The hyperinflation from trillions in fraud hurts the truly poor and the working class. The fraud millionaires buy fine real estate, etc., and drive up prices.
Medicaid should be reformed to reduce fraud incentives: A government store provides very basic food to prevent starvation (government cheese, powdered eggs, powdered milk, etc., from USDA surplus programs), and everyone must go to a government medical facility for minimum necessary care from government doctors (who probably could not get a job anywhere else).
Everyone should have to reapply for Medicaid, with multiple approvers to weed out government workers who approve the wrong people. Abusive workers should be arrested for fraud.
“A government store provides very basic food to prevent starvation (government cheese, powdered eggs, powdered milk, etc., from USDA surplus programs)”
ALDI sells cheese, eggs and normally milk cheap.
There are ALDIs in NYC and elsewhere.
“Medicaid should be reformed to reduce fraud incentives” — not possible. Wherever there is taxation there is fraud. The worst thing is the pols use programs like to this to blatantly buy votes. So it’s a double whammy — the pols using our tax money to buy votes to keep them in office and keep the gravy flowing and the crooks, fraudsters, cheats, mountebanks, and charlatans rob the system blind. But the pols turn a blind eye to all that fraud and cheating because they value getting themselves re-elected to that sinecure above everything else.
It’s been this way for millennia.
“everyone must go to a government medical facility for minimum necessary care from government doctors (who probably could not get a job anywhere else)”
Doctors can hire physician assistants. The doctors already cover the overhead.