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Mike Johnson: “There's about $50 billion estimated that are lost every year…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson Joins The Source With Kaitlan Collins

Published | Video Starts at 01:32

Now that said, what we are going to do is go into those programs and carve out the fraud, waste and abuse and find efficiencies. Couple of examples. You know, There's about $50 billion estimated that are lost every year in Medicaid just in fraud alone. No one's for that. We've got to make sure we eliminate it. We have the algorithms now to do that. We have advanced technology to find it. (01:32–01:39)

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Asserts that $50 billion is lost annually in Medicaid due to fraud.

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