State outsources Medicaid work to tiny town in northwest Montana

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By TONY MESSENGER
Published Thursday, August 4, 2005
Gov. Matt Blunt is mending his ways.

Under fire for telling his case workers to stop referring upset clients to legislators and reeling from the news that a member of his security detail wouldn’t allow disabled folks into a meeting of the disabilities commission, Blunt needed to make a positive step to pull himself out of the spiraling bad news related to Medicaid cuts that have cast him in a cruel light.

On Monday, Blunt finally made the kind of public relations move that will someday be highlighted in textbooks.

That was the day thousands of "your benefits have been cut" letters went out to Missouri Medicaid and MC+ clients...

This time, Blunt and his crack staff bypassed the computerized phone hell system and came up with Sharon Rivera.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Aug/20050804Feat001.asp

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[DemInDistress]

1. if its any consolation

He didn't outsource to India...

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Misprint my ass

I just can't believe how evil blunt is.

[Robert Oak]

3. many outsource to India

it's ridiculous...the social services, food stamps and why are people needing food stamps, usually due to taking care of kids, no cheap daycare and no job, under employed...

so here's a job that can be done via telecommute, so they outsource the job to India to save money on food stamps.

What an oxymoron...if they want to save money on food stamps they would hire the people on them to work at home so they could get off of them.

[xmas74]

4. i'd be glad to do that kind of work at home!

It would save me money in the long run. I don't have to worry about daycare, gas, lunch money or even nice office clothes. I could sit at home in my pj's and answer the phone all day long.

[cornermouse]

5. Never mind.

[xmas74]

6. ok.