Kathleen Sebelius
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What DOGE could mean for Medicare and Medicaid?
And Ari, I think it's important that maybe listeners understand that Medicare has a much higher cost per person because of the age of the population. Medicaid is actually one of the most, if you will, by cost, efficient programs for women and children. About half of the births in the United States are paid for by Medicaid.
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What DOGE could mean for Medicare and Medicaid?
Fraud, waste, and abuse have always been a focus of the federal agencies. One of the things that happened with the Obama administration was really ramping up the kind of fraud, rooting out activities that we did in coordination with the Department of Justice. The notion that this is somehow an undiscovered area that people who are not at all familiar with the programs or the way they operate are
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What DOGE could mean for Medicare and Medicaid?
going to suddenly be able to identify and root out is just flat out wrong.
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What DOGE could mean for Medicare and Medicaid?
Well, I'm encouraged by what Mark is saying about what his knowledge is about people who are coming into the agency. But the proposals, Ari, that are out by, I would say, Republicans in Congress are very much aimed, particularly in the Medicaid program, at cutting benefits. They are not about fraud, waste, and abuse.
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What DOGE could mean for Medicare and Medicaid?
You can't really, I would suggest, get the kind of money that has been promised by DOGE. Even if you greatly ramp up fraud, waste, and abuse, you really have to go to the core of the benefits of these programs. And that is where I'm very wary of what the proposals are coming forward.
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What DOGE could mean for Medicare and Medicaid?
Well, I would say for now, until they are notified otherwise, assume the services that you signed up for, if you've just gone through Medicare open enrollment, or if you are a member of your state's Medicaid program, the services your provider, your drugs will continue to be provided and use them. I think it's very important at the state level, particularly that
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What DOGE could mean for Medicare and Medicaid?
Legislators in red and blue states understand that if Congress begins to change Medicaid rules, payments about Medicaid programs, it will blow up every state budget in this country. Medicaid is one of the most important parts of every state's budget. They rely heavily on a shared partnership with the federal government. And if those rules begin to change, everything else is at risk.
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What DOGE could mean for Medicare and Medicaid?
Economic development, the ability to fund education, the tax system. And states will be left in the really unfortunate position of having to pick and choose who gets to keep their coverage and who doesn't.
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ICE Student Arrests, HHS Cuts, Stefanik Nomination Pulled, China Trade City
Well, that's what I find so incredibly insulting. To me, what they're saying is there are 20,000 people working for HHS who do nothing.
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ICE Student Arrests, HHS Cuts, Stefanik Nomination Pulled, China Trade City
They're all made here.
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ICE Student Arrests, HHS Cuts, Stefanik Nomination Pulled, China Trade City
And there's yoga mats, chairs, it looks like parasols, all sorts of things here you can find.