Star Tribune Editorial counterpoint: Action, not patience, is needed to fix DHS problems
Jul
18
2014
News
Star Tribune Editorial counterpoint: Action, not patience, is needed to fix DHS problems
By Rep. Greg Davids
In its July 13 editorial on the failure of the Minnesota Department of Human Services to guide low-income Minnesotans through the Affordable Care Act rollout (“No accountability for DHS snafu?”), the Star Tribune suggested that by asking Gov. Mark Dayton for solutions and accountability, I engaged in “reckless fear-mongering.”
Predictably, the Editorial Board’s solution is more time and more taxpayer money on the broken MNsure and DHS websites.
The DHS error left 16,000 applications for Medicaid on MNsure stuck in the state’s computer systems for months, a situation that the agency’s staffers either didn’t realize or neglected to handle promptly. That could have left the applicants without health insurance.
