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J. D. Vance: “The threat to the Medicaid program is not us keeping…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 05:46

… identity and, and applies for snap benefits now, all of a sudden, they're tagged in the banking system. Their credit score is ruined, not because they did a single thing … The threat to the Medicaid program is not us keeping fraudsters away from the Medicaid program. It's the fraudsters rating that program to begin with. … movie? And how do those prosecutions always start? You never start with the boss. You start with the low level guys who then give you some sense of the criminal … (05:46–28:44)

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Asserts that fraudsters are the primary threat to Medicaid.

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