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Michelle Bachmann's Husband Has Received Over $160,000 In Medicaid Payments

Looks like some more bad news for the Bachmann presidential campaign -- Bachmann's husband got $137,000 in Medicaid funds:

While Rep. Michele Bachmann has forcefully denounced the Medicaid program for swelling the "welfare rolls," the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005, according to new figures obtained by NBC News.

The previously unreported payments are on top of the $24,000 in federal and state funds that Bachmann & Associates, the clinic founded by Marcus Bachmann, a clinical therapist, received in recent years under a state grant to train its employees, state records show. The figures were provided to NBC News in response to a Freedom of Information request.

The clinic, based in Lake Elmo, Minn., describes itself on its website as offering "quality Christian counseling" for a large number of mental health problems ranging from "anger management" to addictions and eating disorders.

The $161,000 in payments from the Minnesota Department of Human Services to her husband's clinic appear to contradict some of Michelle Bachmann's public accounts this week when she was first asked about the extent to which her family has benefited from government aid. Contacted this afternoon, Alice Stewart, a spokeswoman for Bachmann, said the congresswoman was doing campaign events and was not immediately available for comment.

Questions about the Bachmann family's receipt of government funds arose this week after a Los Angeles Times story reported that a family farm in which Michelle Bachmann is a partner had received nearly $260,000 in federal farm subsidies.

When asked by anchor Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" about the story's assertion that her husband's counseling clinic had also gotten federal and state funds, Bachmann replied that it was "one-time training money that came from the federal government. And it certainly didn't help our clinic."

At another point, she said, "My husband and I did not get the money," adding that it was "mental health training money that went to the employees."

But state records show that Bachmann & Associates has been collecting payments under the Minnesota's Medicaid program every year for the past six years. Karen Smigielski, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services, said the state's Medicaid program is funded "about 50-50" with federal and state monies. The funds to Bachmann & Associates are for the treatment of low-income mentally ill patients and are based on a "fee for service" basis, meaning the clinic was reimbursed by Medicaid for the services it provided.

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Added: Jun-29-2011 Occurred On: Jun-29-2011
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Tags: Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell, Lies, Marcus Bachmann, Medicaid, Michael Isikoff, michele bachmann
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  • other than a 24,000 grant, which was open to be applied for by mental health care providers across the board, the money received actually went to patients, who used it to pay for services.

    You call this s story?

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  • it doesn't matter who runs on GOP side im not voting for obama and millions of people will vote the same. so go f-yourself obama media whores!!!!!!!!

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  • Lol at the hypocrisy.

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  • I'm laughing at the people who think shes qualified to run for president. Apparently you people really dont know much about her. You should look up her history and see how much she has flat out lied and the hypocritical shit she does all the time. That being said, she doesnt have a chance in hell of winning. The majority of the country isnt stupid and would never vote for her.

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    • @stevecore

      On the other hand, people picked Obama over Clinton and then put Obama into office, so don't put it past the country how stupid they could end up being.

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  • And rich democrats take tax breaks...so what!

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  • The hypocrisy.

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  • OMFG who are the 23 total fucking idiots who voted yes in this poll????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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  • She's like Palin, a bit smarter but the same attitude when it comes to income moral.

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  • These reporters are idiots. Of course he received payment! Should he have treated these low income people for nothing?

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    • @mikeoxlong82000

      Well, no... since his wife believes that Medicaid is rife with fraudulent claims and should be abolished... he should have put his morals where his mouth is and refused to accept Medicaid patients at all.

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  • Note to Democrat drones on LL: It's not working anymore. You've cried wolf one to many times. Nobody's listening.

    Race card's not working. Class warfare's not working. Scandals aren't working.

    Latest Rasmussen poll Obama 42% ANY Republican 46% and potential Republican super majorities in both houses.

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  • This is the most desperate reaching thing that I have seen to date.

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    • @big_tex

      Actually I think that the birther crap was. Of course then there was the whole swine flu vaccine was a liberal indoctrination serum. Then there is always the speech to schools by Obama being called a liberal indoctrination, when he told them to "stay in school".

      Of course the kicker is blaiming Obama for the economic mess....before he took office, is the best.

      So there are quite of few loony ones out there before nailing some dumb broad for saying she is against Medicad wh More..

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  • Waaahhh

    Why don't you POS's investigate Obama

    Notice how that leftist POS O'Donnell tries to slip in a fraud charge at about the 2:45 mark, but even the shill for Obama doesn't want to make that claim!!

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  • This country is in dire need of a complete economic and political collapse.

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    • @LickMyDuck Definitely. You just can't reform the system backwards. All three branches of government are in affect completely decoupled with the people, and are bought and paid for.

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  • she will never be prez

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