EXCERPT:
WILLIAMS: "Yeah, it‘s not deflection at all. In fact, I brought receipts. So here‘s the CMS, the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services right here, with their press release earlier this year saying they were having to increase their oversight on states like California, who were abusing Medicaid and classifying it as an EUSA, an emergency system, when it wasn‘t. You‘ve got the average state spends 5% of its Medicaid, roughly, on emergency services. California? 35 to 40%. Why would that be? Because California passed a state law that says, 'We will fund Medicaid for illegals. And then, oh, by the way, we‘ll raise our provider taxes. And then, oh, by the way, we use that as a match to draw down federal funds.' And they‘re using this whole cavitation process — "
McCAUGHEY: "An accounting trick to put it on the taxpayer."
WILLIAMS: "Money is fungible, and California‘s loophole is abusing it."