective was to ensure enrollees were eligible for health care benefits and it concluded that the Department of Human Services failed to oversee the eligibility requirements resulting in an overpayment between $115 and $271 million. Such conclusion came from the data of about 178,000 households from which 99 were selected (including 157 people) “for detailed testing and verification”.

Of those tested, 38% were not eligible for the program in which they were enrolled and 28% should not benefit from any program at all -due to income that exceeded the program limits or unreported household size and family relationships. Some people who were eligible and were enrolled in the right program received $11,000 in overpayment; they also realized there were duplicate accounts. Finally, the study only found 56 people who needed to verify social security numbers, citizenship or immigration status, and/or household income. This does not mean they were all undocumented immigrants but that the verification time frame was longer than the 95-day required. Those cases were still unresolved by the end of the study in March 2015. Some of those enrollees were not notified about discrepancies in their information; in other instances, people sent the corrected information but employees failed to adjust it in MNSure. The audit does not blame immigrants but poor training and outdated software. (You can read the full audit here).

Emily Johnson Piper, the DHS commissioner, disputed the findings:

[W]e are skeptical of whether the audit’s calculation of eligibility errors is accurate when compared to how the department is required to determine eligibility under federal and state law. We conduct Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) audits of Medicaid eligibility under the federally directed PERM rules. Our most recent PERM audit found much lower error rates than the findings of this audit. While the error rate in the PERM audit was too high (16%), it was much low[er than the 38% in Finding 1 of this audit. The PERM audit also found only one case in the sample of 128 cases – less than one percent – that was not eligible for any public program, a marked difference from the 28% reported in Finding 1 in this audit.