Posts by Carter Wrenn

After Lanier Cansler figured out how to end run the Medicaid appeals process (so he could cut patients’ home care pretty much however he wanted) he was ready to take the next step.   He’d already given CCME Corporation (his former client from his lobbying days) a $25 million no bid contract, so all he…

After Secretary Lanier Cansler gave a 25$ million no bid contract  (to his former client CCME Corporation) and promised legislators that meant he’d be able to cut in-home care to Medicaid patients $50 million (because, he said, 45% of the patients were cheats) he ran into a problem.  When he ran all the patients’ records through…

A few years ago Secretary Lanier Cansler’s Department decided to ‘reform’ care for the mentally ill and when they finished the state’s mental hospitals were in a shambles and schizophrenics were being handcuffed to beds in Emergency Rooms in local hospitals because the state had nowhere to care for them.   Next Cansler’s Department decided…

A couple of months ago an 80 year old man on Medicaid received a letter from Secretary of Health and Human Services Lanier Cansler’s department telling him his in-home medical care had been cut.  He appealed the ruling, proved he needed the care, and won.   But he still didn’t get it.  What happened?  …

A few years ago the Department of Health and Human Services set out to reform mental care and wrecked it.    Next it set out to reform in-home care for Medicaid patients and wrecked it.    And, now, it’s got another – $265 million dollar – train wreck on its hands.   Back before he…