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Political Corruption The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You
Started 5/9/22 by WALTER784; 101680 views.
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From: WALTER784
May-12
Either they're still hiding them or have already passed them out to Antifa and BLM members.
That's why we need to account for them to ensure the latter hasn't already occurred.
Edited to add: Obama did hint about creating his own militia!
FWIW
- Edited May 12, 2023 8:50 am by WALTER784
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From: WALTER784
May-12
California Doctor Faces $290 Million In COVID-19-Related Fraud Charges
BY TYLER DURDEN
SUNDAY, APR 30, 2023 - 09:00 AM
A doctor in Orange County, California, has been charged by federal prosecutors for orchestrating approximately $230 million worth of fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Department of Justice announced the charges against Dr. Anthony Ha Dinh and 17 other individuals on April 20. The total “intended fraud loss” among all 18 defendants is over $490 million, in which Dinh accounts for about 60 percent.
They said the charges are part of a coordinated nationwide effort of law enforcement to fight COVID-19 health care fraud.
Dinh allegedly billed the government through the HRSA Uninsured Program with uninsured claims for patients who actually either had insurance, were never treated, or had treatments that weren’t medically necessary, according to the DOJ.
The HRSA Uninsured Program was intended to provide reimbursement to medical providers who treated uninsured patients for certain COVID-19-related treatments during the pandemic.
Authorities say Dinh was the second highest biller to the program in the country. He allegedly used over $100 million of the money for high-risk options trading.
Dinh also allegedly worked with Hanna Dinh, also of Orange County, and Dr. Matthew Ho of Brevard County, Florida, to submit more than 70 fraudulent loan applications, obtaining over $3 million from the PPP and Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs, according to the Justice Department.
Dinh is scheduled for arraignment on May 22 in federal court in Santa Ana. If convicted on all charges, he could face up to 50 years in prison, according to federal prosecutors.
California Doctor Faces $290 Million In COVID-19-Related Fraud Charges | ZeroHedge
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From: WALTER784
May-12
That's what accountability checks are for.
And they need to be performed!
Either they're accounted for or they're not. And if they're not, what happened to them?
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From: WALTER784
May-12
Yes, back when Obama was POTUS.
Fast & Furious I was on the Mexican border giving Mexican cartels guns the ATF had confiscated.
Fast & Furious II was in Benghazi. Those were weapons procured by our government and given to terrorists which eventually ended up in the hands of ISIS.
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From: WALTER784
May-13
Sean Hannity 5/12/23 FULL END SHOW | BREAKING FOX NEWS May 12, 2023
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From: Showtalk
May-13
Why hasn’t the Obama administration ever had to answer for either of those mistakes?
- Edited May 13, 2023 9:10 pm by Showtalk
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From: WALTER784
May-14
Top U.S. “Non-Profit” Hospitals & CEOs Racked Up Huge Pandemic Profits
The top 20 hospitals pocketed $23 billion in Covid-aid from taxpayers. They profited from the pandemic while ignoring price transparency rules. Patient costs soared while life expectancy plummeted.
ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI
2023/05/11
OpenTheBooks.com auditors investigated America’s healthcare system and found so-called “non-profit” hospitals and their CEOs are getting richer while the American people are getting sicker and poorer.
Topline
The 20 largest non-profit hospitals in the country continued making massive profits while their cumulative net assets soared to $324.3 billion in 2021 from $200.6 billion in 2018. The year 2021 is the latest year available for cross-comparison purposes.
Those hospital systems received congressional Covid bailouts of $23 billion and only two providers partially paid their Covid bailout back.
Meanwhile, hospital executives racked up Wall Street-sized compensation packages which frequently exceeded $10 million per year. For example, the CEO at Ascension Healthcare based in St. Louis, Missouri made $13 million in 2021 – with three-year pay exceeding $22 million.
Furthermore, American life expectancy during this period sharply declined by a staggering 2.5 years from 2019 through 2022. While “comparable country averages” rebounded from a Covid-related drop in 2021, the U.S. continued declining in life expectancy.
Yet, the cost of health care is still astronomically high, as the average family paid $22,463 in health insurance premiums in 2022. That does not include out-of-pocket costs like co-pays and deductibles, which can be thousands more.
This has led to medical debt for about 100 million Americans.
In 2020, the Trump administration issued, and the Biden administration finalized (January 2021) a healthcare transparency rule – to spur market competition and inform patients.
Yet, two years after the rule took effect, an independent audit found that nearly three-quarters of hospitals in the country were not complying— flouting the mandate that prices be posted clearly and comprehensively.
GRAPHIC: CARES Act and ARPA provided big bailouts for wealthy non-profit hospitals during the Covid-pandemic.
Big Numbers
The 20 largest non-profit hospital systems saw their combined net assets soar 62 percent, or $124 billion, in the three years to 2021. You -- the U.S. taxpayer -- funded rocket ride. Examples:
The world-famous Mayo Clinic: Astounding 92 percent jump to $17.7 billion in 2021 from $9.2 billion in 2018.
Cleveland Clinic Health System: Up 60 percent to $15.6 billion in 2021.
Intermountain Healthcare: Up 63 percent to $11.6 billion. Tellingly, Colorado Governor Jared Polis had earlier cited Colorado hospitals for ‘non-profit profiteering.’
Northwestern Medicine: Up 43 percent to 11.9 billion.
Indiana University Health System: Up 47 percent to $10.3 billion from $7 billion in 2018.
Yet, not one of these systems complied fully with U.S. government price transparency rules, according to a key health care watchdog.
Crucial Quote
“This blatant obfuscation of prices and flouting of the rule demonstrates that implementation and enforcement efforts must be rigorously examined and markedly strengthened to improve compliance, enable technology innovators to parse the pricing data, and empower American consumers with upfront prices,” Patient Rights Advocate (PRA), in its February 2023 report.
PRA, a nonprofit fighting for systemwide healthcare price transparency, reviewed the websites of 2,000 U.S. hospitals, focusing on the nations’ largest health systems. In February 2023, the group found that under 25-percent were in complete compliance. In August 2022, PRA found only 16-percent of hospitals were compliant.
Yet only four hospitals have been fined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid – the federal agency responsible for creating and enforcing health and sa
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