White House to pause $259M in Minnesota Medicaid dollars in fraud crackdown

https://www.startribune.com/white-house-to-pause-quarter-billion-in-minnesota-medicaid-dollars-as-part-of-fraud-crackdown/601588737

Minnesota has a lower fraud rate in these programs than the country as a whole, so this is just revenge for forcing ICE to do a partial pullout.

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WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 pts · 163d (4 replies)

fraud crackdown

Bullshit.

It's because Minnesota dared to stand up to crybaby Trump after he sent his ICE goons in there to terrorize and murder people because Tim Walz said mean things about him.

originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 19 pts · 163d (2 replies)

yep "medicaid fraud" is a really strange way for news outlets to say "political revenge"

silence7@slrpnk.net · 15 pts · 163d (1 reply)

Yeah, I expect it of the New York Times, which is afraid of losing access. Local outlets have nothing to lose by speaking truth to power

meh@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 163d

startrib isnt local news anymore, its just another corp holding that reposts the same mediocre shit as the nytimes

Eldritch@piefed.world · 2 pts · 163d

You misread. The crackdown is fraudulent.

Kalon@feddit.online · 7 pts · 163d (2 replies)

They will loose this battle just like they lost all others.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 163d (1 reply)

Yes, but cause a lot of suffering in the meantime

Kalon@feddit.online · 4 pts · 163d

Yup. The administration in a nutshell.

TommySoda@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d

If that's the case they should just withhold all the taxes people are paying into Medicaid.

Limonene@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d (1 reply)

Minnesota really needs to escrow all federal tax withheld until the federal government resumes paying what it owes.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d

why stop there? All states should do that.