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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Fraud reportedly found in Medi-Cal

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0

This has been Ethan Hatcher and Jerry Lopez on the radio.

0:04.1

I believe Casey and Jim will return tomorrow morning.

0:07.7

But thank you for tuning in in the meantime.

0:10.0

I see 57 beautiful listeners have given us likes on the YouTube stream.

0:15.8

Jerry, I think we can push that up to 75.

0:18.4

Let's see if we can get that up to 75 likes before the end of the program.

0:22.4

You got one hour to go, ladies and gentlemen.

0:24.5

I'm counting on you, beautiful people, little less than 20 likes to go.

0:30.1

Let's help make our dream a reality.

0:32.3

Please, thank you.

0:34.0

This segment, I wanted to talk about something that you brought up earlier, which is the considerable fraud that is taking place across the nation and fraud capital of California, where investigators have uncovered $146 billion of fraud annually in the Medicaid program.

0:55.0

America's fraud investigations bring us to the Golden State of California.

0:59.3

Look at this number.

1:01.0

$146 billion.

1:03.6

Health and human service officials confirm that number to Chris Rufo as the staggering amount of fraud in a single program in Gavin Newsom's state Medicaid system.

1:13.9

Stop and think about that.

1:15.3

$146 billion, a single program, a single state.

1:20.4

That is slightly more than Warren Buffett's estimated net worth.

1:25.1

It is more than the GDP of several small countries like the Marshall Islands

1:29.1

in Dominica, just to name a few. And it is well over $100 billion more than the most

1:36.1

valuable NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys. That is just for Medicaid, just in California.

1:43.0

So imagine what the total number of fraud is when you count all the social programs in all 50 states.

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