Pfoghorn Leghorn’s Big Deal

By FITSNews || S.C. Attorney General Henry “Foghorn Leghorn” McMaster was (ahh say, ahh say) strutting his stuff around the barnyard last Friday.  Why whatever for?  Well, his office announced that the Palmetto state would be receiving $11 million from Pfizer as part of a settlement reached with the company over its alleged improper promotion of certain drugs.

A year ago, McMaster turned down $5.5 million for South Carolina as part of a multi-state settlement to pursue his own case against the drug maker, which concerned a lot of folks seeing as McMaster is literally dumber than barnyard dirt.

Well, apparently even blind hogs … or boastful roosters, in this case … find acorns every once in awhile.

“We said South Carolina would do better, and we did,”  Foghorn’s mouthpiece Mark Plowden told the Associated Press on Friday.

What a big win, right?  South Carolina is getting more than twice as much money as it was originally slated to receive (ahh say, ahh say), and it’s all thanks to the perseverance of a man who we’re guessing cannot even spell the word “perseverance.”

Now … where is that money going?

Wait … what?  Something like that actually matters?

Yeah … we hate to rain (perverts) on McMaster’s parade but it really does matter … especially when the money is going directly into the state’s Medicaid coffers (a.k.a. up in smoke).

Seriously, Medicaid funding in South Carolina (which accounts for roughly a third of our $21.1 billion budget) gets about 8 percent more expensive each year, and our state’s fragmented delivery system as well as lack of fraud protections and eligibility reform make it (like our public schools) nothing but another bottomless taxpayer pit that produces increasingly disappointing results.

In fact, according to our best estimates, this wasteful bureaucracy will eat up that extra $5.5 million that McMaster “won” for “South Carolina” by the time you finish reading this sentence.

So yeah … nice work, Foghorn.