Los Angeles County accounts for about 18% of US home health care billing

Los Angeles County alone produces about 18% of the entire country’s home health care billing, has nearly 2,000 hospice agencies, and somehow beats more than 36 states combined while Florida and New York barely register by comparison. One doctor billed $120 million in a single year while claiming to oversee 1,900 patients, which is physically impossible. Investigators mapped 287 hospice providers packed into a two mile radius, operating out of strip malls, vacant lots, and even a wrecking yard. None of this is medicine. It is paperwork, rubber stamps, and a federal system that pays first and asks questions never.

Sigh. It’s not parody. It’s San Francisco. The city is shutting down a controversial program that used millions in taxpayer funds to provide alcohol to homeless residents struggling with addiction, according to the NY Post.

Mayor Daniel Lurie said the city will end the Managed Alcohol Program, which cost about $5 million each year and began during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“For years, San Francisco was spending $5 million a year to provide alcohol to people who were struggling with homelessness and addiction — it doesn’t make sense, and we’re ending it,” Lurie told The California Post.

The program was launched in April 2020, when the city placed unhoused residents in hotels during lockdowns. Medical staff supplied controlled amounts of beer and liquor to prevent dangerous withdrawal symptoms while stores and bars were closed. Although intended as a temporary measure, it continued for nearly six years.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/san-francisco-ends-5m-year-program-supplied-alcohol-homeless-addicts

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