Musk’s DOGE Chasing ‘Big Money Fraud’
with Access to Medicare, Medicaid Payments

It's going to be tens of billions of fraud, count on it.

Chances are that the grifters did not pay a cent into those funds. When I worked as an independent, the double Medicare deduction could have furnished more than a few hospital rooms.

Thank you DOGE! I did not plan for Medicare to be my retirement plan. However my husband began having mini-strokes at age 49 but was still able to work and had a major stroke at 51 (no longer could work) and became disabled. Eighteen months late he was on Medicare. We also took Plan D and Plan F plus got a supplement plan to cover what Plan F didn't cover. However there was no supplement plan to cover what Medicare didn't cover for drugs. During the 18 months we had gone through much of our savings because although he was covered by his work insurance it was only 70 to 80%. Some medicines were $900 per month, others 400 to 600. After he was on Medicare we still had the medicines. At age 60 he could get his 401 k and we used that for medicines. When I retired early at 62 I got my 401k. I bought a car he could get into (he had difficulty due to the major stroke) and out of and then I began using my 401k to pay for his medicines. His wasvgone by then. By the time he died 3 years later most of my 401k was gone. He kept apologizing for using all of our 401ks. I told him I was just glad we had it to use! Now I am 71. Thank the Lord for Social Security. I am in good health. Our son and d-i-l bought our home and I live in the morher-in-law apartment we built for my husband's mother. I know I am blessed and that I and my husband were blessed to have prepared - although to be honest we thought we were saving to travel after retirement. I am glad there is DOGE to make sure Medicare is available. My son has said for some time he is paying in for me and it will not be available for him. I hope he is wrong because catastrophic catastrophic illness takes all you have in many cases. We had tried to prepare. But medicines - life saving medicines - were what took all of our money. Doctors and hospitals were covered by our planning - just not medicines.

From the article ‘CMS has two senior Agency veterans — one focused on policy and one focused on operations — who are leading the collaboration with DOGE, including ensuring appropriate access to CMS systems and technology,” CMS said in a statement Wednesday to media sites confirming DOGE access.’ so you can bet they will NOT be helping Musk.

I am on a thyroid medication that has been around for decades, but is not covered by medicare or my supplement. Thank goodness for GoodRX or I would not be able to afford it ($35/mo on GoodRX, $400/mo otherwise). They will only pay for synthetic thyroid medications which do not work for me and I have awful side effects. This is one of the NP medications that the FDA is trying to remove. Too bad they have worked for over 50 years, but were never subjected to FDA approval because they have been around since before the FDA. I also hate that I get calls from health providers and letters from medicare to have my annual checkup. This so-called check-up is billed over $250 to medicare just to have my blood pressure checked and a few blood tests. Nothing special.

We get calls all the time from people we do not know who are pushing medicare paid for devices and services. All of which we don't want or need. No matter how much we tell them we don't want it they keep pushing that we won't have to pay anything. The callers are clearly calling from another country.

Our temporary rehab facility asked if we wanted a wheelchair. We thought they meant for use at the facility over the next couple of weeks we would be there. And we thought they meant one of the dozens that were sitting abandoned and unused and lining the halls. But we later found out that, no, they meant order a new one from a medical equipment supplier for us to keep. But we weren't going to need it at home. THEN we saw the bill. About 250$ for the chair every month for the next year. 3k$ total. And we were assured we weren't going to have to pay anything. They kept assuring us that anytime we brought it up. They didn't understand that medicare is already expensive and the abuse is just making it more expensive. The exact same chair would be delivered to our door by Amazon for $157. Not per month. $157 per month total. Yet medicare approved the 3k$ chair. It's junk. It just sits in the garage. I am thinking of donating it to a local thrift store. We also had a medical back support pushed on us for about $700 that cost $40 on Amazon. And it was completely useless. We thought the doctor had ordered it. Nope. It was just some medical equipment supplier that had heard about our malady and were cashing in to make a sale that medicare would pay for.

can they DOGE this scam: my friend's mother had an injury; the family packed her off to the hospital. mum was repaired; dad has excellent insurance; they returned to collect her and verify the bill. it was mostly covered. they were then told they had to buy mother this spendy contraption-- for mom to sit in a chair- and ride up and down. they said no. the master bedroom is on the 1st floor. she does not go upstairs. we won't release mum until you sign the purchase contract. nobody used it. it didn't last the year. the family suspects there are commissions paid. who knows. another friend is a public health nurse. she visits some less prosperous neighbourhoods, and reports nobody tries to sell these folks a chair for the stair , because they know the black and hispanic patients cannot pay for it. can't make this stuff up.

Somebody needs to look into the Freedomcare boondoggle where Medicaid is used to pay one family member for taking care of another family member at home. The program has scam, graft, corruption and kickback written all over it.

Start with hospitals. My supplement insurance was billed from Dr. I HAD A THOUGHT. Also billed PATIENT IS NOT A USER OF ALCOHOL OR A SMOKER. That was only two of 91 bills. What the hell?

Get ready! The REAL SQUALLING starts in 3.....2.....1....

If you thought USAID was bad, just hang on. This will be a disaster of epic proportions. I hope Pam has what it takes to start throwing these bandits into jail.