The speaker argues that claims of high fraud in Medicaid and SNAP are misleading because they conflate clerical error rates with intentional fraud.

“And in fact, what she is doing is she is referring to error rates. And the same is true of Medicaid. By the way, error rates mean that when they fill out the the documentation, they have coded something wrong. Or if for Medicaid or in the case of SNAP, sometimes it means that there there were overpa”