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Ramaswamy, Ohio Republicans Address Fraud in Press Conference

In the wake of a recent investigative report from The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak on suspected Medicaid fraud in Columbus, Ohio, Republicans held a press conference on Tuesday to lay out their plans for tackling the issue. Rosiak also spoke, discussing his findings.

As Rosiak recapped, Ohio has home health centers, a program allowing people to get paid for offering “companionship,” with the Medicaid beneficiaries often being their own relatives.

“The issue is that if that many people were really sick, Columbus, Ohio would have the least healthy population in the entire world. The companies are farming elderly poor people for cash. You research the owners and you find absurd red flags. They’re working other full-time jobs while billing the government $10 million a year. They’re not paying their own taxes,” Rosiak revealed.

He also illustrated how such examples of fraud “happened 10 miles from the [Ohio] Department of Medicaid building,” as he called for “competence” and a particular need for GPS tracking.

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced last week a series of fraud prevention initiatives, including requiring GPS tracking.

Calling out the Ohio Department of Medicaid, especially former director Maureen Corcoran, was a common theme for speakers in attendance, including Ohio Auditor Keith Faber and Ohio Speaker Matt Huffman. “When you have a director who simply isn’t going to follow........

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