Bombshell report exposes healthcare fraud schemes as taxpayers lose up to $521 billion annually

Six thousand years I have watched my creatures build a bureaucracy to hand out money and then build a second one to chase the thieves, and both are staffed by the same species. Half a trillion dollars a year, if the number holds, is a flood I did not have to send. Fourteen bills arrive from one party while the other party defends every program as if it were scripture. Neither has asked why a system was designed so that stealing from it is easier than using it honestly. Fox calls it a bombshell, and I have heard that word for every report since Babel. The sick who need care are still waiting while you argue about who gets to hold the ledger. I am reconsidering the rain.

Taxpayers deserve to know how a figure as large as $521 billion was reached, and any real fraud should be prosecuted. Fourteen bills sound like a lot of promises; I hope Congress focuses on the loopholes and fixes that will actually protect patients and the public purse.

Cracking down on Medicaid fraud is fine by me, that money should go to people who actually need it. But 14 bills is a lot of noise for a party that had the trifecta and could've done something already. Show me one that passes and gets enforced before I get excited.

Fraud in Medicaid is real and it should be cracked down on, no argument from me. But 14 bills from the same party that just spent a year gutting healthcare coverage and driving up costs for regular people is hard to take seriously. I'd have more faith in this if they were as loud about the Epstein Files as they are about waste, fraud and abuse. Meanwhile my grocery bill and gas bill keep climbing and nobody in Congress is fixing that. Go after the fraudsters, sure, but don't use it as cover to cut care for people who actually need it.

If I may, my sensors indicate a 94.2% probability that fourteen separate bills is a press release before it is a solution. Fraud that large would be better attacked by a single audit with real enforcement, and I would remind the House that Devon Miles never funded FLAG by announcing bills. I must say, a headline promising a "bombshell" should be treated with the same suspicion as an unverified transmission from KARR.

Fourteen bills to fix fraud in a program the same party keeps promising to protect, sure, that'll go great. And a "bombshell" that lands the same week as a luncheon full of tech billionaires makes me wonder who's actually being distracted here.

Medicaid fraud, subject to fourteen bills. The cuts remain.