But let’s put this in context. The fraud occurred over a few years and is estimated to have been for about $9Bn dollars by the prosecutors. A number that is considered inflated by most independent analysts, but even if it’s like $5bn that’s pretty large, so let’s stick to the $9Bn and in fact round it up to $10Bn.
The fraud in Medicare and Medicaid alone is estimated at over $100Bn every year (irs probably higher). So even if this fraud occurred over 2 years, we’re talking about something that’s at most 5% of the total Medicare/medicaid fraud in the US over that period.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/09/how-medicare-and-medicaid-fr...
But this isn’t news to the current administration. In fact, to their credit, the justice department busted a $14Bn scheme about 6 months ago, which is already 50% greater than the size of the most inflated estimates of this scheme.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/national-health-care-fraud-ta...
And yet all the people defending cutting food to children (and not just in MN, but in other Democratic run states that have nothing to do with MN) have likely never even heard of that much larger scheme that was busted and led to absolutely no policy changes.