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.”
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.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-musk-exposes-shocking-100-billion-waste-medicare/
Can we borrow him and his team and set them on the UK;s notional health service?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure, given the right incentive and the proper authority, Elon would be overjoyed to rip through the medical boondoggle in the UK ... as soon as he gets the US on track. LOL.
DeleteHealth care systems and hospitals do everything possible to up bill Medicare and Medicaid to make up for billions in free care that they are forced to provide due to the EMTALA law from 1986. Is it fraud? Yes. But without that money many facilities should go bankrupt and close. Address the issue of forced provision of free care if you want to effectively address the costs of healthcare.
ReplyDelete"Address the issue of forced provision of free care if you want to effectively address the costs of healthcare." That's a major portion of Medicare/Medicaid fraud.
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