Is it possible that we’ve passed the peak of Medicaid fraud? Like war-weariness, even the people who were all in from the start are beginning to tire of the exercise. Support and interest wane, as civilian leadership is increasingly pelted with correspondence about when this will be over.
In the case of fraud, people working the system to deprive taxpayers of what has to be trillions of dollars at this point, we should never grow weary. Nor should we become complacent, indifferent, or no longer be activated by new discoveries.
And we can’t just rely on memes to maintain our interest.
Government fraud was always expected, but not systemic indifference by the government to it. You figured that if you stole from the taxpayers, they’d come for you, and that’s likely true, but as it turns out, many have been milking the taxpayer teat for vast sums, for a very long time, without fear of discovery or consequence.
Minnesota, California, New York, Ohio, and every program are being pilfered in millions and billions, adding up to trillions. The latest scheme uncovered by independent journalist Nick Shirley, because the actual media is too busy pandering to partisan Trump-hating interests, is “senior centers for elderly Koreans and Chinese.”
A circulating clip shows Shirley confronting an employee at a center in Flushing, where he is presented with some hard numbers about the facility. Shirley asked him whether there were more than 7,000 members at this center, and he flatly denied it. When the employee asked where he got his figures, Shirley said these are all publicly available. The employee denies there are 7,000 members at this center, prompting Shirley to ask whether he was overbilling, since they’re charging $1,600 per patient. That’s millions per year.
“Your tax dollars are paying for elderly Koreans and Chinese to play ping pong and do tai chi, while the fraudsters give kickbacks to those who enroll,” Shirley wrote.
This fraud didn’t just start yesterday. It has been ongoing either without notice or with the advocacy of the watchdogs. Those would be the sleepy deep-state hounds our progressives are protecting. Career civil servants serving interests other than those of taxpayers.
Given how much noise the Democrats and their proglodyte boot polishers have made about the discovery of the fraud and efforts to uproot it, prosecute it, and end it, I think we can guess who it serves.
You might even go so far as to speculate that the identification, apprehension, and removal of illegals is more a concern that ICE or others might discover these ethnic-laundromats, tumbling your tax dollars into the hands of partisan interests who are financially motivated to support a candidate of the party willing to look the other way.
The Trump administration has already indicted many and prosecuted at least some, with more on the way. JD Vance and his anti-fraud taskforce are keeping grand juries and federal attorneys busy as they accumulate evidence that defending these programs is more about hiding the fraud than about protecting the benefits for people entitled to them.
If fiscal insolvency is a threat, but the programs have real value, Democrats ought to be applauding efforts to identify misuse of funds to protect them for our aging population.
They’re not quite the opposite.
Maybe ask them about that if you get the chance.
