RUSH EXCERPT:VANCE: "Today we’re sitting across fifty Medicaid programs we are sending letters that will require them to show that they are effectively and aggressively prosecuting Medicaid fraud in their states and if they do not if they do not aggressively prosecute Medicaid fraud we are going to turn off the money that goes to these anti. All units- and I would say couple things about this- you may think. Obviously this is a Republican administration, we’re all proud Republicans up here. You may think this is purely a red state, blue state issue. That’s actually not true. We see Medicaid fraud issues in Ohio that the state that I used to represent in the Ohio in in the United States Senate. We also see Medicaid issues, fraud, shoes in a state like Maryland, which is obviously very blue state, but both Ohio and Maryland have worked with us to take this issue seriously. They worked with the guys behind me. They work with our entire team to make sure that they take fraud seriously again. This does not have to be a red state or a blue state issue. This is just basic good government, however. States, like California states, like Hawaii states like New York, have completely not taken the fraud issue seriously and the Medicaid program, and so for those states that refused to get serious about fraud, we’re going to turn off that anti fraud money, and if we continue to find problems, we can turn off other resources within their state. Medic aid programs as well. Our goal here is not to do that. We don’t want to turn off any money. What we want to do is ensure that people are taking fraud seriously. We want to protect Medicaid, we were to protect Medicare, but we can’t do that if the states that are administering those programs are allowing those programs to be fleeced by fraudsters, So we encourage whether it’s California in New York or Maryland or Ohio. We encourage people to work with us. We want to help you use technology and other tools to get rid of the fraud to get to the root of the fraud. We want to help you, but we can only help the state programs if those state programs are willing to help themselves. So these letters are the first step, the first effort to try to force these states to get serious about prosecuting fraud and that’s exactly what we’re doing"
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