Josh Shapiro
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Here as governor, I've maintained a similar focus through my office of inspector general, rooting out fraud, through making sure, by the way,
We're not fronting you money when you're going out and providing, say, human services.
You have to submit for reimbursements and you've got to make sure you prove that you did that work.
When we find that someone took advantage of the system, we're referring them to prosecutors.
I'm proud of the fact that we've had more Medicaid fraud prosecutions in Pennsylvania.
I think any other state, maybe there was one other.
We're certainly toward the top of that list.
proud of the fact that we've identified that.
We've sent it to prosecutors and we've addressed it.
If we can address it administratively, we do.
If not, we understand that those things need to be prosecuted.
We should have a zero tolerance policy for that.
And we should make sure that if we're going to utilize a hard earned dollar of a taxpayer for a purpose, like providing someone with health care that they need, we got to make sure that that dollar makes its way to that person so they get their health care.
And, you know, our folks are working really hard on that in Pennsylvania.
And then there's this movement to- You should be paying more taxes in Pennsylvania, man.
It seems to be getting momentum.
I mean, I'll just say we've cut taxes seven times in Pennsylvania.
We've got one of the lowest income taxes in the entire country.
That's why I'm joking with you.
You should come to Pennsylvania and locate here.