Auditor Merritt on Health Care

Times are tough, and the cost of health care is skyrocketing.  You live within a budget -- and state government should do so as well.  During these challenging economic times, it is more important than ever for state government to spend your tax dollars wisely. 

As State Auditor, Leslie Merritt is working to ensure that state government spends your money wisely -- especially when it comes to state-sponsored health care initiatives.

Auditor Merritt Takes Action to Improve Health Insurance for Children

A report by Auditor Merritt revealed that the state could save nearly $16 million and use the money to provide about 10,000 more children with health insurance by switching responsibility for handling medical bills from one state office to another.  more...

Auditor Merritt Takes Action to Reform the State Mental Health System

Auditor Merritt has exposed fraud, waste and abuse in our state's mental health system -- an area in which such abuses impact some of our state's most vulnerable citizens.  At the Albemarle Mental Health Center, the director was paid more than twice the standard salary.  At that same center, an administrative assistant was paid a higher salary than Governor Mike Easley.  Auditor Merritt called for a statewide system of fiscal management for all of the state's 25 mental health agencies and called on the state Department of Health and Human Services to require more detailed accountability from the agencies.

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