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Dr. Oz dishes on blue state fraud: it’s an intentional feature, not a flaw
Just the News ^ | 5/14/26 | By John Solomon

Posted on 05/15/2026 11:27:03 AM PDT by CFW

Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s point man for Medicare and Medicaid, says the billions of entitlement fraud being uncovered in Democrat states may be intentionally driven by politics rather than incompetence.

“I do think it's a feature for some of these states,” Oz told Just the News in a wide-ranging interview Thursday night in which he detailed why the administration led by Vice President JD Vance temporarily pulled $1.3 billion in Medicaid funding from California and uncovered foreign fraudsters stealing taxpayer welfare monies.

“Republicans always suspected there was fraud of this magnitude. Democrats feel embarrassed that it's gotten this bad, and they don't know what happened to all the money they thought they were helping people with. So it's a great issue for us to drive home,” he said.

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Oz announced this week his agency shut down 800 hospice centers suspected of being empty, fraudulent shells.

“It highlights the reality that the fraud had actually created such a deep corruption, such a deep rot in the system, that when someone finally began to take action, they all scurried like rats into the corners. They never thought anybody would come after them,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; coverup; democrats; democrattruth; droz; fraud; healthcare; medicaid; medicare; theft

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Yeah, it's deliberate. The money flows back into Democrat's pockets.

Fraud, fraud, everywhere there is fraud. What has auditors, inspectors general, and oversight commissions been doing for the past two decades?

1 posted on 05/15/2026 11:27:03 AM PDT by CFW
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“Vance cuts $1.3 billion in California Medicaid, pauses hospice care”

https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_4f19cb64-c13e-49da-b8c8-63a3d881c2cc.html

“White House cuts $1.38B in Medicaid payments to CA over suspicions of fraud” [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq5Dx4FsYbc


2 posted on 05/15/2026 11:29:39 AM PDT by CFW
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The Democrat Party has found that by bloating with myriads of wasteful spending programs it can conduct its thefts behind a smokescreen of incompetence.


3 posted on 05/15/2026 11:33:00 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: CFW

Smart? Yeah, they’re smart alright. Smart in a bad way.


4 posted on 05/15/2026 11:40:10 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: CFW

Of course it’s intentional. It’s planned at the highest level with all the appropriate bribes and kickbacks.

It makes the old mafia look like amateurs.


5 posted on 05/15/2026 11:55:48 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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I think we’re going to find out that upwards of a trillion dollars has been stolen in the box last few years alone.


6 posted on 05/15/2026 11:57:59 AM PDT by subterfuge
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To: BenLurkin

Yep the fraud is a massive rat money laundering op and their clueless idiot voters would probably be fine with it if they ever found out.


7 posted on 05/15/2026 11:58:56 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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thats why the party is low on cash now.

USAID was a huge slush fund for them


8 posted on 05/15/2026 12:03:40 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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Democrats are supposed to be the advocates for working people and the poor. And yet, here we see our social services for these folks being looted to make foreigners wealthy.

Are ANY Democrats angry about this? This money is being stolen from their supposed constituents and they could care less. Worse, they’re enabling it!


9 posted on 05/15/2026 12:07:04 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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Exactly, it’s their own little political slush fund. I really hope Dr. Oz doesn’t believe this: “Democrats feel embarrassed that it’s gotten this bad, and they don’t know what happened to all the money they thought they were helping people with.”

They know FULLY what’s happening as they’ve negotiated the terms of the deals. “You get X dollars per year. You will kick up Y% of that money to us via the following conduits ...”


10 posted on 05/15/2026 12:09:15 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: cableguymn

Yep. I bet 90% of USAID funds were going to Democrat’s banking accounts.


11 posted on 05/15/2026 12:09:49 PM PDT by CFW
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Don’t worry, Janet Mills is on it!!

“Mills Claims She’s Tough on Fraud In Response to Vance Visit”

https://www.themainewire.com/2026/05/mills-claims-shes-tough-on-fraud-in-response-to-vance-visit/

“U.S. Suspends 1,500 Maine Borrowers Amid Investigation Into $93 Million PPP Loan Fraud Following Vance Visit”

https://www.themainewire.com/2026/05/u-s-suspends-1500-maine-borrowers-amid-investigation-into-93-million-ppp-loan-fraud-following-vance-visit/


12 posted on 05/15/2026 12:12:25 PM PDT by CFW
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I AM CERTAIN I HEARD THAT CALIF MEDICAID WAS PAYING FOR RENT & GROCERIES. SOME TIME AGO.....


13 posted on 05/15/2026 12:13:29 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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