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Businessmen and doctors are making huge profits off the welfare system because of what the report terms "the mediocre, non-professional and lackadaisical concern of the Department of Public Welfare...
...Cohen Report, however, speaks of an extremely serious crisis that is already at hand. In a year (mostly in the six months since the state took over welfare), the number of persons on Medicaid and Aid to Dependent Children has doubled. The money given persons on welfare has doubled to $400 million. By 1971 this total may reach $1 billion, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts may face bankruptcy...
...report catalogues startling individual abuses--veterinary treatment for a family pet paid for under Medicaid, a dentist collecting $164,000 in seven months from welfare patients, ten doctors averaging $100,000 each off welfare recipients...
...Monday, the day after the Cohen Report hit the Boston newspapers, Volpe told the press that he had "definite evidence" that the sit-in was "part of a nationwide conspiracy to disrupt the public welfare system and to force us to bend whatever they have in mind...
There is little if any regulation of the prices that doctors and merchants charge welfare recipients. A welfare patient can come in with a cold and be charged $25 by his doctor under Medicaid--the taxpayer pays the $25. The report says that the Welfare Department makes hardly any effort to keep down these exorbitant fees. The doctor gains, the taxpayer loses; the welfare recipient is unaffected because the service of the doctor would presumably be the same whether it costs...