...and I missed it.
The president's amazing-even-for-this-crowd choice to oversee the federal family planning program, Eric Keroack, resigned after Medicaid officials in Massachusetts, where he had a private medical practice, questioned his billings. Keroack's suitability for the family planning post, in which he was responsible for overseeing the distribution of contraceptives to low-income women? He was director of a group that finds contraception "demeaning to women" and won't distribute it - even to married women.
I was upset when this fundie nutball was appointed. Keroack's appointment represented the worst in Christian moral activism, now his disgraceful resignation represents the worst in Christian moral hypocrisy. Is it really acceptable to deny women birth control while at the same time cheating our your medicare billing? I can hear the "greater good" arguments now. In order to fund the noble effort to deny birth control to poor women, it was necessary to take a few accounting liberties, all in the service of the lord of course.
The case against Keroack is more complex than simple billing fraud. Keroack is being investigated for issuing prescriptions to people who are not under his care, and providing services for which he is not licensed. It is an ethics thing. He does not have any.
