HHS Signals Bigger Shock Coming

Jimmy ParkerApril 15, 202644

HHS Drops a Big Hint

The Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Department is not pretending this story is over. Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill said on X that Somalia’s UN ambassador, Abukar Dahir Osman, is associated with Progressive Health Care Services, a home health agency in Cincinnati, and that HHS previously acted against the company over a Medicaid fraud conviction. That is not the kind of note people send when they want to calm things down. It is the kind of note that tells Washington’s favorite class of phonies to hold still while the spotlight gets brighter. O’Neill ended with a simple line: “More to come.” In other words, the file is open and the printer is warm.

Who Osman Is and Why This Matters

Osman has been Somalia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations since 2017, and he now serves as President of the UN Security Council. That gives him a highly visible role in global diplomacy, where he helps guide meetings, manage the agenda, and speak for the African group on major international issues. But before he became a big name at the UN, he worked inside Ohio’s taxpayer-funded welfare and Medicaid system from 1999 to 2012, including time as a supervisor in Franklin County’s Medicaid office. That background alone would be worth a closer look, especially when the same man is now linked to a healthcare operation that landed on a federal exclusion list. Government service should not be a revolving door into questionable business ties, though in the modern era some people treat public trust like a coupon code.

The Company at the Center of the Questions

Reporting cited by other outlets said Osman served as managing director of Progressive Health Care Services from 2014 to 2019, and was also listed as a statutory agent after he became ambassador. Public records tied to the company reportedly listed him as president and CEO as well. The bigger issue is that Progressive Health Care Services appears on the HHS Office of Inspector General’s November 2025 List of Excluded Individuals and Entities under Exclusion Code 1128(a)(1). That exclusion is used when a person or entity has been convicted of a criminal offense tied to fraud, theft, or financial misconduct in connection with healthcare items or services. When federal health officials put a company on that list, they are not sending a thank-you card. They are saying the company does not belong anywhere near federal healthcare dollars.

The Security Council Timing Is Awkward

The controversy lands at a very inconvenient moment for Osman, since he was presiding over an emergency UN Security Council meeting after the reported capture of Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro by U.S. special forces. That meeting drew loud protests from Russia and China, which rushed to defend Maduro and complain about American action, because apparently tyranny always finds its fan club. Now the man chairing that room is under scrutiny for ties to a Medicaid-fraud-convicted healthcare operation in Ohio. That is a strange look for someone in a seat built on law, order, and international authority. If the facts keep moving in this direction, the UN may find itself dealing with a lot more than diplomatic theater, and the American public has every right to wonder who got connected to what, when, and why.

Omg wait till you hear this

Somalia’s Ambassador to the UN Abukar Dahir Osman was a healthcare administrator in Ohio. There is another healthcare company in the SAME SUITE as his with a different name, and multiple others at the same address, all with Somali names

Of course… pic.twitter.com/sHv1aX1e5J

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 1, 2026

I can confirm public speculation that Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, Permanent Representative of Somalia to the UN and President of the Security Council, is in fact associated with Progressive Health Care Services, a home health agency in Cincinnati.

HHS has previously taken… pic.twitter.com/zWIlC63Qer

— Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill (@HHS_Jim) January 5, 2026