Vice President JD Vance highlighted a case of Medicaid fraud as to why the government is targeting it. Despite Vance inviting all attorneys general, a group of Democratic attorneys general cited short notice as the reason for not attending.
Vice President JD Vance highlighted a case of Medicaid fraud as to why the government is targeting it. Despite Vance inviting all attorneys general , a group of Democratic attorneys general cited short notice as the reason for not attending.
In a roundtable discussion with leadership in the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud and attorneys general from around the country, Vice President JD Vance said one of the 15 cases in particular drew his attention. The man indicted was supposed to be providing services to allow elderly people to live full and independent lives, but instead was providing nothing, no services, no help, no check-ins.
The very man, the vulnerable elderly man that he was supposed to be protecting and looking after, was reimbursed by the taxpayer in order to do exactly that, and that man died. One day before he died, after months of being neglected by the caretaker who was getting reimbursed by the American people, one day before he died, he submitted his final reimbursement for services he never provided for a man he never cared for, and that man lived his final moments on this Earth, neglected, while a fraudster got rich by providing services that he never actually provided.
That case is a prime example of why the federal government is targeting fraud, he explained. These are not victimless crimes. Sometimes the most vulnerable people in our community are the ones who suffer when we don't take fraud seriously. Leadership in the fraud task force expressed determination to rapidly pursue fraud across the country.
Since the creation of the task force in March, leadership shared the following efforts already made in the months that followed: Deferring over $1.3 billion in suspicious Medicaid reimbursements. Identifying $6.3 billion in suspected fraudulent government contracts. According to Politico, Vance invited all attorneys general to attend the roundtable discussion, arguing that the fight against fraud should be a bipartisan effort. Only two representatives from states with Democratic attorneys general - Connecticut and Oregon - attended the event.
There were 13 Republican AGs represented on Tuesday, including Utah Attorney General Derek Brown. A group of Democratic attorneys general sent a letter to Vance, citing insufficient notice or an agenda as reasons they were unable to attend. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson blamed both the Obama and Biden administrations for worsening fraud in federal benefits systems and argued the U.S. has lost its culture of trust.
He also compared the benefits fraud to retail theft and organized scams increasingly seen across the country. The roundtable discussion was only open to the media for about 20 minutes before being closed for private discussion
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