Newsom Smears Dr. Oz as ‘Racist’ After He Targeted Alleged California Medical Fraud

The last time I wrote about Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), he was reviewing the state’s use of Medicaid funding.

His initial assessment was that federal monies were being used for the healthcare of illegal aliens, which is prohibited. As an added bonus, some of our tax dollars went for the care of foreign murderers and rapists. As a result of his investigation, Oz is demanding that California pay back $1 billion.

Now, the head of CMS has launched a high‑profile push on alleged hospice and home‑health fraud in California. He has specifically linked part of this activity to “Russian‑Armenian mafia” groups in Los Angeles.

“Eighteen percent of the whole country’s home healthcare billing is coming out of Los Angeles County — how is that possible?” said Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. “It’s about $3.5 billion just in L.A. County for hospice and home healthcare.”

…At the briefing Friday, Oz and Essayli told reporters “foreign influences” were draining government healthcare programs, making care inaccessible to Americans while California leaders turned a blind eye...