Democrats routinely describe Republican efforts to strengthen Medicare and Medicaid program integrity as “healthcare cuts.”
A new hospice fraud story shows why that is exactly backward.
In his fifth podcast in the “How to Win 2026” series, Newt Gingrich identifies four immediate Republican healthcare commitments. One is to protect Medicare and Medicaid by stopping fraud and extending the life of both programs.
The hospice scandal is a real-world illustration of that argument.
The Associated Press reported on Linda Henry, a healthy 71-year-old California woman who discovered that someone had fraudulently enrolled her in hospice care. Because Medicare believed she was receiving end-of-life care, it began rejecting bills from her actual doctors.
