Why is Medicare and Medicaid going broke? Two reasons. First, both allow illegal aliens to participate. In California, Medi-Cal—our Medicaid—has over one million illegal aliens sucking money from the Federal programs and the State treasury—billions of dollars.
Second, we have massive fraud—and the Democrats do not want Musk to stop it.
“However, the most explosive claim came later on Thursday night when Musk tweeted, “They wasted $100B of taxpayer money!”
Elon Musk’s comment may not be related to the recent audit from DOGE. It might refer to the 2024 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, which revealed that an estimated $100 billion in improper payments were made within the Medicare and Medicaid programs during Fiscal Year 2023.
“An estimated $100 billion in estimated improper payments were made in the Medicare and Medicaid programs in Fiscal Year 2023. This is 43% of government-wide improper payments that year,” DOGE wrote back in November.
If this is the case, expect more fraud to be uncovered in this system in the coming days.”
Cut the fraud and save the system. Or allow the Democrats to protect the fraud and we all lose.
Elon Musk: Medicare and Medicaid “Wasted $100B of Taxpayer Money”
by Jim Hᴏft, The Gateway Pundit, 2/7/25 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-musk-exposes-shocking-100-billion-waste-medicare/
Elon Musk, who is leading the charge under President Trump’s newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), announced on his social media platform X that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) wasted a staggering “$100 billion of taxpayer money.”
On Wednesday, Musk’s team, along with two senior veterans from the agency, has been meticulously reviewing the CMS’s payment and contracting systems, which are crucial for managing health insurance for approximately one in every four Americans, according to far-left USA Today.
“CMS has two senior Agency veterans – one focused on policy and one focused on operations – who are leading the collaboration with DOGE, including ensuring appropriate access to CMS systems and technology,” the agency said in a statement to Reuters.
The DOGE team was granted read-only access to the system.
Their mission, as outlined by Andrew G. Nixon, the HHS director of communications, is to identify “opportunities for more effective and efficient use of resources” in alignment with President Trump’s efficiency agenda.
However, the narrative has quickly escalated from efficiency to accusations of rampant waste and potential fraud.
“This is where the big money fraud is happening,” Musk tweeted on Wednesday in response to a post suggesting that aides using DOGE are searching the Medicare agency payment systems for fraud.
However, the most explosive claim came later on Thursday night when Musk tweeted, “They wasted $100B of taxpayer money!”
Elon Musk’s comment may not be related to the recent audit from DOGE. It might refer to the 2024 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, which revealed that an estimated $100 billion in improper payments were made within the Medicare and Medicaid programs during Fiscal Year 2023.
“An estimated $100 billion in estimated improper payments were made in the Medicare and Medicaid programs in Fiscal Year 2023. This is 43% of government-wide improper payments that year,” DOGE wrote back in November.
If this is the case, expect more fraud to be uncovered in this system in the coming days.
Medicare currently covers about 68 million Americans, primarily those over 65 and individuals with disabilities, while Medicaid serves approximately 73 million low-income citizens.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), from June 2024 through October 2024, CMS suspended 850 agents and brokers’ Marketplace Agreements for reasonable suspicion of fraudulent or abusive conduct related to unauthorized enrollments or unauthorized plan switches. These agents and brokers are now prohibited from participating in Marketplace enrollment, including receiving related commissions.
The Department of Justice has also been active in combating healthcare fraud.
In recent years, the average loss associated with the schemes prosecuted by the Health Care Fraud Unit has steadily risen.
In June 2024, the Department of Justice announced charges against 193 defendants, including 76 medical professionals, for their alleged involvement in fraudulent schemes amounting to approximately $2.75 billion in false claims.
Since 2007, the Health Care Fraud Unit has charged more than 5,400 defendants with fraudulently billing Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurers more than $27 billion.
