Poll: Americans don’t think recipients are ripping off Medicaid

Poll: Americans don’t think recipients are ripping off Medicaid

As some Republican leaders are pushing allegations that Medicaid recipients and their families are defrauding Medicaid, a new poll indicates that most Americans believe they’re far from the main culprit. Most respondents also said they thought the overall Medicaid-fraud push was just politics. In addition, the poll indicated that when it comes to defrauding the government, Medicaid wasn’t respondent’s top concern — it was taxes. The poll, by the…