4/17/2026, “What’s worse than Medicaid fraud?,” by Stephen A. Moses, McKnights LTC News
Quote:
“Medicaid fraud drains public funds, undermines trust, and too often involves services for the frail elderly delivered on paper but not in reality. Yet fraud, for all its damage, is not the program’s most serious failing. Fraud is illegal, detectable, and, in principle, fixable with the right incentives and enforcement. The deeper problem is what Medicaid does legally every day: channel benefits upward, reward poor planning, and shortchange the poorest and most vulnerable Americans.”
LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:
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