IC–043 | "You would kill Rick Scott" If You Cared About Medicare/Medicaid Fraud
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[0:00] I cannot believe like, I don't know, maybe people just recently got interested
[0:12] in this
[0:13] stuff. Maybe is that what it is? Like, where are these people coming from? What
[0:19] ? I know
[0:20] you're not anti semitic, but consistently breezing over it. This is a lot of
[0:22] the reason
[0:23] why Israel's okay with straight up Geno. The fuck do you mean? I think that
[0:26] that is completely
[0:27] unacceptable. What are you talking about? Like what? I know you're not anti
[0:34] German, but
[0:35] consistently breezing over why the concentration camps were built to begin with
[0:40] misses. A lot
[0:41] of the reason why Nazi Germany is okay with the Holocaust.
[0:57] Yeah, ridiculous. Completely ridiculous. Yeah, I can't believe that someone has
[1:25] the
[1:25] fucking audacity to do genocide. Apologia. Two questions. It's not please
[1:32] educate me
[1:32] because I don't see you talk about it a lot. Genuine questions. What do you
[1:34] think the
[1:35] slash claim Israel wants to do? What do you think is the solution? Also, how do
[1:39] you think
[1:39] this genocide will end? What do you mean? I think Israel wants to wipe out as
[1:43] many of
[1:44] the paths as possible and then slowly but surely rebuild settlements in the
[1:48] Gaza Strip
[1:49] and turn the Gaza Strip back into the West Bank overtake larger parts of the
[1:54] West Bank
[1:54] and also completely completely destroy any sort of of Palestinian existence in
[2:01] the region.
[2:02] They just want all of it. And inevitably, they will move on to other parts of
[2:05] greater
[2:06] Israel. They will move on to southern Lebanon. They've already moved on to a
[2:11] larger part
[2:12] of southern Syria. Okay, they already have just because they don't talk about
[2:18] it just
[2:19] because we don't talk about it in Western news doesn't change that reality.
[2:24] Israel is already
[2:24] overtaken. Large swats of southern Syria. As a matter of fact, they just want
[2:33] all the
[2:34] Palestinians to fucking die or make it so that they just cannot live at all.
[2:42] False. The Jews weren't killing Germans before the Holocaust. What are you
[2:51] talking about?
[2:52] Yes, it is a fucking do you not understand the comparison I'm making? Yes. I
[2:57] don't agree
[2:57] with the Nazis. I'm saying that they fucking lied. What? No, Jewish people did
[3:08] not kill
[3:10] Germans. And then and then that's the reason why Germany had real security
[3:14] concerns. That's
[3:15] just a lie that the German government told at the time. That's what the that's
[3:19] the lie
[3:19] that the Nazi party told. The fuck is wrong with you? Anyway, this chat is
[3:38] entertaining
[3:38] because so many stupid. All right, let's get back to the angry protest. They're
[3:41] seeing
[3:41] a GOP town halls that the Senate is going to make big changes to what you
[3:46] passed last
[3:47] night. No, I don't think they will. I think they understand the necessity of
[3:52] letting the
[3:52] House lead on this. We've got a smaller margin than they do for the first time
[3:56] in the modern
[3:57] era. The Senate Republicans have a larger margin than we do in the House and I
[4:01] 've got
[4:01] a much smaller needle to to thread here. And I think they recognize that I get
[4:06] 165 more
[4:07] personalities to deal with than they do in a much more diverse caucus. So
[4:10] Senator Kennedy
[4:11] is one of my closest friends. I love his one liners. Okay, but I think what he
[4:14] was referring
[4:15] to there in that sound by Caitlin is that he doesn't want to cut Medicaid
[4:19] Medicaid benefits
[4:20] for anybody. And we don't either. I don't either. We're not going to do that.
[4:23] That's
[4:23] not part of this plan. And the Democrats have been lying about it. And so it's
[4:26] important
[4:27] for us to clarify that. That's what I think he was referring to. We're not we
[4:29] 're going
[4:30] to take care of those who are rightful beneficiaries of the programs. We're
[4:33] going to cut the fraud
[4:35] waste and abuse out of Medicaid. And that's where we're going to get part of
[4:38] the savings
[4:38] to accomplish this mission. But are people who are covered by Medicaid now
[4:42] going to potentially
[4:43] lose Medicaid coverage as a result of this? No, look, the White House has made
[4:47] a commitment
[4:48] the president said over and over and over, we're not going to touch so security
[4:52] , Medicare
[4:53] or Medicaid. We've made the same commitment. Now, that said, what we are going
[4:57] to do is
[4:58] go into those programs and carve out the fraud, waste and abuse and find effic
[5:01] iencies. A couple
[5:02] of examples, you know, there's about $50 billion estimated that are lost every
[5:07] year in Medicaid
[5:08] just in fraud alone. No, that fraud is not coming from individuals is coming
[5:12] from providers.
[5:13] They're not tackling providers. They're not actually going after like false
[5:17] billing. They
[5:18] are trying to cut the recipients. Okay. It is not happening at the point of
[5:24] recipients.
[5:25] If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott.
[5:30] Okay. You
[5:31] wouldn't make Rick Scott, former governor of Florida, Rick Scott. You wouldn't
[5:35] make him
[5:36] the, the current, what is his current office? What is he? He's the Richard Lynn
[5:43] Scott is
[5:44] an American attorney, businessman politician, Navy veteran serving as the
[5:47] senior United States
[5:47] Senator from Florida seat. He has held since 2019. And also, I believe this
[5:52] past election
[5:53] cycle, he was literally the, the fucking head of the, what was it like, the
[5:58] Senate committee
[5:59] or something? Like the, the Republican fundraising initiatives. The reason why
[6:09] I'm saying if
[6:10] you cared about Medicare or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott is
[6:14] because and not
[6:15] make him a prominent part of the Republican party is because he to this day is
[6:21] still also
[6:22] known as committing the largest Medicare fraud in US history.
