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RUMORS OF THE DEATH OF DOGE ARE GREATLY EXAGERATED

1. Fullgoldcrown says:

   February 14, 2026 - 1:15 pm at 1:15 pm

   Beyond all reckoning, the goofy DOGE geniuses did it! It’s done. For six years, they guarded this data like the nuclear codes. Yesterday, DOGE slapped it on the internet, ribbon-wrapped for Valentine’s Day. DOGE —whose death was obviously slightly exaggerated— just dropped a tactical nuke on both the vaccine debate and welfare fraud— and launched the biggest crowdsourcing project in human history. Yesterday, Axios ran the story headlined, “Elon Musk declares victory with Medicaid data release.”

   https://www.axios.com/2026/02/14/elon-musk-doge-medicaid-fraud-hhs-database

   He should declare victory. DOGE teams originally accessed the HHS data in February, over the backs of hysterical Democrats and enough lawsuits to keep a medium-sized law firm busy for a decade. Since then— crickets. Until now. And it was the most Elon solution ever. They open-sourced HHS’s top-secret Medicaid claims database —11 gigabytes worth— and dumped it on the internet before Democrats could even say “injunction.”

   The release was framed as an anti-fraud move, surfing a wave of public outrage washing out of Minneapolis and Nick Shirley’s viral video. In making the announcement (on X, of course), DOGE-HHS pointed out, “For example, using this dataset, it would have been possible to easily detect the large-scale autism diagnosis fraud seen in Minnesota.” The space billionaire quickly chimed in. “Medicaid data has been open-sourced, so the level of fraud is easy to identify,” Musk wrote. “DOGE is not a department, it’s a state of mind,” he added. ? Wastin’ away again in DOGE-eritaville. ?

   The 11GB file can be searched or downloaded at OpenData HHS

   https://opendata.hhs.gov/

   and includes aggregated provider-level claims data, by billing code, by month, between 2018 and 2024— bookending the whole pandemic period. (Note— It does not contain patient-level data.) It includes records from all Medicaid claims submitted by providers for reimbursement during that period.

   This is clearly not just a DOGE project. It is a coordinated effort across the Trump Administration. For example, timed with the release of the data, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a related new program. Not only have they open-sourced the research, but they have gamified it. Bessent said Treasury was setting up a website for people to report Medicare fraud— and they’ll get up to 30% of whatever’s fined and recovered.

   https://x.com/MAGAVoice/status/2022410612689768945

   If the $1 trillion fraud estimate is even half right, the government just turned fraud detection into the world’s largest treasure hunt. Some kid in a bedroom with a laptop, a chatbot, and a case of energy drinks might make more money this year than most hedge fund managers. Dog the Bounty Hunter: Fraud Edition is coming soon, to a laptop near you.

   Social media quickly began lighting up across the board. Within hours of the data release, citizen analysts had started flagging facilities billing for physically impossible numbers of procedures, clinics with addresses at residential apartments diagnosing hundreds of children with autism per month, and at least one provider that seems to have performed more Medicaid services than there are actual humans in its zip code.

   At least one intrepid nerd has already put up his own website with enhanced searches, graphs, and plots. For another example, informatic superheroine DataRepublican quickly noted a bizarre coincidence:

   

   What she was signaling was that HHS lists 184 active Medicaid providers supposedly operating in a small (11,000 sq ft), rundown commercial building at 2614 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, not even including fake daycare centers. That’s bad enough, but it’s not even close to the whole story. This next part will blow your mind.

   In a fabulously Fortean coincidence, the Nicollet Avenue building was also the same spot where Alex Pretti got himself shot by CBP agents. Sit with that for a moment. Take it in. Were ICE agents at the little building to round up immigrants … or something else? Something fraud-related?

   Who knows. But it makes you think. In the meantime, in less than 24 hours, here’s what we’ve learned:

   It’s easy to find fraud flags if you are looking for them.

   Simple cross-checking against other publicly available data helps a lot.

   The hardworking federal employees at the big government agencies have been unable to accomplish these trivial tasks, and it’s costing us up to a trillion dollars a year.

   Thanks to Treasury’s bounty, fraud finding is now a well-paying job that anybody can take.

   The fraud hunt is on! Uncover a single fraudulent provider, and possibly earn millions! It’s even better than Bitcoin. Stop learning to code right now, and get out there and find Jimmy Buffett’s lost shaker of salt.

   The $1 trillion fraud story is big; and sufficient to justify HHS releasing these records. But somehow I don’t think welfare fraud is even the biggest story in this data.

   ? Unaccountably, the CDC stopped updating cancer incidence data in 2022. Not a peep since, except excuses about how difficult the pandemic made data collection. No government agency has ever plotted vaccinations against various adverse diagnoses, even though —maddeningly— that data has been available in the vast Medicaid database the whole time. To give you an idea, 70% of most hospitals’ revenue comes from Medicaid/Medicare, for everything from the initial jab, your colonoscopy, the MRI, chemo, radiation, and then evaluating you for hospice care.

   For years, we’ve begged them: If they won’t do it, give the data to us! Scrub the patient identifiers and let us try to find links between vaccines and adverse events. I’ve written about it many times over the difficult pandemic years. We’ve tried begging state agencies that pass the claims through to the federal government. Fifty states, and not one cracked, not even Florida. Never.

   Until now.

   While most folks were off and running hunting for fraud bounties, the covid warriors instantly saw the other, riper fruit hanging higher up in the HHS data’s branches. For example, optical mouse inventor and anti-vaxxer Steve Kirsch was, apparently, up till midnight last night, crunching numbers:

   https://x.com/stkirsch/status/2022576525955285173?s=20

   

   Independent VAERS researcher and published biologist Jessica Rose was also busily digging:

   https://x.com/JesslovesMJK/status/2022590278691909866?s=20

   

   There are many more; and it hasn’t even been a full 24 hours yet. Just wait till Jessica figures out how medical billing works. And now they have AI to help crunch the numbers, build spreadsheets, put up websites, and suggest, “Would you like me to draft the lawsuit?”

   Since the agency was birthed by progressive geniuses in the Carter Administration, HHS has diligently protected the privacy of Big Pharma by keeping a death-grip on Americans’ health data. Even though, during the exact same period, we got fatter by the minute, our health got worse and worse, and we spent more and more trillions on healthcare. It’s none of your business because privacy. Science! Trust the experts! Shut up!

   Now, taking the corporate media, pharma, and the political establishment completely by surprise, the data is suddenly out there. The VAERS data looked awful, but they wriggled out of that trap by sneering that the adverse event-reporting system —the system they created— was unreliable. But now we have a second data set— and it includes vaccination records.

   What happens when the HHS data confirms the VAERS data? What will they say then?

   I don’t say this lightly: this historic HHS data release could be even bigger than the Epstein files.