Massive federal programs, particularly those farmed out to the states, have always been ripe for fraud. Now it appears Minnesota has added a new dimension to the amount and kind of fraud possible, certainly in its maladministration of Medicaid. So serious and blatant is the fraud Health and Human Services—HHS—Director Dr. Mehmet Oz is threatening to shut off the federal money spigot.
At City Journal, Chris Rufo wrote:
Our investigation shows what happens when a tribal mindset meets a bleeding-heart bureaucracy, when imported clan loyalties collide with a political class too timid to offend, and when accusations of racism are cynically deployed to shield criminal behavior. The predictable result is graft, with taxpayers left to foot the bill.