Medicaid Fraud: How $180 Billion Vanished Into Home Healthcare │ Walter Curt

Guest Walter Curt is an investigative journalist, senior fellow at Restoration of America, and founder of WC Dispatch (wcdispatch.com). His investigative work focuses on government waste, fraud, and abuse, with recent coverage in Restoration News titled "Unbridled Spending: Billions for Medicaid Expansion Congress Never Approved." A former mechanic of 10 years before launching his own investigative platform, Walter combines hands-on data analysis with on-the-ground reporting. Find him on X at @WCDispatch.   Key Topics Covered • How DOGE's 229-million-row HHS Medicaid dataset blew open the home healthcare fraud story • The Michigan demolished building that billed $2.4 million in Medicaid claims • Why blue-state Medicaid expansion drives the highest spending and the fewest prosecutions • $180 billion spent on home healthcare since 2020 — and why Walter believes most of it is fraud • The dentist office dissolved in 2004 that bills over a million dollars a year for autism treatment • Why Vice President JD Vance's $1.5 million prosecution threshold insults every taxpayer • Why Elon Musk's trillion-dollar DOGE savings target was right all along • The Oregon Medicaid provider list that has only removed 8 providers in 26 years • Dr. Oz, CMS, and the fraud task force taking 800 hospice organizations off the books in LA County • What every taxpayer should be asking their elected officials right now   Timestamped Topic Breakdown 00:18 — Cold open — Jenny Beth introduces Walter Curt and the Medicaid home healthcare story 01:09 — What made Walter start investigating the Medicaid expansion programs 02:00 — Inside the 229-million-row HHS dataset DOGE released — what's actually in it 03:01 — Mapping the data and connecting Medicaid billing codes to providers 05:03 — What Medicaid expansion was supposed to do — and the opposite of what it's doing 07:10 — Michigan: the trifecta takeover, the changed billing codes, and the spending explosion 07:53 — The $2.4 million demolished building that's still billing Medicaid 08:56 — Theft of taxpayer dollars — Jenny Beth and Walter on the bigger picture 10:08 — 21 of 600 Michigan businesses dissolved — $118 million in fraudulent billing 10:58 — JD Vance's $1.5 million prosecution threshold and why it's insulting 14:05 — Medicaid out of your paycheck — and why hundreds of billions in fraud is likely 16:29 — Jenny Beth defends Elon Musk's trillion-dollar DOGE savings target 20:10 — Why DOGE's young engineers ran circles around the Washington bureaucracy 22:16 — Dr. Oz shuts off 800 hospice organizations in LA County — and not one called 23:45 — Why fraud is in every state, every program, and how the turnkey industry works 26:09 — Hospice fraud — corrupting the most precious end-of-life care 28:03 — Autism treatment fraud and the dentist office dissolved in 2004 29:00 — A billion dollars a year on government laundry detergent — and why no one cares 32:29 — How fraud is driving inflation and unaffordability 35:26 — Where Walter is taking the investigation next — Wisconsin, Minnesota, California 40:05 — Oregon removed only 8 providers from the Medicaid list in 26 years 41:37 — What the Trump administration is doing right — CMS, Dr. Oz, JD Vance, RFK Jr. 44:28 — Walter's background — from mechanic to investigative journalist 45:30 — The 8(a) contract pass-through scheme and government racketeering 48:01 — COVID relief fraud, Dodge Hellcat LLC, and the negligence of Washington 51:10 — What should happen to bureaucrats who refuse to do oversight 55:41 — The biggest lie Americans are being told about federal healthcare spending 57:35 — One word for Washington's spending culture: negligence 57:58 — What every taxpayer should ask their elected officials 59:50 — Fraud Watchers — Walter's open-source state-by-state spending project 1:00:58 — Where to find Walter Curt — wcdispatch.com and @WCDispatch   Links & Resources • Visit Walter Curt at wcdispatch.com • Follow Walter on X: @WCDispatch • Read his Restoration News piece: "Unbridled Spending: Billions for Medicaid Expansion Congress Never Approved" at restoration-news.com • Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 • Learn more about Tea Party Patriots Action at teapartypatriots.org • Find more episodes at jennybethshow.com