Anonymous wrote:VA disability should be on the list. The entire system enables fraud.

Have family members doing this and it's probably the only thing I would welcome Elon inserting himself into.

Then they should be investigating the billing entities NOT the beneficiaries. This is a no brainer.

Laughing at MAGA-types who think this won't affect them.

clean it up.

Anonymous wrote:Biggest fraudster of them all is in Florida. Look no further.

Why should they look no further? They'll look at Florida and everyone else.

Your protected class mentality is ending.

Anonymous wrote:It makes a lot more sense to target Medicare, Medicaid, social security, and military spending than random one-off programs. That’s where at least 75% of the spending goes to. Just reduce each by 20% and we can get closer to a balanced budget.

In today's Washington Post, Matt Bai summarized David Stockman's -- yes, Reagan's budget director -- plan for getting rid of the deficit.

Stockman begins with a dramatic dismantling. He proposes eliminating 16 federal agencies, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. (Yes, eliminating, as in not existing anymore.) He would cut 50 percent of the funding for nine other agencies, including the FAA and NASA, and about a third of the budget from all the others. He also proposes eliminating farm subsidies and virtually all pro-business tax breaks. Leave aside for the moment that all of this would require congressional action. Stockman’s impressively detailed analysis shows that if you could wave a magic wand and do all the things he lays out, eliminating 535,000 federal jobs and shuttering dozens of buildings in the process, you would save approximately … wait for it … $400 billion. That’s 20 percent of Musk’s stated goal , and less than half of what he considers an acceptable fallback.

No worries, though, because Stockman then moves on to a radical rethinking of American foreign policy, in line with Trump’s “America First” mantra. Stockman would surrender what he calls the American empire, bringing home all the troops from Europe and Asia, in favor of a “Fortress America” approach that focuses on protecting the homeland. After junking all the aircraft carriers and overseas bases, Stockman projects an additional $500 billion in savings. That’s still not even halfway to Musk’s goal.

The rest, of course, has to come from social programs — mainly Social Security and Medicare, which are the biggest drivers of long-term spending, and which Trump has already vowed he won’t touch. Stockman would means-test these programs, which is something any serious plan to reduce long-term debt would have to do. To get to the $2 trillion target, Stockman takes means testing to an extreme: Social Security cuts would start for individuals at incomes above $75,000, with benefits phasing out entirely once you earn six figures.

Biggest fraudster of them all is in Florida. Look no further.

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Only Democrats imagine there’s no fraud in Medicaid or Medicare. One can wonder why that is.

Of course there is. Nobody is denying it. Florida, a red state, is a huge nexus area for it. But it's an involved process to unravel, involving multiple datasets, investigative bodies such as the FBI, etc. He's not to look at a payment file and magically find it.

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Unbelievable that we paid Angela Jolie 20 million dollars to visit Ukraine! Are you f g kidding me?????? And she's just one of many Hollywood grifters who took taxpayers money for their phony presence of support for Ukraine. Investigate that f k! out of USAID, I am so PISSED and so is just about everyone I talked to with about this agency. Living in DC forever I always understand the inside mission of USAID just from my neighbors and their positions with the agency, but come on, a bridge too far on so many levels. These countries can plant their own gd seeds.

I guess you don't remember the USO of WW2 and Korea?

There is Medicare and Medicaid fraud. An AI system to flag possible fraud would be an improvement. I don’t see that happening anytime soon. They employee a number of people who’ve been to medical school to check on billing now.

It makes a lot more sense to target Medicare, Medicaid, social security, and military spending than random one-off programs. That’s where at least 75% of the spending goes to. Just reduce each by 20% and we can get closer to a balanced budget.

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Anonymous wrote:Can illegal immigrants use Medicaid? Maybe he will start there.

No.

But they can get medicaid benefits thru many states, which is reimbursed by the federal tax payers.

States have to segregate state-only benefits covered through Medicaid from federally-reimbursable benefits. Some states cover groups that the federal program does not cover, but they cannot claim federal reimbursement for that. And if they did--by mistake--Elon's approach of looking at outgoing Treasury payments would not be the way they would be discovered. It would be a coding error found in a state-level system audit, which is already done every three years.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at Medicare and Medicaid makes a zillion times more sense than going after something like usaid or science research dollars. I detest trump but Medicare and Medicaid is where we are spending all of our country's money and it is where we need to look to figure out how not to go bankrupt.

Unbelievable that we paid Angela Jolie 20 million dollars to visit Ukraine! Are you f g kidding me?????? And she's just one of many Hollywood grifters who took taxpayers money for their phony presence of support for Ukraine. Investigate that f k! out of USAID, I am so PISSED and so is just about everyone I talked to with about this agency. Living in DC forever I always understand the inside mission of USAID just from my neighbors and their positions with the agency, but come on, a bridge too far on so many levels. These countries can plant their own gd seeds.

Democrats are SO corrupt.

Reminder: DOGE has no authority. None. They can "look" all they want, but it's ultimately up to Trump to pull the trigger.

I guess the people of West Virginia are about to reap what they’ve sown.