How Fraud Hurts Medicaid

Pharmacy director Hank Wedemeyer prepares to fill a prescription at a community health center in Aurora, Colorado, on March 27, 2012. The center, called the Metro Community Provider Network, has received some 6,000 more Medicaid eligable patients since the healthcare reform law was passed in 2010. John Moore/Getty Images

Yesterday night, the House passed the budget blueprint to fund Trump’s agenda in a huge win for Speaker Mike Johnson. All Republicans except Rep. Thomas Massie voted for the plan that will kickstart the process of passing “one, beautiful bill” to fund tax cuts, border and energy policies, and raise the debt ceiling. Read more here. 

The United States spent more than $1.8 trillion on Medicare, Medicaid, and other health programs in 2023.