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  • CMS Weaponizes Fraud Against Medicaid in Minnesota

    [Editor’s Note: Read Part 2 of “CMS Weaponizes Fraud Against Medicaid in Minnesota series here.] On January 6, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, sent a letter to the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, notifying him that his state’s Medicaid agency was “operating its program in substantial noncompliance”…

  • Fact Checking Claims about Medicaid and Marketplace Health Coverage for Immigrants – Government Shutdown Edition

    We are getting a lot of questions about the U.S. government shutdown that began on October 1, 2025, after a bipartisan failure to reach a deal to fund the government. The main point reporters are trying to fact-check is whether or not extending Advanced Premium Tax Credits (APTC) and reversing health care cuts in H.R.…

  • Fact Checking The White House “Mythbuster” on Medicaid Cuts and Immigrants

    On June 2, 2025, The White House posted a “Mythbuster” fact sheet in defense of the House-passed reconciliation bill. However, the sheet is full of inaccuracies and advances more myths than facts—too many to cover in just one blog. This blog will focus on one prominent false claim, namely that 1.4 million undocumented immigrants will…

  • More Fact Checking on Medicaid Spending for Immigrants

    Last week, a member of the Trump administration repeated a claim that the Administration was “kicking illegal immigrants off Medicaid to protect Medicaid for AMERICANS!” This is consistent with misleading talking points that the House-passed reconciliation bill, now under consideration by the Senate, targets cuts on Medicaid spending to undocumented immigrants. But is any of…

  • The Truth about Fraud Against Medicaid

    [Read Andy Schneider’s most recent blog about fraud against Medicaid: The Improper Use of Improper Payments.] As my colleague Edwin Park has explained, capping federal Medicaid payments to states will likely be a key objective for the incoming administration.  To lay the groundwork for this radical cost shift, the administration and its allies can be…