FRAUD AND CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS
A Failure of System Design, Utilization, and Compliance
Given the recent revelations about fraud in government programs, at Gingrich 360 we put together a report detailing the core problems and how we think they can be solved.
Fraud and corruption in government programs primarily result from flaws in system design, underutilization of existing fraud-prevention tools, and noncompliance with current legal requirements.
Fraud and improper payments are major and ongoing sources of government waste. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government loses between $223 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud, based on estimates from fiscal years 2018 to 2022. This figure does not include revenue-related fraud losses, such as tax credits or other fees collected by the federal government; it also excludes losses at the state, local, or tribal levels unless those losses involve a federal investigation.
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Now the report does a fantastic job on prevention… stopping the fraud before it ever happens… and that's great, that's exactly what you want. But you also need teeth on the back end. Real teeth. You've got to have it.
Mandatory minimum sentences for the big schemes. The really big ones. Hundreds of millions, sometimes billions of dollars stolen… billions… think of that. Automatic debarment across every federal agency. You get caught once, you're out. Out of HHS. Out of SBA. Out of Medicare, Medicaid, every program. Done. Forever.
And a public Fraud Offender Registry. Every name, every conviction, every penalty… right there online for the whole world to see. Because shame works. Shame is a very powerful thing. People don't talk about it anymore, but it works. It really works.
Because right now these networks… and they're networks, very sophisticated, very organized people, very bad people… they treat our federal programs like an ATM. Like an ATM. They walk right up, hit the button, the money comes out. No risk. No consequence. Nothing.
You change the risk-reward, you change the behavior.
The Failure of System Design and Utilization and Compliance is because the states administer the benefits and will not audit when feds ask and will not provide list of benefiiaries and cover illegal alins, etc, etc, etc. We must move the funding for welfare and health benefits to the states. The Federal Government can lower tax rates sufficient to cut out these services, opening the door for the states to raise their taxes to cover the services. That way the states are responsible for fraud and misuse. The closer services are provided to the recipients the more controsl on funding and servival. Local citizens will protest the state officials and vote in politicians who will be more considering of their citizenry- probably will end up worh more conservatives in office and blue states will turn Red. Newt you can get this started.