Vice President JD Vance and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz have promised to crack down on Medicaid fraud and waste. The administration’s new Comprehensive Regulations to Uncover Suspicious Healthcare initiative aims to strengthen oversight and stop schemes that divert taxpayer dollars from vulnerable patients.

Vance and Oz not only have the right goal but also a concrete way to move on it: by halting California politicians’ abuse of the ambulance intergovernmental transfer loophole.