Anderson and Indiana's FSSA Modernization

Stale news with a lot of importance here via Anderson's The Herald Bulletin, Residents angry at welfare meeting:

FSSA began a modernization pilot program in 12 counties, including Madison County, late last year. Since then, local social service agencies have been flooded with complaints. In March, FSSA expanded the program, outraging its critics.

FSSA’s Mitch Roob maintains that the state has statistics to suggest that the program is helping more Hoosiers.

Judi Turpen of Anderson stood before the crowd and said her mother was recently at risk for being evicted from her assisted living facility because Medicaid would no longer pay the bill. Turpen says FSSA workers wanted to force her to take her mother into her own home, which is not wheelchair accessible. “I called Gov. Daniels’ office and said my house isn’t accessible, but I know yours is because I paid for it.”

After threatening to move her elderly mother into the governor’s mansion, Turpen said, FSSA workers finally resolved her problem.

The story got picked up on Taking Down Words with FSSA, Higher Ed: When will the privatization stop?. I suggest reading the comments at TDW.

Watching Indiana Week in Review I heard someone comment that the presidential race sucked the life out of the governor's race. I think that Indiana's Democrats will all agree that we do not care who is our candidate as much as we want Governor Daniels gone. This FSSA privatization project demonstrates everything that is wrong with the Daniels administration from theory to execution.