Dr. Oz confronts Tim Walz on Medicaid Fraud

The Trump administration is apparently tired of the Walz administration slow-walking their way through Minnesota's Medicaid fraud fiasco. It's apparent because Dr. Oz, "the administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is demanding Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz take a more 'aggressive approach' in confronting fraud or risk losing federal Medicaid funding." We learned that Dr. Oz told Gov. Walz in his letter that "Recent findings from multiple investigations, combined with ongoing vulnerabilities across several service areas, indicate systemic issues requiring immediate action." TRANSLATION: You've got a mess and you need to fix it fast.

The article opens by saying "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is demanding Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz take a more 'aggressive approach' in confronting fraud or risk losing federal Medicaid funding." Tim Walz is trying his best to polish his tarnished image on this. Frankly, his image on this issue needs a few years of polish. I don't often highlight other blogs here but I will this time. Hugh Hewitt interviewed Powerlineblog's Scott Johnson recently. This interview is one of the best interviews to find out what's fueling this scandal:

This isn't incompetence. I can't emphasize that enough. This is old-fashioned corruption. If $50,000 gets out the door unnoticed, that might be incompetence. When $8,000,000,000 sneaks out the door, that's too much to be incompetence. Period.

Further, too many of these businesses up to be identical or almost identical. They were established to capitalize on these programs' weaknesses. That isn't coincidental. That's intentional.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson has said that Minnesota’s "massive fraud schemes form a web that has stolen billions of dollars in taxpayer money."

These schemes include the $250 million free food scandal, which saw a nonprofit known as Feeding Our Future and its partner sites defraud a program intended to help feed needy children.

Again, this isn't coincidental. It's intentional. It's happened too many times for it to be coincidental.

Finally, there is a ruthlessness to this fraud. The programs were intended to help people. Instead, they benefited the oligarch class. That's cruelty personified.

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