10 years ago
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Massive scam sends California teens to drug rehab for no reason
We have seen countless headlines of wrongful arrests, innocent people or pets being injured or killed, and a disproportionate amount of young minorities being incarcerated in the name of this failed war. Just when you think that the headlines cannot get any more depressing, or that this "war" cannot get any more bizarre, a story of fraud and lies within California's Medicaid drug rehab program that will make your skin crawl...
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"Using undercover cameras and stake-outs, Cooper's team found that the teens, few of whom suffered from any sort of addiction, were taken from the Southern California group homes to various drug treatment clinics, which in turn billed Drug Medi-Cal according to the padded attendance figures. Their investigation discovered that in the past two fiscal years, upwards of $94million was paid out to over 56 fraudulent SoCal clinics that were found to be using "questionable billing practices". That dollar figure represents over half of the total publicly funded budget for the program."
This is some fucked up shit, these people need to rot in jail for life. There is scams out there, but then there is this. Sick.
That's capitalism for you. Private clinics, questionable billing practices. If there is a buck to be made, it will be made.
The craziest part is that the government knows and does nothing.
Why would they, there is most likely people on all levels of government that are in on it. They are too somehow benefiting from it.
With things going the way they are, I wouldnt be surprised if government corruption is on the raise. Greed is rotting America from the inside out.