Trump's agriculture secretary doubles down on suggestion people should work on farms to avoid losing Medicaid

[Ol Janx Spirit]

30. "These are able-bodied Americans who are taking government handouts." This describes billionaires does it not?

But just as "mass-deportations" exposed the lie that there were millions of violent criminal immigrants roaming the streets of American cities looking for prey, this new policy will do the same with the lie that millions of able-bodied people are living large on Medicaid money.

What's worse: so much of the fraud in Medicare and Medicaid isn't perpetrated by the people receiving the care, but it is perpetrated by the physicians and wealthy healthcare systems like the one now-senator Rick Scott (R - DeSantistan) founded.

"Columbia/HCA agreed to pay $840 million in criminal fines, civil damages and penalties.
Among the revelations from the 2000 settlement:
• Columbia billed Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs for tests that were not necessary or had not been ordered by physicians;
• The company attached false diagnosis codes to patient records to increase reimbursement to the hospitals;
• The company illegally claimed non-reimbursable marketing and advertising costs as community education;
• Columbia billed the government for home health care visits for patients who did not qualify to receive them."
( https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/mar/03/florida-democratic-party/rick-scott-rick-scott-oversaw-largest-medicare-fra/ )

Crazy thought: maybe the DOJ should be going after those guys and sentencing them to work in the fields....