America’s healthcare system is collapsing and hemorrhaging billions—and two of the country’s top health officials are coming in to stop the bleeding.
At the heart of the crisis are two programs: Medicare and Medicaid.
But as Dr. Mehmet Oz, the new Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, explained in a recent address, these safety nets have become ripe for abuse.
Oz pulled back the curtain on one of the biggest schemes taxpayers have never heard of.
“The fraud, waste and abuse is in three different categories,” he said.
“The fraud, which, by the way, we find quite a bit of. There's about $14 billion we've identified with DOGE of folks who are duly enrolled, wrongly, in multiple states for Medicaid.”
The scam sounds almost too simple to be real.
A person moves from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, for example, but never officially updates their enrollment.
As a result, both states bill the federal government for that one person’s Medicaid coverage. And no one catches it.
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