Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

And you could tell somebody got the hernia operation because they had the scar, they used a licensed nurse, they used a licensed doctor.

It was all documented.

Then some of the states said, you know, we're sending a whole lot of people to the hospital, and we don't have home care providers.

So if you let us pay family members to do home care, the patient won't have to go to the hospital.

They won't have to go to the emergency room, and we'll save a lot of money.

So it was well-intentioned.

But then what happened is people immediately started abusing it.

So today—

These are services that are normally played by family members, performed by family members.

Buying groceries for your grandmother and bringing them home, you now get paid for that.

Balancing your grandmother's checkbook, driving her to a medical visit.

So then you had this organized fraud where—and this is what happened in Minnesota—

These organized crime companies would come in and say, you designate this family, you designate all your children have autism now, even if they didn't.

And we're going to now pay providers for each of them.

And we'll give you a few thousand dollars to do it.

But then they would collect all the money.

And that's what was happening.

It's happening all over the country because there was no—it's very, very difficult.

The guardrails on that system were very pervious.

And anybody can defraud it.