Dr. Oz

We're going to start dreaming the swamp of the crooks that have inhabited it and are defrauding us.

There are three bold actions.

The first...

And for many of you, maybe the most important is we're going to, for the first time, take a massive action to defer funds to a state.

Let's start with this Medicaid program in Minnesota, which serves pregnant women.

Medicaid takes care of our children.

53% of kids are born in the poverty.

They are supported through Medicaid.

Disadvantaged seniors, individual disabilities.

It's imponderable that you would take advantage of these precious programs, yet they are putting it at risk, all of it, by stealing the money.

So it's our duty to preserve Medicaid, and what we're going to do is identify the scammers, which we have done in Minnesota.

We've identified that they've hijacked, in particular, a certain part of the Minnesota Medicaid system.

Said differently, and I'll just put the numbers out there, it's going to be $259 million of deferred payments for Medicaid to Minnesota, which we're announcing as I speak to Governor Walz and his team.

And that's based on an audit of the last three months of 2025.

Restated, a quarter billion dollars is not going to be paid this month to Minnesota for its Medicaid claims.

Now that's a million, rather a quarter billion dollars of money that's your money.

It's your taxpayer money.

And these home and community-based services, which again are services that are typically things you would do for your family, but for whatever reason your family's not there to provide them, are very hard to audit.

And for that reason, there's been a lot of slippage.

The guardrails have not been well maintained, and if you're not serious about the integrity of the program, you'll see these problems happening in your state, which is why Minnesota's not alone, although they're the first to receive this action.