[6:44] They want to cut snap. They want to cut Medicaid. I want to cut the funding of
[6:49] Medicaid. They
[6:50] want to make it harder for people to receive Medicaid. They don't want to
[6:54] actually go
[6:55] after the medical providers or the insurance companies or the nursing homes
[7:02] that are lining
[7:03] their pockets with major donations. Those are the people who actually engage in
[7:09] the fraud.
[7:10] It's not your uncle. That's like lying about their condition and stealing money
[7:14] from, stealing
[7:15] money from the government by, you know, going to the doctor or whatever.
[7:19] No one's for that. We've got to make sure we eliminate it. We have the
[7:22] algorithms now
[7:23] to do that. We have advanced technology to find it. We need to ID provide
[7:27] identification
[7:28] for people who are Medicaid recipients to make sure they are not illegal aliens
[7:32] . That's
[7:32] another big carve out that we will make to save a lot of money. There are a lot
[7:35] of places
[7:35] to find efficiencies in these programs and ensure they're going to the people
[7:38] they're
[7:39] intended to help. If we don't do that, these programs aren't going to remain
[7:43] solvent and
[7:43] so that's a big part of the equation here.
[7:45] Well, I'm glad you brought that up because you talk about waste fraud and abuse
[7:48] that you're
[7:49] going to look at instead of making cuts other where. But last year between
[7:53] Medicaid and Medicare
[7:54] combined, there was about $100 billion in improper payments. Now, no one is exc
[7:58] using
[7:58] that or fraud or any waste and abuse, but you're looking for much larger than
[8:03] that. So where
[8:03] is the other $780 billion going to come from?
[8:07] Well, look, we're talking about cuts that are in the range of $2 trillion, but
[8:10] you're
[8:11] also talking about the whole of the federal government. We're going to involve
[8:15] 11 different
[8:15] committees of jurisdiction in this process. So all this attention is being paid
[8:20] to Medicaid
[8:20] because that's the Democrat's talking point. We're talking is not a Democrat's
[8:23] talking
[8:24] point. That's where a lot of the money is. And you want to cut it is just what
[8:29] is happening
[8:31] about a massive piece of legislation that looks at all of the fraud, waste and
[8:35] abuse across
[8:35] the government and looks at programs that we do need to eliminate that doesn't
[8:39] isn't
[8:39] we're talking about health care for people that are relying upon that. Look,
[8:43] everybody
[8:43] needs to watch the process play out. We passed the budget resolution last night
[8:47] . It is merely
[8:48] a also, I wish that was a Democrat talking point. How sad. Look at how think
[8:55] about how
[8:56] much we have devolved in American politics. Like it's not even a Democrat
[9:01] talking point.
[9:02] Like they I've some Democrats talk about it. You know, you got Greg Kazar, AOC.
[9:09] There's
[9:09] a couple Democrats who like come out and pop off about it. But I wish it was a
[9:13] fucking
[9:13] Democrat talking point, you know, the level of resistance is so, so bad by the
[9:24] Democratic
[9:24] party that is not even a fucking Democrat talking point framework to set up
[9:30] Democrats
[9:30] are too busy trying to, you know, Democrats are too busy trying to set up
[9:35] Andrew Cuomo
[9:36] as the next mayor of New York, because God forbid, God forbid the DSA back like
[9:42] socialist
[9:42] adjacent anti-Zionist Zoron actually becomes the mayor. That would be
[9:47] terrifying. Democrats
[9:48] are also too busy, I don't know, prosecuting children for being pro Palestine.
[9:54] That's what
[9:54] they're doing. They're also courting Silicon Valley tech CEOs to say, I promise
[9:59] when we
[9:59] get back in power, we will give you the same level of access that Trump has
[10:02] given to Elon
[10:03] Musk and these other right wing billionaires. That's what the Democrats are
[10:06] doing right
[10:06] now. Democrats are also doing this. You know what they're doing? Aside from
[10:11] Cuomo seeing
[10:12] this possible White House candidate by some Democrats, aside from running for
[10:15] New York
[10:15] mayor, where's the other thing that the Democrats are doing? Hold on, let me
[10:19] see if I can find
[10:19] it real quick. I retweeted it earlier today. If you want to understand where
[10:30] the Democratic
[10:30] Party's attitudes are, where they're going, okay? Here, this is who they picked
[10:36] to represent
[10:36] the party and respond to Trump's speech. Eliza Slotkin, she was the first
[10:43] Democrat ever
[10:43] endorsed by Liz Cheney, voted for the Lake and Riley Act, which is the, if you
[10:48] suspect
[10:48] a person who is Brown, who happens to be undocumented of doing a crime, they
[10:52] can be deported instantly
[10:53] act, okay? Which is a violation of the Constitution. Anyway, violence due
[10:59] process. Empowering Trump
[11:01] to detain people without due process and is a top Democrat voter of Trump's and
[11:06] is a
[11:06] top Democratic voter of Trump's cabinet, okay? As a senator, one of 12
[11:12] Democrats who voted
[11:13] for the anti migrant, Lake and Riley act that empowers Donald Trump's ice to
[11:15] detain people
[11:16] without due process voted for eight of Donald Trump's cabinet nominees, while
[11:19] his administration
[11:20] dismantles the entire government. As a House member, she was one of 62
[11:23] Democrats who joined
[11:24] 148 Republicans to express disgust at South Africans.