Appearing on Fox News, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz commented on the massive, ongoing fraud catastrophe in California and utterly obliterated Democratic Party talking points about what he is exposing and shutting down, noting that hundreds of hospice facilities have already been discovered to be fraudulent and 100% of those shut down have been frauds.
That came when he was asked what is going on with the fraud and if rooting out fraud is just a guise for slashing Medicaid: “What is the response to Democrats arguing that this rooting out of fraud, that it’s cutting Medicaid services? What is your response to that?”
Responding, Dr. Oz argued that even if those who are cut off very occasionally shouldn’t be, then on the whole the shutdown is quite justified. He said, “Not at all. They know it’s manufactured. That’s why, when they say this sort of, you know, like she mentioned, the possibility that you might, once in a while, hurt someone that’s innocent.”
Giving an example of that, he pointed out how allowing fraud has caused huge problems and suffering for the innocent, saying, “I argue that if you take a child with autism and you give them the services they need, you need a great service. It’s the right thing to do, where great people will always help folks in need. But if every mother is pretending because they’re getting paid, that the children in neighborhood have autism, which is bad for those kids, by the way.”
He then noted that such is very obviously what is going on, saying, “And you’re seeing that, and we’re seeing that Minnesota took a budget from $3 million to $400 million you do that by creating programs and manufacturing services that aren’t supposed to be used.”
Returning to his point about how allowing fraud ruins the whole system for everyone, he then said, “But what you’re doing is you’re hurting the child who really has autism because they can’t get access to services, and you’re corrupting the entire system.”
That’s when he dropped the truth bomb and exposed what’s going on in California, saying, “We’re seeing the same thing in California with hospice where you have 1/3 of all the hospices Katie in the entire country are in Los Angeles, not California, just LA. I mean, how many people are dying there”
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He continued, “We have stopped payments to 450 hospices in California. Guess what? Not one has called us asking to reinstitute them. Wow. They may change their minds over time, but in 10 weeks, we’ve shut down 450 payment systems to these guys, that’s representing at least $600-700 million, just this just this year, and no one’s complaining.”
Watch him comment on the massive problem here:
Dr Oz confirms that after stopping payments to 450 hospices in California, still NOT ONE has called and asked to have their payments reinstated
450 hospices out of 450 hospices in California were fraud
He says collectively they stole $750 million in just on year pic.twitter.com/t6iBl2flQL
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Summarizing what Dr. Oz had revealed in a viral post on X, one account said, “Dr Oz confirms that after stopping payments to 450 hospices in California, still NOT ONE has called and asked to have their payments reinstated. 450 hospices out of 450 hospices in California were fraud. He says collectively they stole $750 million in just on year”.