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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “When my predecessor came into office, there were 80 people…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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RFK Jr. Celebrates Bust Of 'Largest Medicaid Fraud Enforcement Department Of History'

Published | Video Starts at 04:44

They said that they were told to focus on enrollment and not fraud. The other thing that they did is to liquidate our program integrity office. So When my predecessor came into office, there were 80 people in program integrity, which is not enough because it's 50 states and five territories. And when I got in, there was only six left. So all of those people were transferred or let go and we were literally doing no program integrity. (04:44–04:57)

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Asserts that the program integrity office at HHS was reduced from 80 to 6 people.

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