Fraud Plague hits Columbus Ohio plus Carlson Interview-Truth or Theater?
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
1. Widespread Medicaid Fraud
- There is large-scale fraud in Medicaid being found in Ohio, particularly involving home healthcare services.
- Billions of taxpayer dollars are being misused through questionable billing practices.
- This issue is nationwide, not limited to politically “liberal” states.
2. Home Healthcare System Exploitation
- Individuals are paid for non-medical services (e.g., companionship, cooking, cleaning).
- Family members are often paid to care for relatives, with little oversight.
- Highlights the lack of verification due to services occurring in private homes.
3. Business and Organizational Abuse
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- Rapidly scale and bill Medicaid without clear operations.
- Exist as shell or low-substance businesses.
- Operate in clusters (e.g., many companies registered at one address).
- Fraudulent or unethical actors (e.g., individuals with criminal histories) are involved.
4. Incentive Structure Issues
- Medicaid has:
- No spending cap in certain programs.
- Minimal barriers to approval (e.g., a doctor’s signature).
- This creates incentives for:
- Overbilling
- Kickbacks
- Rapid expansion of questionable providers
5. Government Oversight Criticism
- The government:
- Fails to monitor billing effectively
- Ignores red flags despite technological capabilities
- The system is vulnerable due to being state-administered but federally funded
6. Tucker Carlson
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- Carlson spreads false or inflammatory statements
- Promotes or normalizes extreme viewpoints
- Has allegedly become less credible and influential
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Fraud is something we are saying that is now being exposed at levels that none of us could |
| 0:10.5 | have actually imagined even after what we'd already found in Minnesota. |
| 0:15.1 | Now, there's a lot of people that thought, well, this is just fraud that's going to happen |
| 0:18.4 | in extreme places where there's hardcore liberals. We're now saying that is not true. I'm going to take you to Ohio, |
| 0:26.2 | and I'm going to tell you about this story. I'm going to ask you at the very beginning, |
| 0:30.1 | share this story on social media, all right? Because people need to know that what we're |
| 0:34.6 | witnessing now with fraud is not just in the liberal states. |
| 0:39.0 | Democrats have figured out how to steal and these immigrants and illegal immigrants in every state in America. |
| 0:45.9 | Now, let me set the stage for you. |
| 0:48.2 | Just before the Department of Government Efficiency closed its doors, it made a quiet move, keyword quiet move, that may end |
| 0:56.9 | up its most lasting impact on the federal deficit. Doge published a massive trove of data in February |
| 1:06.1 | that for the first time lets the public see what companies are billing Medicaid for. |
| 1:12.7 | Now, for decades, all right, the payouts have been shrouded in secrecy, and now we understand |
| 1:19.0 | why. |
| 1:20.3 | One of the largest government programs, in essence, was a black box that the government |
| 1:26.1 | made that way so that there could be kickbacks, |
| 1:29.9 | waste, fraud, and abuse that we would never see. |
| 1:32.8 | Now, this interesting article that's been put out by a man, Luke Raziac, he spent the last |
| 1:40.3 | two months digging into the numbers. |
| 1:43.2 | And what he found was the most blatant waste of federal |
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