(Just The News)—Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz revealed over the weekend that widespread fraud in Medicaid has cost American taxpayers approximately $14 billion that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has uncovered.
Oz said that it was imperative that Medicaid be “cleaned up” so that it can help the people it was designed for, including people who are unable to work due to a severe disability and older people who are retired, instead of people who are abusing the system.
The administrator said on Sunday that Medicaid was a prime example of the abuse in federal funding that was discovered in a review by DOGE.
“There’s about $14 billion we’ve identified with DOGE, of folks who are duly enrolled wrongly in multiple states for Medicaid,” Oz said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” TV show. “You live in New Jersey, but you move to Pennsylvania, and which state gets your Medicaid? Turns out both states collect money from the federal government.”
Oz said part of the problem is also that there is no federal work requirement to get on Medicaid, which does exist for other federal assistance like food stamps.
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