Bachmann's husband got $137,000 in Medicaid funds

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aside from msnbc, the media is ignoring this story


While Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., has forcefully denounced the Medicaid program for swelling the "welfare rolls," the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005, according to new figures obtained by NBC News.

The previously unreported payments are on top of the $24,000 in federal and state funds that Bachmann & Associates, the clinic founded by Marcus Bachmann, a clinical therapist, received in recent years under a state grant to train its employees, state records show. The figures were provided to NBC News in response to a Freedom of Information request.

The clinic, based in Lake Elmo, Minn., describes itself on its website as offering "quality Christian counseling" for a large number of mental health problems ranging from "anger management" to addictions and eating disorders.

The $161,000 in payments from the Minnesota Department of Human Services to her husband's clinic appear to contradict some of Michelle Bachmann's public accounts this week when she was first asked about the extent to which her family has benefited from government aid. Contacted this afternoon, Alice Stewart, a spokeswoman for Bachmann, said the congresswoman was doing campaign events and was not immediately available for comment.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43570552/ns/politics-decision_2012/

[thecrow]

1. So the clinic should not be treating these patients?

Can they do that?

[Fleshdancer]

2. Wait, what? Her husband runs a mental health clinic?

Here's a tip: When a mental health professional is married to a complete nut job, don't go to that clinic. He must be very very bad at his job.

[AmericaIsGreat]

3. Not to mention it sounds more like a faith healing center

We all know how well that shit works

[hamsterjill]

4. That should be the first clue, right???!!!

Good grief!

[NoodleyAppendage]

5. He runs a "faith-based" mental health clinic. It's easy to treat those who will believe in magic.

I often think that the easiest mental health patients to treat are those with an accepting belief system that allows you to blame everything on sin, evil, etc. When the world is black and white (not gray), its far easier to explain things to impressionable minds.

J

[patrice]

7. Yeah, nothing ever actually gets done, but everyone feels real good about it and, oh yes!, ever so

co-incidentally, most end up attending certain churches.

[patrice]

8. PLUS, they get to engage in "risk management" so they only treat those whom they expect

some measure of "success" with.

[lumberjack_jeff]

11. The fact that Medicare gets spent on the treatment that Bachmann would provide...

... is probably the best argument that some degree of reform is appropriate.

[snooper2]

9. It's basically a woo center

[lumberjack_jeff]

10. He didn't get the memo that it's inappropriate to marry the patients. n/t

[patrice]

6. So Bachman supports the use of tax dollars to improve work skill-sets. GOOD!

sarcasm thingy