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Dr. Mehmet Oz appeared on Greg Kelly Reports this week to sound the alarm about what he called a staggering assault on American taxpayers, warning that “our most vulnerable people are at risk” as crooked operators siphon off Medicaid and Medicare dollars. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services boss said the administration will hold Minnesota accountable and is scheduling a major press briefing to outline a nationwide crackdown on these criminal networks.
Oz told viewers that career officials inside CMS were stunned by the scope and sophistication of the Minnesota schemes and that investigators are uncovering ties to organized criminal groups operating across state lines. He singled out suspicious patterns in home health, hospice, and durable medical equipment billing and warned of foreign criminal involvement that must be stopped before more taxpayer dollars vanish.
This isn’t conjecture — federal prosecutors have already unmasked massive fraud rings, including the Feeding Our Future indictments and other prosecutions that stole pandemic-era funds meant for children and the needy. The Department of Justice and local prosecutors have filed sweeping charges and secured convictions that demonstrate these weren’t isolated mistakes but deliberate, organized thefts from programs designed to help Americans in need.
Minnesota officials have prosecuted individual scammers and state authorities have tied schemes to brazen billing for programs like home and community-based services, but questions remain about who benefited and where the money flowed. Oz has even warned some stolen funds may have reached foreign terror-linked networks, a claim that has alarmed Washington; at the same time, national outlets note prosecutors have not yet proven a direct funneling of funds to terror groups, which makes urgent federal investigation and transparency all the more necessary.
This crisis in Minnesota is the poster child for a larger national rot: Dr. Oz has previously warned that millions of people are enrolled fraudulently in exchange and Medicaid systems, a figure that should make every taxpayer furious and every responsible official redouble enforcement. If the federal government is to protect seniors, veterans, and working families, it must root out fraud, close loopholes, and stop the waste draining local hospitals and services.
Conservatives should demand nothing less than accountability: governors and state bureaucracies that let these scams flourish must answer to voters, and the federal government should cut off funding streams to jurisdictions that fail to act. Dr. Oz and the administration are doing the right thing by exposing the rot; now it’s on patriotic Americans and principled leaders to press for prosecutions, reforms, and the return of stolen dollars to the people they were meant to serve.
