Speaking during one of his many hearings before Congress in the middle of April, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. commented on the massive amount of hospice fraud that is ongoing in the woke city of Los Angeles, revealing that the total cost of just that one form of fraud in just that one city could be $5,000,000,000.
As background, the continuing outrage over what is going on in California has come in large part thanks to independent journalist Nick Shirley, who has taken continuing and brave action to expose the ongoing fraud crisis and reveal what is really going on in that state and the ways in which it is wasting American and state taxpayer dollars.
The amount of fraud already discovered has been massive and infuriating, with conservatives getting particularly infuriated by the state of things in the state, namely the immense sums going to open and obvious fraud that Newsom’s government has seemingly done nothing of note to counteract.
So, when HHS Secretary RRFK Jr. appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee to discuss what he is doing to cut fraud, amongst other things, Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) asked Secretary Kennedy about the hospice fraud situation.
“We had a previous secretary who I asked questions about what was going on with the waste, fraud and abuse, and I don’t know if you recognize this, I asked Secretary Becerra the same question: What’s going on at 14545 Friar Street in Van Nuys, California? Does that, does that ring a bell to you at all?” Van Duyne asked.
Secretary Kennedy responded, “No, I, I, I could guess, why don’t you tell me?” The angry conservative representative continued, “We had over 100 different licenses for hospices, yep, right at this address, and we asked him what he was doing about it, basically nothing. Can you walk through what your office is actually doing on the waste, fraud, and abuse?”
The secretary then explained how he is cracking down on fraud in a major way. He began by saying, “We’ve already shut down 500 hospices and Los Angeles, and incidentally, we haven’t had one call from Congress or anybody else about complaining because clearly these were fraudulent. A lot of these places, like you say, they’d have, they were just invented addresses.”
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He continued, giving more details on the massive fraud, “It would obtain patient identification or they would pay people, they were going and giving people in poor neighborhoods flat screen televisions, $600 and then they would enlist them and enroll them in the hospice and we were paying them $6000, and the interesting thing is almost none of them ever died.”
“Typically, the stay in a hospice is about 18 days, these people stayed forever. Nothing ever happened because they weren’t actually there, they were just invented,” Kennedy continued, discussing the almost unbelievable amounts of hospice fraud that is happening.
He then noted the immense total cost, saying, “And it was operated by certain, foreign communities, a lot of Estonians and a lot of Armenians, and there’s an incredibly great Armenian community in Los Angeles and very few of them were involved in this, but the ones that were, were making hundreds of millions of dollars out of fraud and just stealing money from us. I think the cost has been about $5,000,000,000.”
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