JD Vance vows to fight Medicaid fraud in Ohio

Vice President JD Vance has vowed to crack down on apparent fraud in his home state of Ohio after a report from Luke Rosiak and The Daily Wire revealed that Medicaid fraud is rampant in the Columbus Somali community. Essentially, people in that community have set up home health care businesses that employ people who then bill Medicaid for spending time with their own families.

"These shocking allegations, if true, show why the Fraud Task Force’s work is so important," said Vance. "I’m directing the task force to look into it and take immediate action to prosecute any fraudsters involved and stop all further payments as appropriate."

Vance has been heading up a Fraud Task Force, put in place by President Donald Trump, to track down fraud being committed against federal social safety net programs. This fraud makes the services more expensive and causes tax increases and a decline in services.

In his comment, Vance was responding to a post from Rosiak that read, "94 Medicaid 'home health' companies purport to occupy this office building, taking more than $66 million of your money. They provide free butlers to immigrants. 'No windows on the outside hides the fact that there's no one on the inside.' There's an entire street of these."

Rosiak revealed that "northeast Columbus has seen its economy replaced by businesses that bill Medicaid." Most of these companies, he said, are owned and operated by foreigners. Rosiak said they live "in a parallel society where every associate in public records also has a foreign name, and all their business transactions are conducted with other foreigners." 

Columbus has "the second largest Somali population in the country" and has "become, on the surface, the most unhealthy city on the planet." 

In response to the revelations, Vivek Ramaswamy said, "I refuse to tolerate this kind of waste, fraud, & abuse in Medicaid. We'll prosecute aggressively & put the money back in the pockets of law-abiding Ohioans. The dollar amount will be far greater than most people expect."

Rosiak spoke to Jack Posobiec on Monday's Human Events Daily and said that the Somali connection is particularly concerning. Somalia is a country known for fraud. "That is what we're seeing Somalis in particular mastering," Rosiak said, "the art of exploiting federal programs at scale, and taking programs that were based on trust and good faith, and then just setting the country on the course for bankruptcy."