$1.1 Trillion in “Improper” Medicaid Payments

There’s an article on Breitbart with a paywall that announces the DOGE has uncovered $1.1 trillion in “improper” Medicaid payments over the past ten years.  As Bill Clinton would say, it all depends on what the meaning of improper is.  A former colleague of mine at Loyola University Maryland once participated in a discussion of Medicaid fraud in Maryland.  He told me that the poverty pimps in attendance — the left-wing political activists employed by the myriad “nonprofit” organizations that help administer Medicaid — publicly made the argument that Medicaid fraud is a good  and needed thing because, in their opinion, the taxpayers are too stingy.  The federal government administers very little of the welfare state.  It has created and funded hundreds of these “nonprofits” to do the work for them, and they see their jobs as protecting and expanding Medicaid fraud, not policing it.  So that $1.1 trillion that DOGE has discovered is probably an underestimate.

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