Elon Musk’s DOGE office and his cadre of teenagers have been given access to the payment systems of both Medicaid and Medicare, meaning that the healthcare payment systems for millions of Americans could be compromised, shut down, or otherwise tampered with by people who have no idea what they are doing. This is an egregious violation of the public’s trust in the federal government, and there is no reason for this to be happening. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s going on. Link – https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-aides-search-medicare-agency-payment-systems-fraud-wsj-reports-2025-02-05/ Subscribe to stay connected to our stories: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Support us by becoming a member on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Or Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Buy Ring of Fire merch: https://www.buyrof.com/ Find us on social media! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ringoffiremedia *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Elon Musk and his teenage tyrants at Doge have been given full access to the payment systems of both Medicare and Medicaid. This week. These kids, and I'm gonna call 'em kids because they're aged 19 to 25, the oldest of them is 25 years old, not appointed by any government, uh uh, you know, not approved by the Senate, not elected by the people. Not a ton of even life experience to speak of here. Um, these people now have access to the entirety of the payment systems and the information of the users. For 140 million people on Medicare and Medicaid in this country, 140 million people's healthcare is now in the hands of these little weirdos that Elon Musk has picked to run his doge, uh, you know, coup, basically. And there is absolutely no reason for this to be happening. There is no legal justification for it. There is no governmental justification for it, but it is happening. Now, the White House assures us like, well, they only have Reid only access. They can't edit anything. They cannot change anything. They can't get into the code and make, you know, whatever. But if you believe that, then you have to take Caroline Levitt's word for it. And given the amount of lies that we have seen come out of that woman in just the first two and a half weeks of her on the job, I don't believe her for a second. And to be honest, I don't think she even knows. So if she is lying, I'll give her full credit. I don't think she's lying intentionally. I think she genuinely doesn't know. So these people could have access to be able to change something, to go in there, break code and destroy the payment systems for both programs, killing healthcare for 140 million people. And if that doesn't terrify you, then nothing will. Like, congratulations. You're the bravest person in the world, but you should be terrified by this. Now, here's the thing that gets me, is they say that these kids are going, they're going through it. You know, there's two veteran agency, you know, people that are working with them and going through it with them because they're looking for waste, fraud, and abuse in the payment system, right? Lemme tell you, if you're just looking at a bunch of invoices and you're seeing total lines, which is what they have access to, you're not gonna see the fraud. Okay? There, there's not gonna be a line item on these invoices that says fraud, 8 million. Like, that's how much we're charging you. That's our fraud part of it. You, you're not gonna see it in the total numbers. You're not gonna see it in the code, which again, they have access to. But if we were told it's only read, only access, you're not gonna see fraud in the code of the program Running the system. But they tell us they're looking for fraud. You find the fraud through investigations. You find the fraud through audits. You don't find it by looking at numbers on a computer screen. That's not how that works. So they're lying to you about the justification for this happening. So it doesn't matter what they say beyond that, like, oh no, they only have read only access. Well, you're lying to us because you think most people don't understand how that works. If you could find waste, fraud and abuse just by looking at numbers on a spreadsheet, then there wouldn't be waste, fraud and abuse. The people who do commit it. And sure there is Medicare fraud, there is Medicaid fraud, go ask Senator Rick Scott about it. He'll tell you all about it and how it's done. But I mean, his company did it. He allegedly wasn't involved, you know, just for clarification. But still it was the company he was running. So yeah, there is waste and fraud, but again, it's not found by looking at numbers on a spreadsheet.