Just weeks ago, the Department of Justice announced a sweeping Medicaid fraud bust that exposed Arizona as ground zero for a massive scheme exploiting tribal health programs.

Federal prosecutors revealed how sham addiction recovery providers manipulated Native American status as a shield to siphon off hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars. Patients were recruited off the street with gift cards, clinics were set up in motels and trailers and paperwork was falsified. The state’s AHCCCS system, which was designed to support vulnerable Arizonans, including tribal communities, was looted in broad daylight.

More than just fraud, this episode was a betrayal of Arizona’s tribal nations and a slap in the face to every hardworking Arizona taxpayer.

And now, some in Congress want to open the fl

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