Dr. Oz is wrong: Medicaid does not automatically register people to vote - Poynter

""By federal law, if you sign someone up for Medicaid, you also give them the right to vote," Oz said in a Jan. 6 interview on Fox News' "Ingraham Angle." "It's true for (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) as well. As you give out social services, you also get them registered to vote. So you're building up a very partisan group of individuals. This is political patronage at the expense of Medicaid.""

"Investigators have identified fraud committed by dozens of Minnesotans who they say have misused federal dollars, including Medicaid, for housing, services for people with autism spectrum disorder and money for children's nutrition. So far, the charges add up to hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud, but officials have said the amount could be higher. The majority of the defendants are Somalis. President Donald Trump cited the fraud schemes to support his immigration enforcement agenda; most Minnesota Somalis are U.S. citizens."

"We contacted Oz's office to ask for his evidence, including that voter registration at Medicaid offices creates a partisan group of people and is political patronage, and did not get a response. Federal law requires public assistance agencies to provide voter registration Oz was likely referring to the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which requires states to provide voter registration"

A claim that signing someone up for Medicaid automatically gives them the right to vote is incorrect. Federal law requires most states to offer voter registration at public assistance offices under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, but the right to vote is established by other laws. Assertions that voter registration tied to Medicaid constitutes political patronage are not supported by evidence. Investigations in Minnesota identified hundreds of millions of dollars in alleged fraud affecting Medicaid and other programs, with most defendants Somali; officials say the total could be higher. Requests for evidence linking Medicaid registration to partisan patronage received no response.

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