Axios: Musk celebrates Medicaid win (Remember DOGE)

Musk celebrates Medicaid win
 
Photo illustration of Elon Musk against an abstract background.
Photo illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images
 
Elon Musk took a victory lap yesterday as a DOGE team released a huge trove of Medicaid spending data he said the public could use to look for fraud themselves, Axios’s Adriel Bettelheim and Maya Goldman write.

Why it matters: The Trump administration often cites waste as justification for deep program cuts including the nearly $1 trillion in reductions to federal Medicaid spending in last year’s Republican budget bill.

Between the lines: The public release could make it possible to identify high-billing Medicaid providers and unusual patterns — including alleged fraudulent autism diagnoses and treatments in Minnesota that were billed by Medicaid providers, The Wall Street Journal wrote in an editorial (gift link).

The administration used Minnesota’s inability to rein in fraud in safety net programs as justification for freezing federal child care funding and launching the ICE enforcement surge that targeted the state’s Somali community.Share this story.

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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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