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Stepping into the discursive fray, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), provided detailed insights into the government's investigative efforts. Dr. Oz explained that Democratic efforts to dismiss concerns about Medicaid misuse are unfounded, referencing recent investigations revealing a substantial financial misallocation.
According to Dr. Oz, over the past few months, investigative teams uncovered that more than a billion dollars—an astronomical sum—had been paid by U.S. taxpayers to illegal immigrants enrolled under Medicaid. These findings are not isolated to a single state but span across about half a dozen states, including well-known blue states such as California, New York, Illinois, and others with extensive benefit programs.