Elon Musk: DOGE Has Uncovered $100 BILLION In Medicare and Medicaid Waste!

It turns out that USAID might not be the biggest source of government waste and corruption…

According to Elon Musk, the “big money fraud” is happening primarily in Medicare and Medicaid Services.

In a post on X, Musk said that DOGE has uncovered a whopping $100 billion of wasted taxpayer money since they began their audit.

Mario Nawfal explained:

🚨🇺🇸DOGE TEAM UNCOVERS $100 BILLION IN MEDICARE AND MEDICAID WASTE

Elon has exposed a staggering $100 billion in wasted taxpayer money within Medicare & Medicaid, calling it the epicenter of fraud.

"This is where the big money fraud is happening," Elon warned, as DOGE teams,… pic.twitter.com/YLmaYG4w6J

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 7, 2025

It started on Wednesday, when Elon Musk replied to a headline about DOGE staff searching for fraud in Medicare systems:

The motherlode is now being tapped for the first, but not the last, time.

This is where the real big savings are. pic.twitter.com/F3TgucQyqm

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) February 5, 2025

Elon Musk’s DOGE team were on-site at the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services this past week, in order to review and audit payment systems.

USA Today reported on this:

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency representatives are at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week examining payment and contracting systems of federal health agency.

Two senior agency veterans focused on policy and operations are working with DOGE to review the agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid, which provide health insurance for about 1 in 4 Americans, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesman.

“We are taking a thoughtful approach to see where there may be opportunities for more effective and efficient use of resources in line with meeting the goals of President Trump,” Andrew G. Nixon, HHS’ director of communications, said via email.

DOGE representatives have been at the agency’s offices this week examining CMS’s technology systems and spending, focusing on signs of fraud or waste, the Wall Street Journal reported. DOGE is also examining the CMS’s organizational design and staffing.

Then, on Thursday night, Elon Musk replied to another post with an update on the exact numbers…

They wasted $100B of taxpayer money! https://t.co/LZtrliFiJU

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2025

Axios commented on the widespread fraud:

“Yeah, this is where the big money fraud is happening,” Musk wrote on X Wednesday, referring to DOGE going into Medicare systems.

The definition of abuse or waste “is really in the eye of the beholder,” Chris Meekins, managing director at Raymond James, wrote in a client note.

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• For example, Medicare advisers to Congress argue the government is overpaying privately administrated Medicare Advantage plans that now cover more than half of the country’s seniors. But insurers and other policymakers and advisers disagree that the government is wasting money in that space.
• DOGE has said it wants to save $2 trillion in government spending, which is virtually impossible to do without making cuts to health spending. But President Trump told reporters last week that his administration won’t touch Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid unless it finds abuse or waste.

Let that sink in.

Medicare and Medicaid Services have been busy wasting billions upon billions of your taxpayer dollars — to the tune of an astonishing $100 billion total!

Whether that’s due to carelessness or maliciousness remains to be revealed…

I have a feeling it’s a mix of both.

Why else would Democrats be so worried about DOGE digging into this?

These folks on X are making some excellent points:

Great work by Elon and the DOGE team exposing this massive waste of taxpayer money in Medicare and Medicaid.

This kind of fraud is exactly what Trump’s administration has been trying to root out, it’s a huge win for the American people.

We need more transparency and…

— Stop Socialist Tyranny (@endlibtyranny) February 7, 2025

And so many time Medicare FAILS the seniors who need medical care. WHO is getting all the money??? FIND and ARREST them then SEIZE ALL THEIR ASSETS.

— Barbie D H (@barbiesway) February 7, 2025

Imagine all the good we could do with all this money being saved. This is the first time to my knowledge in American history we have audited our own government by unbiased forces.

— CYRUS 🦍🌴 (@CyrusAbrahimX) February 7, 2025

Why are Democrats upset about the corruption being uncovered? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/L8UrUX9LwK

— Based Electrician⚡️🇺🇲 (@RyanHugeBrain) February 7, 2025