Health Secretary RFK Jr. Reveals 1.5 Million Illegal Aliens Were Caught Illegally Collecting Medicaid

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Democrats thought they had the perfect gotcha moment ready to go during Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s testimony before the House Education and Workforce Committee on Friday.

Texas Democrat Rep. Greg Casar tried to put Kennedy on the spot, demanding to know whether he had personally met with any of the 1.4 million Americans who reportedly lost their health insurance over the past year.

Kennedy’s response was instant, devastating, and left Casar scrambling.

“They’re almost all illegal immigrants,” Kennedy said flatly. “We found 1.5 million illegal immigrants illegally collecting Medicaid.”

Watch the exchange:

That moment landed like a freight train. The Democrat’s entire framing of the question was built on the assumption that heartless Republicans were stripping health coverage from innocent, hard-working Americans. Instead, Kennedy flipped the script entirely: the people losing coverage weren’t victims of a cruel policy. They were people who were never supposed to be on the program in the first place.

And it didn’t stop there. Kennedy went further, explaining that thanks to DOGE, the administration was able to determine that nearly a million people were claiming Medicaid from multiple states simultaneously. “That’s illegal, it’s theft, you’re not allowed to do that,” Kennedy stated.

The Blaze captured the key exchange:

Kennedy also tore into the Biden administration’s handling of fraud across the entire Health and Human Services system. He told lawmakers he was “shocked” to discover that Biden had actually directed HHS to stop all program integrity activities. Let that sink in. The previous administration actively told the fraud cops to stand down.

The Washington Examiner reported on the broader hearing:

Kennedy disputed responsibility for measles outbreaks, noting they began in January 2025 before he took office. He stated the U.S. had approximately 2,200 cases while Mexico had three times the number with a fraction of the population. Canada had double the U.S. count with one-eighth the population.

Kennedy told lawmakers that HHS estimates fraud across its entitlement programs costs taxpayers roughly $100 billion a year. “If we stop fraud just in Medicare, we can extend that program for another five years,” he said.

The administration also ended the old “pay and chase” system, where HHS would pay claims it already knew were fraudulent and then try to recover the money later. Under Kennedy, HHS now reviews every claim before payment goes out.

Think about that number for a second. One hundred billion dollars a year in fraud. That’s not a rounding error. That’s a staggering amount of taxpayer money flowing out the door to people gaming the system while actual Americans struggle to afford their prescriptions.

Kennedy also pointed out that under the Biden administration, 850 fraud-suspended providers had been quietly reinstated. HHS under Biden was literally reopening the doors for people they’d already caught committing fraud.

The Maine Wire had more on the pay-and-chase scandal:

“Under the Biden Administration, we were paying claims that we knew were fraudulent before we paid them,” Kennedy testified. “It was called the ‘pay and chase’ system, and we’ve ended that now, so now we look at every claim and make sure that it is not fraudulent.”

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced replacing “pay and chase” with a “detect and deploy” strategy using AI tools to identify and stop fraudulent payments before they are issued. Under Kennedy’s leadership, HHS also shut down 500 fraudulent hospices in Los Angeles alone.

Five hundred fake hospices. In one city. Getting paid with your tax dollars under the previous administration.

Kennedy’s performance on Friday was exactly the kind of accountability that Washington has been missing for decades. Democrats tried to weaponize the hearing as an attack on President Trump’s healthcare agenda. Instead, they walked into a buzzsaw of facts about their own party’s failures, and the 1.5 million illegal aliens siphoning Medicaid was just the tip of the iceberg.



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