Posted on 05/22/2017 10:47:54 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
---SNIP--- As broke as he is, Solomon is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Chronic drug users like Solomon are commodities, exploited by a growing world of drug and alcohol rehab operators who put profit ahead of patient care. Everything from the opioid epidemic and Obamacare to prison realignment and legal loopholes has created conditions in which unethical operators can flourish, using addicts to bilk insurance companies and the public out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Though many legitimate centers remain, critics and long-time insiders say a darker version of the industry is emerging, built around an illicit world of patient recruiters, fraud-driven clinics and
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Contributing reporters/authors are:
TERI SFORZA, TONY SAAVEDRA, SCOTT SCHWEBKE, LORI BASHEDA, MINDY SCHAUER, JEFF GRITCHEN, IAN WHEELER
The federal government getting bilked our of our tax dollars on every hand, with no accountability for all these fake health programs. Many foreign scam doctors flock to these U.S. phony clinics like flies on manure.
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Once I noticed rehab clinics heavily advertising on TV and radio bragging that “it could be zero cost to you” I figured they must be scamming the insurance companies.
+1.
How do addicts get insurance?
And you pay for it!
Everything you need to know about the inevitable failure of any Progressive initiative is in this article. Mandating that treatment be covered by insurance and steering addicts from prison to treatment facilities seems oh-so-virtuous. The way Obmama care is implemented in California companies have to provide insurance the day someone arrives. Unscrupulous rehab operators recruit addicts and in some cases pay to bring them to the state and then use them to milk the system.
One thing is certain, the answer to this problem is more funding for drug-treamtment! /s
Wow.
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