Free Republic

🇺🇸 The DOGE team dropped the largest Medicaid dataset in history: 10.32 GB of aggregated claims, procedures, and payments (2018–2024) open-sourced for anyone to download and analyze. Goal: crowdsource fraud detection in an $800B+ program. Already spotlighting cases like Minnesota’s $20M autism therapy scam and massive outliers. The hunt for waste, fraud, and abuse just got crowdsourced. Source: @doge_hhs, @elonmusk

In July 2019, Minnesota state officials spotted early signs of fraud that would eventually siphon away more than $1 billion in taxpayer money, but they quickly faced pressure from leaders of the charitable group Feeding Our Future to stop asking questions, according to multiple former employees at the Minnesota Department of Education.