[FOX] House GOP lawmakers are rolling out a slew of new bills after a bombshell report found that hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are potentially being targeted by fraudsters every year.
As people across the U.S. are battling high costs that make it hard to make ends meet, a report released Tuesday by the House Energy & Commerce Committee warns that federally subsidized healthcare programs are rife with fraud and abuse — "impacting every single American, in one way or another."
While no estimate for Medicare and Medicaid fraud exists specifically, the report noted, a 2024 estimate by the Government Accountability Office said $233 billion to $521 billion taxpayer dollars going to federal programs are lost to fraud every year. Federal healthcare programs accounted for 24% of federal spending in 2024, according to the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities.
Medicaid specifically is rife with vulnerabilities making it susceptible to fraud, the report said, which is why House Republicans are rolling out 14 bills aimed at closing loopholes in the system, shrinking bureaucracy, and making it easier for states to recoup lost dollars while also incentivizing them to go after potential fraudsters.
"Taxpayers that fund benefit programs with federal and state taxpayer dollars are cheated by fraud, inflating healthcare costs that are passed along to everyone," the committee's report states. "Every dollar stolen from federal health care programs is a dollar that is not spent on high quality healthcare for those that need it most."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Florida mother sobbed as she faced a judge who shamed her for allegedly abandoning her four young children so she could go on a multi-day cruise.
Nathalie Belizaire, 29, is accused of leaving the youngsters – including a newborn – alone in her North Miami Beach home while she took a trip to the Bahamas on Friday.
On Tuesday, Belizaire appeared before Judge Mindy Glazer, who was shocked while reading out the allegations in court.
The mother used her orange jumpsuit to wipe away her tears as Judge Glazer could be heard saying, 'We are just grateful nothing happened to these kids.'
'Who leaves four little kids alone?' asked the astonished judge. The mother's attorney tried to explain that it was just an allegation as of now, but Glazer pointed out that police 'arrested her disembarking from the cruise ship.'
Belizaire was arrested Monday as she was met off the Carnival Conquest by officers with the North Miami Beach Police Department, who said one of her children's fathers reported the siblings had been left on their own.
Police said the father of Belizaire's two-month-old became concerned when he saw the mother post on social media about her cruise vacation, and she told him all four youngsters were with their great-grandmother.
According to Belizaire's arrest report, the father arrived at her apartment on Saturday night and said he could see a TV was on and the children were talking inside, but there was no sign of the mother.
First responders broke into Belizaire's home to find 'all four minor children inside without adult supervision,' per the document.
Police said the four children were all found 'hiding together in the bathroom.'
Authorities have not revealed the ages of all of Belizaire's children, but said one was two months old and another was two years old.
Following her arrest, Belizaire's attorney said she denied the allegations against her, telling NBC6: 'Of course she (denies the charges).... One baby, the baby was born in July of this year. Who leaves a baby alone like that?'
Police alleged that although Belizaire had made arrangements with her children's great-grandmother to take them, the relative told investigators that Belizaire never showed up with the kids before leaving for her cruise.
Belizaire also allegedly texted her brother instructing him to check on her children over the weekend.
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Despite how shocking it may be to some.
Little about this growing single mom, multi sperm donor taxpayer supported generation fails to surprise me anymore.
How about a law requiring mom's to ID possible sperm donors and make them pay child support, instead of taxpayers?
[FoxWeather] According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the magnitude 4.7 earthquake occurred at 11:36 am UTC, and locals along the coast in areas such as Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge experienced weak shaking.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
