<p>While hardworking Americans juggle grocery bills and sky-high property taxes, Ohio’s Medicaid money machine was apparently having a pretty great run.</p>
<p>Now Republican Ohio gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy says it is time to slam the brakes.</p>
<p>After Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak exposed what critics are calling a sprawling Medicaid cash pipeline operating across Ohio, Ramaswamy is now calling for prosecutions, taxpayer savings, and a crackdown on abuse inside the system.</p>
<p>“Common sense policies to say we&#8217;re respecting the rule of law,” Ramaswamy said on <em>&#8216;Saturday in America with Kayleigh McEnany.&#8217;</em> “Lawbreakers ought to be prosecuted. We should not apologize for that.”</p>
<p>The comments come after Rosiak uncovered a bizarre web of Medicaid-linked companies across Ohio, including one Columbus address tied to 94 separate businesses that reportedly billed taxpayers more than $66 million.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The taxpayer is not a piggy bank to be bilked. We will comprehensively review Ohio’s $40BN+ Medicaid expenditures and aggressively prosecute illegal abuses of the program. That starts in early 2027 &amp; we won’t hold back. <a href="https://t.co/MFRAU4B69z">pic.twitter.com/MFRAU4B69z</a></p>
<p>— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/2053147627932577793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The investigation blew the lid off some of the offices appearing practically deserted, with covered windows, generic “Home Health LLC” names, and little visible evidence that actual operations were taking place inside.</p>
<p>The reporting zeroed in on Ohio’s exploding Medicaid-funded home healthcare system, where loosely defined “homemaking” services like cooking and cleaning can generate massive taxpayer-funded payouts with limited oversight.</p>
<p>Rosiak’s investigation also highlighted how Columbus, home to one of the nation’s largest Somali immigrant populations, has seen entire neighborhoods flooded with Medicaid-billing home healthcare businesses as operators realized the government would pay people to provide “companionship” and care services to family members inside private homes.</p>
<p>Ramaswamy argued the issue goes far beyond bureaucratic waste.</p>
<p>To him, it is directly connected to why taxpayers feel squeezed in the first place.</p>
<p>“But these are taxpayer dollars that belong in the hands of citizens,” he said. “Property taxes in the state have gotten too high.”</p>
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<p>The Ohio Republican also connected the Medicaid controversy to his broader push to slash taxes across the state if elected governor this November.</p>
<p>“Income taxes in certain states are zero income tax,” Ramaswamy said. “I want Ohio to be such a zero income tax state as well, but that means we&#8217;re going to have to take a look at every other area of savings for the taxpayer.”</p>
<p>Rosiak’s reporting painted a picture not just of isolated fraud, but of an entire taxpayer-funded ecosystem where oversight appears weak, accountability appears scarce, and huge amounts of public money are flowing through companies that investigators say often raise obvious red flags.</p>
<p>One especially eye-popping detail involved a landlord whose buildings reportedly housed hundreds of Medicaid-related businesses billing the federal government hundreds of millions of dollars.</p>
<p>The investigation also highlighted how difficult the system can be to verify in practice. In some cases, family members are reportedly paid through Medicaid programs to “care” for relatives at home, with little meaningful oversight over whether services are actually being rendered.</p>

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