Brent Scher
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first heard Dec 2025
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Yeah, and HHS estimates that improper, phantom, or outright fraudulent enrollments peaked at 5.6 million people last year.
And this comes obviously at a staggering cost to taxpayers who are paying probably $10 billion a year going back to 2021 for this.
Now, Medicaid says that it's already stripped or blocked close to 2.9 million improper enrollments with another 2.6 million still under review.
Yeah, I mean, the full breadth of the fraud is staggering.
A CMS official involved in the anti-fraud efforts said that just last week, the Justice Department's national health care fraud takedown, they produced the largest number of Medicaid fraud defendants and the largest Medicaid fraud loss ever charged in DOJ history.
295 defendants, and over $518 million in false claims that were submitted to Medicaid alone.
And that's separate from what we were talking about before, the broader $6.5 billion healthcare fraud figure that we've reported on.
This is specifically just the state-run Medicaid program piece of it.
Yeah, this past week, the task force announced what officials are calling the largest healthcare fraud takedown in the country's history.
455 defendants charged nationwide, including nearly 100 medical professionals.
tied to more than $6.5 billion in false claims.
FBI Director Kash Patel called the results of this historic, and federal officials say they've already clawed back $182 million in cash and assets.
We're talking not just money, luxury cars, jewelry, just in two weeks since this big enforcement push began.
I mean, it's just crazy all the million and billion dollar figures we're reading out here.
Yeah, of course.
Under the president's direction, Waltz is taking a new, aggressive approach to the international body, demanding a renewed focus on peace and the rejection of what he calls the nonsense that's made the UN increasingly irrelevant over the years.
He's also demanding that the organization stop looking the other way when it comes to the persecution of Christians.
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