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The Medi-Cal fraud loophole Gavin Newsom doesn’t want you to know about
Vice President JD Vance needs to prioritize one policy change above all others as he leads the Trump administration’s crackdown on fraud in California and elsewhere: closing a loophole that is allowing thousands of illegal aliens to receive Medicaid.
Federal law requires states to verify the citizenship or immigration status of people who apply for Medicaid (which is Medi-Cal in California), but gives them a “reasonable opportunity period” to provide documentation.
The minimum grace period is 90 days, under federal regulations. But bureaucrats have stretched it into permanent enrollment, funneling our tax dollars to illegal aliens who shouldn’t even be in the country.
States add to the problem by granting new “reasonable opportunity periods” to the same people over and over again, keeping illegal aliens on Medicaid indefinitely.
For example, one Utah Medicaid applicant has been enrolled for 5,820 days without proving their immigration status. That is 16 years of welfare without proof of eligibility.
Read the full op-ed at the New York Post.