Expert breaks down how Trump's health officials are trying to prove that Medicaid itself is wasteful.
Expert breaks down how Trump's health officials are trying to prove that Medicaid itself is wasteful
Published
August 5, 2026 6:00AM (EDT)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz speaks at a fireside chat in the National Press Building on February 02, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
As Democrats fought to further expand Medicaid, they ignored that they were expanding fraud at the same time.
The Trump administration is expanding its growing Medicaid fraud crackdown to Florida. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
Vice President JD Vance said the administration will audit states’ Medicaid Fraud Control Units and threatened to “turn off”…
The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to crack down on fraud in the federal Medicaid program.
Medicaid fraud, improper payments, and oversight failures have been mounting for years. And many of the abuses are anything but…
"... we also have some states, mostly blue states, unfortunately, that do not take Medicaid fraud very seriously..."
