The Deep State playbook is siphon all the funds out of healthcare and leave insufficient funds to treat actual patients, and then demand single payer because THIS system isn't working????!!!
Different financial numbers pop up in this document as $800 million there, $1.7 billion there. Here's an example:
Excerpt: "This is one of the largest health care fraud schemes ever investigated by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) and prosecuted by the Department of Justice, which previously resulted in charges against 21 other defendants. The enforcement action also includes three additional recent guilty pleas by other defendants. In addition, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Center for Program Integrity (CMS/CPI) announced today that all appropriate administrative actions would be taken based on these charges. As part of the announcement in April, CMS/CPI announced that it took administrative action against 130 DME companies that submitted over $1.7 billion in claims to the Medicare program. "
I liked this quote:
"“The physicians who chose to violate their oaths to “Do no harm” are nothing more than drug dealers wearing a white lab coat,” said Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Field Division."
Sheesh, these people are pure predators:
"Joseph Santiamo, 64, of Staten Island, New York, a physician specializing in internal medicine and geriatrics was charged for allegedly conspiring to distribute and dispense controlled substances, including oxycodone, in exchange for sexual favors, and outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Urbano of the District of New Jersey."
"Shawl allegedly wrote prescriptions for controlled substances for patients without seeing, treating or examining them. Shawl allegedly prescribed hundreds of prescriptions for oxycodone to approximately 16 patients amounting to over 29,000 oxycodone tablets."
" The claims allegedly were for “Goody Bags,” bags of medically unnecessary prescription medications that were dispensed by non-pharmacy dispensing sites owned by Anand. In total, Medicare, OPM and IBC allegedly paid over $4 million for the Goody Bags. Patients were allegedly required to take the Goody Bags in order to receive prescriptions for controlled substances. Malik and Kundi allegedly wrote prescriptions for controlled substances using blank prescriptions that were pre-signed by Anand or Makarova. Anand and Makarova allegedly prescribed over 10,000 prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances, of which over 7,000 were for oxycodone totaling over 634,000 oxycodone tablets. "
"Search and seizure warrants are being executed today at approximately six different locations. "
The most corrupt societies are always socialist ones.
I would wager most are registered Democrats being nurtured and helped by other corrupt Democrats. It would be an interesting study to evaluate the background of these crooks.