JD Vance threatens health funding to states that don't comply with White House anti-fraud effort

[Eugene]

Earlier DU thread: trump administration freezes new Medicare enrollments for hospice and home health agencies for 6 months

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Source: The Guardian

JD Vance threatens health funding to states that don’t comply with White House anti-fraud effort

Medicare has already paused hospice and home healthcare agency signups as potential fraud is investigated

Melody Schreiber
Wed 13 May 2026 22.20 BST
Last modified on Wed 13 May 2026 22.28 BST

JD Vance has threatened to “turn off” federal funding for government health insurance programs in states that refuse to comply with the Trump administration’s crackdown on suspected fraud.

States which fail to “get serious” about fraud would lose Medicaid and Medicare funding, the US vice-president announced on Wednesday, sparking fresh accusations that Trump officials are using unfounded allegations to punish political rivals.

Hospices and home health agencies are also halted from new Medicare enrollment for six months while the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) investigates potential fraud alongside Vance’s anti-fraud taskforce, the agency announced on Wednesday.

The administration will review anti-fraud funding for states that it deems to have failed to tackle fraud, Vance said. “And if we continue to find problems, we can turn off other resources within their state Medicaid programs as well.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/jd-vance-anti-fraud-medicare-medicaid

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. Rules only apply to blue states

[wcmagumba]

2. I don't believe Vance or t-rump can unilaterally take this action...Those funds were voted on by Congress...

Congress would have to take a vote of some sort to remove them...I could be wrong but hoping I'm not...

[sakabatou]

3. Vance, once again, wants the US to die

[Irish_Dem]

4. Largest mob crime ring in US history accuses others of crimes.

Money they want going into their own pockets.

[SonOfNebanaube]

5. well even...

Arkansas is f***** in that regard.

[wnylib]

6. Meantime, what happens to seniors needing hospice care?

And others needing Medicaid during the cut off?

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Ah, like Father, like Son . . . . . .

[Amishman]

8. Fraud is a big problem, and it is somewhat more of a blue state problem

Let's not pretend it isn't.

We do need to be aggressive and fix this shit, because it is bad on general principles and also it gives the Pubs ammunition.

The thing that pisses me off is the real reason why it's more prevalent in blue states. This whole time the Pubs have hated social welfare spending of all kinds. Pub administered programs have been doing damn near everything in their power to pay out as little as possible - including denying people / organizations that legitimately deserve the funding. Pub run states have less fraud in their social welfare programs because they have spent years trying to not pay out to anyone. Not to say they haven't had fraud too.

We've been compassionate and generous, which some thieves exploited.

There is an opportunity here to use their talking point against them, leverage it for national reforms that safeguard against fraud while also forcing red states to stop playing nasty games with deserved benefits.

[purr-rat beauty]

9. How.....Christian of him

I bet his book sales is out of this world

Vance is done, he has ZERO principles

Guyliner can suck a dirty buttplug