So California Medi-Cal program facing a deficit over $6 billion on loans has been spending on non-medical services like rent-assistant and medically tailored meals under its Cal-AIM, California Advanced and Innovating Medi-Cal initiative, which reimagined health care to include housing and healthy food for the state's poorest and sickest

residents, the federal government under the Trump administration and newly confirmed centers

for Medicare and Medicaid services.

Head Dr. Mehmet Oz is cracking down on Medi-Cal and other medical programs with Oz stating

that Medicaid dollars for vulnerable people are being used

for non-medical services, crowding out spending on education and other services. Tom, what do you

know about the story? This is California. Let's just say, let me look up, check my notes. Yep,

they're broke. And so they are misappropriating money. And then misappropriation is when money was

put in a government account for something, it needs to be used for that something. And so California

Medicaid has been stressed because they brought in so many of these illegal aliens, undocumented

immigrants, whatever political name you have for them, they brought in excess peoples.

And those peoples break their legs, get sick, go to the hospital, and Medicaid covers the cost of that.

That's what Medicaid is.

When you hear C-A-I-D, that is for people who are poor or otherwise don't have money,

and they get their

services covered by the state because they can't pay for it.

And if a six-year-old child walks in with a broken ankle, I want that child cared for.

So, so does everybody else.

Well, they're taking some of that money and they were using it on homeless because what's

the other side of the barbell right on one

side you've got you know these illegal aliens undocumented immigrants you know you know tourists

whatever name you have they need medical services but they also are in tent cities so they're

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