EDITORIAL: Colorado’s mushrooming Medicaid begs for abuse

“Build it, and they will come,” the popular expression goes.

We’d add, fund it — and the hustlers will come, too.

Hence, the findings of an in-depth investigation by The Gazette’s news staff last month into alleged, rampant overbilling of the state’s Medicaid program by a network of service providers for the homeless in Aurora. The Gazette found the network — referred to as, “The Program” — lured dozens of homeless people with promises of free housing and cash, and reaped tens of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements…

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