JD Vance Exposes Gendercare Fraud & Luigi Mangione May Plead Guilty? | 8.14.26

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VP Vance puts the gender transition industry on notice, citing a report that alleges widespread fraud and financial abuse of patients.

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Vice President JD Vance is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate allegations that some hospitals and health care providers fraudulently subjected children to lucrative sex change procedures.

**John Bickley** (1:44)
The allegations are detailed in a new report published by the Department of Health and Human Services, which reveals tens of millions of dollars in claims. Daily Wire White House correspondent, Mary Margaret Olohan is here now with more. Great to see you again.

**Mary Margaret Olohan** (1:58)
Great to be here.

**John Bickley** (1:59)
So tell us about the allegations detailed in this report.

**Mary Margaret Olohan** (2:03)
Yes. So the Department of Health and Human Services, they just released this report. We exclusively obtained it and reported it for the Daily Wire before anyone else had it. This is really fascinating stuff, John, because this is basically the first time that there's been a closer look from the Department of Health and Human Services at how these hospitals build insurance companies for these transgender medical procedures, or as they call it, pediatric gender care for kids. What we're finding is that these hospitals had built millions and millions of dollars in insurance for puberty blocker treatments for kids. As a reminder, these puberty blocker treatments are what they sound like. They're intended to stop a child's puberty. When this child is coming to the doctor saying, I think that I am a girl when they're actually a boy, those puberty blockers stop their body from developing.
Essentially, the transgender activists say that they're intended to help give them time to figure out what gender they want to be before they can start on these other hormones or transgender surgeries. But we know for a fact that these puberty blockers have really intense, horrific mental and physical side effects that no child should have to undergo. What JD Vance is arguing and a lot of these other administration officials is that these hospitals and clinics were essentially fraudulently using some of these codes to bill for these procedures when these kids didn't need them in the first place.

**Georgia Howe** (3:28)
Now, Mary Margaret, when they say that they fraudulently billed, do they mean that in the more general sense that any child doesn't need these things and yet they were billed for them? Or do they mean in the more specific sense of billing for a service that wasn't actually rendered?

**Mary Margaret Olohan** (3:44)
Well, Georgia, it's a little complicated because what they found was between 2015 and 2025, there were approximately $50 million in insurance claims for puberty blockers that were billed using the Endocrine Disorder Diagnostic Code, and that's E349, something like that, a billable code when a patient has a hormone problem. Now, if that code was being used when a patient did not have a hormone problem, essentially a healthy little girl, for example, who's being put on puberty blockers to try and make her or help her think that she is a boy, well, that could be considered fraudulent activity. And so JD Vance did not say dramatically that this is fraudulent activity. Well, what he did say is we're referring all of these things to the Department of Justice and to the HHS Inspector General for investigations because we think that this is what is going on here. So a massive undertaking on a lot of fronts, and it's actually aided by a lot of the gender activists or whistleblowers that you guys have interviewed here on the show that our audience knows really well. For example, Dr. Etan Haim, who is the Texas Children's Whistleblower. A lot of the people that we know who work at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Independent Women's Forum, they all dedicated their time to digging through these records and compiling this report.