One hundred billion dollars and counting: Useful idiots and the unions and politicians who deploy them

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One hundred billion in hospice fraud; another hundred — or more — in non-existant day care centers, then there’s the food stamp fraud, the medical equipment fraud, the $4.7 trillion flwoing out of the treasure with the Treasury Account Symbol (TAS) fied left blank, thereby making it impossible to trace back to the original Congressional appropriation programs, hundreds of millions paid as block grant slush funds to individual politicians in cities like Hartford and New Haven), and on and on and on.

The question is, why are Democrat senators, congressmen, governors and attorney generals fighting so fiercely against efforts to expose these frauds? The answer is obvious.

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RFK JR: "We shut down 800 hospices. You know what a hospice is? Where you're going to dieTypically, if you go to a hospice, you leave within 18 days because your dying is terminal."

"We started looking at these hospices in Los Angeles, and the people never died. Two or three years later they were there, and we're paying $6,000 a month."

"We found a hotel room with 29 hospices in it. I mean a hotel, every room was a hospice, and none of them had any patients. They were just addresses."

"The guys who own them, they were Estonians and Armenians and people from Eastern Europe who were getting the patient numbers. They were stealing them from doctors' offices."

"They were also going into poor neighborhoods in Los Angeles and they'd say to the people, 'We'll give you this $375 flat-screen TV. You give us your patient number and we're going to enroll you in this hospice. You don't ever have to go. We're just going to enroll you,' and then we'll charge Medicaid $6,000 a month forever. And the guy never dies, of course, because he was never sick."

"We didn't get a single call from a congressman or from a business owner saying, 'Oh, you shut down my hospice and all these patients are on the street.' None of them, because they were all crooked and they knew they were crooked."


“Republicans decided to cut Medicaid by around a trillion dollars — the only reason they did that was to pass along tax cuts for their billionaire and corporate friends — and the first impact of that is that people lose coverage,” said Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT). “When fewer people have insurance, and when the rates are lowered, health care institutions, hospital wards, hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes are going to close their doors. Your community hospital, the nursing home that you send your mother to, the maternity ward you’re planning to deliver your baby at, they are closing at an alarming rate, and that’s the consequence of the decision that Republicans made.”

AI Overview

Democratic lawmakers have largely opposed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) fraud investigations led by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans. They criticize these probes as politically motivated partisan attacks aimed at blue states, and they have expressed strong privacy and independence concerns regarding broad government anti-fraud data-sharing initiatives. [1, 2, 3]

Political Targeting and Funding Freezes
Democrats argue that the administration’s aggressive fraud probes are weaponized against Democrat-led states. [1]

  • Medicaid Crackdowns: The administration has frozen or threatened to pull federal Medicaid funding in states like New York, California, Minnesota, and Colorado, citing alleged fraud. Democrats argue that the administration focuses solely on blue states and relies on flawed or exaggerated data to justify the freezes. [1, 2, 3]

  • Boycotts: Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Homeland Security Committee largely boycotted a GOP-led hearing on emerging fraud threats, criticizing the event as a politically driven spectacle. [1]

Privacy Concerns
In the House, Democrats raised significant privacy concerns regarding legislation aimed at expanding federal anti-fraud efforts. They cautioned that data-sharing provisions pushed by the GOP could result in the collection of highly sensitive information across government agencies, functionally creating a massive, unauthorized database on American citizens. [1]