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David Schweikert: “Improper Medicaid payments since 2019 are over $400 billion.”

Featuring: David Schweikert, Republican | U.S. House, Arizona, District 1

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Medicaid. This is not Medicare, this is Medicaid. This is supposed to be health care for indigence. That's the law. Improper Medicaid payments since 2019 are over $400 billion. And if you actually look at the literature, people that have analyzed it, so here's a paragon study written by PhD basically says that hey, the Medicare or Medicaid reported functionally half a trillion dollars over 10 years. (29:42–29:48)

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