Jon Slavet
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Okay, so it's about $160 billion.
Okay.
I mean, it's larger than the annual budget of the city of New York.
Okay.
The next line item.
It's the largest line item.
That's right.
Just like our federal government is a healthcare organization with an army.
Right.
So California is not that different.
One hundred and sixty billion on health care.
It's estimated by the federal government.
And this is not just this is well before Trump that Medicare fraud is at least 10 to 15 percent.
Okay, so we suffer from that in California as well.
So out of that 160 billion, 30 billion of which comes from the California State General Fund, 130 billion of which comes from the feds.
There's a huge amount of fraud, which we should get to the bottom of.
Now, I know that this is a common talking point.
But it's a real issue.
I'm sure you have.
Of course, of course.