Fraud Task Force Vice Chair: It Should Not Have Taken a Brave Kid with a Cell Phone Camera to Address Widespread Fraud

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FERGUSON: “It’s a shame we have to be up here at all, and with all due respect to the press, with this room full of reporters. It should not have taken a brave kid with a cellphone camera to point the American people at this issue. This is the result of decades of corruption, particularly in blue states like Hawaii. Like the vice president was just explaining, California, Minnesota, and New York, that have taken tens of billions of dollars to pay lawyers to go after Medicaid fraud, that just simply have not done it at all. That’s the whole point of these programs. We have these cooperative federalism programs, we love federalism, we want to partner with states, we love subsidiarity. But if the states are going to participate in this, they have to protect their own citizens when they get access to these dollars.”