The current Medicaid system is being exploited by widespread shell company schemes and fraudulent billing, necessitating aggressive government intervention and prosecutions.

“The Daily Wire is serving up the receipts for widespread fraud, which the president and vice president can wipe out entirely. Billions of dollars of Medicaid stolen from you, the taxpayer.”

Republican claims about widespread Medicaid fraud are not supported by the actual numbers, which show only a tiny fraction of spending is lost to improper payments.

“Federal reviewers identified only about 0.1% of total program spending as monetary losses where payments were determined to be incorrect. Now, that's going to be a lot lower than what you're hearing from people like J.D. Vance because he's focusing on what are called on what are called improper paym”

The exploitation of Medicaid by foreign-owned home health businesses to pay for tasks that should be performed out of familial duty is a flagrant and unacceptable form of fraud.

“Somalis are billing the government to provide companionship and conversation to their own family members. They're simply charging the taxpayers to perform acts of basic human decency that come naturally to everybody else.”