Since the rules for getting on welfare are so lax, the people who really need welfare get their share diluted; those who are most needy are the real victims.

Because of the huge sums paid doctors under Medicaid, other important aspects of welfare are neglected--there is little money or time to consider them.

Commissioner of Administration and Finance Anthony P. DeFalco confirmed this late last week when he told welfare mothers asking for a winter clothing allowance that they would just have to wait until the department straightened out its Medicaid administrative problems.

As the report says, "If we are ever going to bring about a solution to this chaotic and irresponsible mismanagement of public monies, then the governor must demand that the programs and the monies actually reach those citizens for whom it was intended."

Instead, the governor so far has attacked welfare mothers asking for winter clothes for their children, saying that they are trying to bring down the welfare system. So far, no legal action has been initiated against the doctors, merchants, and perhaps even welfare administrators who have been profiteering off the public welfare system.

The Cohen Report has been regarded throughout the country as an important document. It shows how welfare is big business for wealthier members of the community, and how the poor and the taxpayers are hurt most by a system that is supposed to benefit them.