Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz is reporting that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified a massive amount of fraud, waste, and abuse in the nation’s Medicaid system.
“There’s about $14 billion we’ve identified with DOGE, of folks who are duly enrolled wrongly in multiple states for Medicaid,” Oz told Fox News.
“You live in New Jersey, but you move to Pennsylvania, and which state gets your Medicaid? Turns out both states collect money from the federal government,” Oz continued.
That is hardly the only source of waste, Oz said and he said that Medicaid needs to be “cleaned up” to stop the waste of tax dollars.
He added that recent moves by Congress to add work requirements to welfare programs is a good move.
“I think there’s a moral hazard if we don’t, because you’ve got people who are not working who could work, who should work, and it’s better for them and better for the country if they do,” he said.
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