Dr. Mehmet Oz
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Medicaid therefore should be matured and nurtured and for good reason protected by state leadership against this kind of fraud.
And if the federal government has to step in because our tax dollars are being abused, it's not going to be a happy day.
Well, I just interviewed a whistleblower yesterday from Minnesota.
She worked in state agency.
She's a Democrat, by the way, was raised a Democrat, was a Democrat.
And as soon as she began raising concerns about the fact that there was a disproportionate amount of money being taken by the Somalians in Minnesota, she was quickly ostracized and blocked off.
And she said the big problem there was they did not want to be perceived as racist.
They want to be Minnesota nice.
And that doesn't mean that you literally blind yourself to the reality of criminal activities.
But because she was willing to call that out, she was ostracized.
And I think that's part of the puzzle, that people aren't willing to just do the right thing.
Part of it is they recognize that by doing the right thing, they might actually look worse in the eyes of their voters.
Some people may not like the fact that you're going after criminal entities.
And these are dangerous groups that intimidate witnesses.
If you go to Flushing...
Queens in New York, you're not going to get any of the Chinese folks who live there to talk to you about the fraud that they're witnessing.
But we know there's tremendous amounts of fraud.
Human trafficking, by the way, lots of other bad things, because once you tolerate corruption, it spreads widely.
But there has to be a change in expectations.
Many states have normalized fraud.