{"id":24073,"date":"2026-05-04T08:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:48:35","slug":"how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Feds Pay Immigrants Billions To Hang Out With Their Families"},"content":{"rendered":"


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COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Just before the Department of Government Efficiency closed its doors, it made a quiet move that may end up its most lasting impact on the federal deficit.<\/p>\n

DOGE published a massive trove of data<\/a> in February that, for the first time, lets the public see what companies are billing Medicaid for. For decades, the payouts have been shrouded in secrecy. One of the largest government programs was a black box.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve spent the past two months diving into the numbers. What I found was the most blatant waste of federal dollars that I have encountered in my two decades as an investigative reporter.<\/p>\n

This is the first part of \u201cMedicaid Millionaires,\u201d a Daily Wire series exposing billions of dollars in dubious \u201cpersonal services\u201d payments where people are paid to spend time with their own family.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

I set my sights on Ohio, which like Minnesota has been granted waivers<\/a> to expand Medicaid well beyond its original purpose. Under the guise of health care, Ohio pays people to go to Medicaid beneficiaries\u2019 homes to perform \u201chomemaking\u201d and \u201cchores\u201d like cooking and cleaning. The people performing these \u201cpersonal services\u201d tasks don\u2019t even have to be health care workers \u2014 and in many cases, are actually relatives of the Medicaid recipient.<\/p>\n

According to a Daily Wire<\/em> data analysis, Ohio spent a billion dollars on home health care in 2024, the last year for which data is available.<\/p>\n

Since the services are performed inside private residences, there is no way to know whether the workers went at all, or what they\u2019re actually doing in exchange for taxpayer funds. An infinite number of small black boxes inside a black box. Multiple signs said the service provided, and billed to the government, was sometimes just \u201ccompanionship & conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

As people have realized the United States government will pay them to hang out with their own families, northeast Columbus has seen its economy replaced by businesses that bill Medicaid. And Columbus, a city with the second largest Somali population in the country, has become, on the surface, the most unhealthy city on the planet.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell if the government is going to pay you to do it,\u201d one home health operator told me. \u201cPeople see it as lucrative, so they just jump on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new welfare queens aren\u2019t the recipients whose low incomes qualify them for poverty programs. They\u2019re the companies getting rich off them.<\/p>\n

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A billboard in Columbus \/ Luke Rosiak<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Driving down Cleveland Avenue, in less than 40 seconds you come across endless home health companies. Capital Home Health; Continental Home Health; Dynamic Home Healthcare; Ohio Senior Home Healthcare. Walgreens\u2019 familiar logo is still faintly visible on the sign for what is now a dialysis clinic. Entire buildings throughout the city are filled entirely with what appear to be identical businesses.<\/p>\n

The enormous complex pictured below is 6161 Busch Boulevard. Its lack of windows would be a problem for most office buildings, but there is almost no one in this one. What\u2019s inside is 94 different companies signed up to bill Medicaid, each with a tiny office, often marked with a sheet of paper proclaiming some generic company name ending in \u201cHome Health LLC\u201d \u2014 and sometimes another piece of paper claiming the employees had just stepped out for a break.<\/p>\n

This building alone billed taxpayers $66 million in the span of a few years, the records show.<\/p>\n

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Luke Rosiak \/ The Daily Wire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Pick the owner of a Columbus home health care company at random and look him up in public records, and you are likely to go down an endless rabbit hole: years of unpaid taxes and debts, sometimes criminal records, and an astonishing number of LLCs created in other industries, as if the millions they make from Medicaid are just a side gig.<\/p>\n

We went down several of those rabbit holes. In the coming days, you\u2019ll meet:<\/p>\n