Medicaid Responds to Bill Minor

Bill Minor's latest senile ramblings on Medicaid and how everything is always the fault of a secret Haley Barbour conspiracy drew the ire of Francis Rullan, Communications Director for the Division of Medicaid.

Rullan responding:

Bill Minor's most recent column...brings to mind what Germany's former Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels once said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

Bill wrote, "In his June 30 statement, the MHA's [Sam] Cameron made a point that got no attention: that the existing Medicaid Division 'has yet to demonstrate its ability to plan, project and administer any budget.'" The aspersion cast concerning the capability of this (or any other) Medicaid administration's ability to balance the books is a lie by omission. What's omitted are indisputable facts.

Rullan then lists and comments on 12 facts before concluding:

Perhaps the real reason "that we hear no outrage in the Mississippi news media about "[Governor] Barbour's heavy-handed tactics" is Mississippians are finally getting both sides of the story and can see through this columnist's spin.

Snap.

He could have just said, "Mr. Minor, this is Medicaid calling. You forgot to take your pills again."

(Tip o the Hat to Y'all.)