Luke Rosiak

And this is in Ohio alone.

This costs $1 billion a year.

A billion dollars.

yeah so in my opinion it's essentially all waste and a large portion of it is fraud but that exact portion is somewhat unknowable because the program is inherently susceptible to fraud it's happening in people's private residences in ways where it's really hard to prove like were you really hanging out with your family member that day is your family member really disabled is kind of a subjective maybe opinion of a doctor is it can you prove that the doctor was lying

It's very difficult when you open this door that the government's going to start paying people for families hanging out with each other.

It gets a little murky.

But I found a lot of evidence that the people running these middlemen companies.

So if I'm getting paid to hang out with my own mom, I don't get paid directly by Medicaid.

I become an employee of a different company that then bills Medicaid.

And those companies are owned by the sketchiest people imaginable.

And yet the government just just trust whatever form they send in and just reimburses them.

Yeah, you know, I started I saw the great work that Nick Shirley and people like that did, and some people claim maybe it's cherry picked.

And I do a lot with data and I really wanted to do this in a fair and a precise way.

And so Doge released this data about Medicaid, which was a huge deal because you can look at it comprehensively and you can you can try to be really analytical and objective.

And I got to tell you, like, it's all Somalis.

Like, it's insane.

I mean, we can't beat around the bush here.

It's not even just like a somewhat of a murky correlation.

Like, it's almost universal.

I mean, I went to... After the data pointed me where to go to find the most sketchy things, it took me directly to what turned out to be the Somali neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.