Krauder sounds a lot like JPP libs, who claim to hate rich folks sucking from the public trough. Except in this case it is his trough.

“A Cone Health official has fanned the flames of controversy over changes to the State Health Plan by sending a blunt, accusatory email that urges the plan’s leaders to “burn in hell.”

Cone’s assistant director of finance Frank Kauder said in a July 1 message to the health plan’s mostly volunteer board of trustees that changes they made in hospital reimbursement were driven by insensitive, partisan political considerations.

“Your insane plan would financially destroy every hospital in this state, but that’s your ultimate goal, isn’t it (?),” Kauder said in the message to state Treasurer Dale Folwell and the other nine board members.

“Poor people generally don’t vote for your party, so you want them to die,” Kauder wrote, ending the missive by calling the board members “sorry SOB’s.”
https://www.journalnow.com/news/loca...fb7816165.html

As State Treasurer, an elected position, my buddy Dale Folwell has already saved the state billions by streamlining how the state employees retirement funds are invested along with dozens of low profile improvements. This is just a sample of the pure bullshit that he has to put up with.

The dispute stems from a new, health-care reimbursement formula that Folwell and the plan’s trustees adopted for next year.

That formula aims to cut health-care costs partly by capping what hospitals and other medical providers can charge plan members for certain procedures at defined percentages above admittedly frugal Medicare rates.

For example, the revised plan would pay large hospitals 160% of the Medicare rate for inpatient care and 230% of what Medicare allows for outpatient services.