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J. D. Vance: “The federal government pays most of the Medicaid money, but…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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LIVE | JD Vance outlines federal anti-fraud initiatives

Published | Video Starts at 19:57

So I think a lot of you understand, but for those of you will watching and who, who don't appreciate this, the Medicaid system that exists in the United states is really 50 separate systems. The federal government pays most of the Medicaid money, but then each of the individual states actually administers the Medicaid program. Now we have red states and blue states that go after fraud aggressively. But we also unfortunately have some states, mostly blue states, unfortunately, that do not take Medicaid fraud very seriously. (19:57–20:05)

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Asserts that the federal government funds Medicaid, but states administer it.

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