Trump admin to WITHHOLD hundreds of millions from California over Medicaid to illegals

( Right scoop )

CMS Administrator Dr. Oz has just announced that his HHS is withholding hundreds of millions from the state of California over their abuse of taxpayer Medicaid funding, by spending it on healthcare for illegals.

Oz says they are by far the worst offender and explains exactly why they are withholding it:

UPDATE: It’s worse than we thought. In October, we flagged $1.3 billion in Medicaid funds that 6 states may have unlawfully spent on health care for illegal immigrants. Since then, we’ve gathered more data and the total has grown to over $1.8 billion across 8 states.  It’s against the law to spend federal Medicaid funds on non-emergency healthcare for illegals. If states use their own money to do it, there needs to be a clear paper trail proving that federal dollars didn’t fund those services. These states failed to provide that for this $1.8 billion. So today, CMS is announcing that we’re withholding nearly $300 million from California — which is by far the worst offender — until they demonstrate to our satisfaction that they’re spending that money properly. Medicaid dollars belong to Americans, not illegal immigrants, and we won’t stop until we’ve held rogue states accountable and recovered their misspent funds. More announcements to come.