Fraud is and should be a bi-partisan issue

Blogger Note: This is not about voter fraud it’s about the scary amount of fraud uncovered in the last few months.

It started with “learing” centers in Minneapolis, then hospice care facilities in Los Angeles, now I got a bombshell Fox News alert about Medicaid fraud in Ohio.

Folks, what we must quit doing is blaming one party or the other when it comes to fraud.  Both sides do it; both sides may even be in on it together in certain parts of the country.  You mean to tell me that a guy with a camera phone/video camera, some free time, and some video editing equipment can uncover a massive fraud in Minneapolis regarding learning centers (schools) but no one else could?  Folks, the video and interviews are eye popping.  Learning center being spelled wrong on the main entrance sign.  Decrepit buildings and essentially vacant interiors.  No records of student attendance but they were inspected by the state (allegedly) and were definitely being paid.  There are tons of those centers, they exist in every state, and likely in each town, you may not realize it.

In Los Angeles, the story is the same but exchange learning centers for hospice clinics.  While I forget the numbers, I thought I saw 248 or so clinics existed in Los Angeles (City of or county-wide I do not recall.)  That is an ungodly number.  These places must be registered and licensed, also inspected by inspectors.  Many of these clinics existed in the literal same building.  Again someone(s) were signing off on paperwork, obviously forging/approving licensing and inspections, and paying fraudulent billing invoices for services not rendered.  Folks you need to be one sick human being to bill for the dead or dying, and likely for years; when you had zero customers.

Here are the Ohio claims…

Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is calling for a sweeping crackdown on his state’s Medicaid program after a report alleged that companies billed millions of taxpayer dollars from vacant offices, including abandoned buildings with piled-up mail, “out to lunch” signs and no visible staff.

The remarks came after a report by The Daily Wire that allegedly found 288 home healthcare companies listed at the same addresses, including locations that appeared vacant or in disrepair, with no clear signs of active business operations.

Ramaswamy vows aggressive Medicaid crackdown after report alleges millions billed from vacant Ohio offices

While I don’t take his comments or even the article at anything for than face value, this is now state number 3, with more on the way.  It’s a national problem.  The bigger issue is the people who aid and abet this behavior by trying to play partisan politics.

Time Walz (Governor MN) and Ilhan Omar (Congressmember – Somalia) both came out swinging that there is/was nothing to see here.  Blaming racism as most of these businesses were owned by Somalian people.  In Los Angeles it was more of the same. We always, here in California, excuse this fraud by claiming it’s a witch hunt, nothing to see here. These baseless claims are obviously done by a far right political blogger wannabe.  In Ohio, Mike Dewine, a Republican governor had this to say…

In a statement to Fox News, they insisted Ohio “has extensive oversight mechanisms in place,” noting that these include “Electronic Visit Verification for hourly care, requiring signed daily activity logs, conducting audits and surveys performing background checks on providers, and reassessing medical needs regularly…”

His office also pointed to “internal agency efforts to fight waste, fraud and abuse.”

That’s why these schemes are allowed to exist.  They are excused by folks in power, and in some cases, I wonder if these folks are directly in on it.  Can you say, Mrs. Newsom and diapers? Common sense will tell you that several clinics at the same literal building suite should raise a red flag.  Decrepit, outdated, falling apart buildings as well, but sadly in this country we follow the old military rules of “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”  We ask no questions, nor do we “trust but verify”.  We not only allow these schemes to perpetuate for years, but actually we encourage it.  Get your bill in, we will pay it faster. Jump through some hoops, we won’t even review it.  To be fair and honest, most of the corporate structure for these groups are layers of shell companies and LLC’s that are nearly impossible to track down. PO Boxes and corporate legalese make them impossible to track.  We should/need to put an end to this, but we won’t.  These stories will blow over; nothing will happen and back to business as usual.  Heck, we have an election to run.

Speaking of fraud, check this out.

Vice President J.D. Vance just dropped a political grenade: the US government basically ignores fraud under $1.5 million, but he’s promising a crackdown on the big fish.

“We do not prosecute fraud in this country if it’s under $1.5 million dollars per year,” Vance said in an interview with YouTuber Benny Johnson.

Vice President Vance reveals US doesn’t prosecute fraud under $1.5 million

Blogger unsubstantiated commentary:  I honestly think a lot of this fraud stems from Joe Biden/Kamala Harris open border for 4 years.  Untold numbers of people poured across our southern border and through unchecked (to be clear I am not insinuating they are all criminals) and received aid from the government and assistance from government groups (think USAID and other NGOs).  I think they got advice on how to get money from our government’s programs and spread out in every direction.  Then when they found the hot bed areas for fraud, or government that will look the other way, all their fellow brethren moved in as well.  Ever wonder why Dearborn, Michigan and Minneapolis, Minnesota are heavily populated by Muslims?  Again, not insinuating all Muslims are bad, but the countries they are coming from are the total opposite climate.  There is a reason this fraud is being reported in large numbers only in 3 cities; Minneapolis, Columbus and Los Angeles, the word is out in those cities no one asks questions.

Just my thoughts.  As mentioned, two states are pretty leftward leaning, one is rightward leaning.  It’s a bipartisan issue. 

The Chief