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Top health policy expert calls Minnesota fraud ‘disgusting,’ warns Obamacare issues are nationwide

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4 weeks ago

Minnesota’s burgeoning social services fraud scandal is "disgusting," and emblematic of a broader nationwide crisis, a former National Economic Council health policy official told Fox News Digital.Brian Blase, president of the federal spending-focused Paragon Health Institute, said in a Friday interview that fraud has become pervasive throughout such publicly funded programs, and that a lot of the time, funds mismanaged by state officials are often federally sourced – meaning the entire nation can be hurt by one state’s scandal."It is disgusting," he said when asked about the alleged Minnesota...