DOGE sent people to Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Maryland Congressional delegation (made up of largely Democrats) condemned DOGE and even sponsored protest rallies. I have no idea how this has evolved, but I think it's fair to say that many people don't want DOGE to be serious about catching Medicare fraud.
Would you let DOGE into your offices after they wantonly and indiscriminately fired huge swaths of our federal workforce and canceled government contracts and research grants based on very little data?
If DOGE had built a reputation of rooting out fraud instead of being a government arsonist I think we would be having a very different conversation.
Bingo. It's like people have no problem calling out the marketing doublespeak in things they don't like (eg "PATRIOT" act, in 2025), but then when it comes to something being pushed by their team it's like "But why are you against Efficiency!!1!"
> … but I think it’s fair to say that many people don’t want DOGE to be serious about catching Medicare fraud.
That’s a leap (if I’m being charitable). I think you could state that most people don’t trust DOGE, especially given DOGE’s apparent lack of concern for the American’s they are technically working in service of. I don’t believe DOGE has the capability of identifying fraud, let alone have the desire to stop it.
DOGE sent people to Medicare for the purpose of cutting off Medicare patients, not rooting out fraud in service providers.
DOGE's actions have actually increased service provider fraud quite dramatically across all agencies, because the existing fraud prevention processes have all been circumvented.
Taking into account the increased costs DOGE has imposed on government agencies, DOGE's net "savings" to date are an estimated negative 100 billion for 2025 alone (meaning, that when all is said and done, DOGE will have caused the government to spend at least $100 billion more than it would have if DOGE had done nothing at all) and negative $500 billion for the remainder of Trump's term if their "cuts" are extended.
DOGE is what happens you put technoidiots in charge of things they know nothing about and think that technology is the magical solution to every problem.
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