“The US Department of Justice has announced charges for nearly 350 suspects in a sweeping bust linked to healthcare fraud. Among them are scores of medical professionals accused of scamming federal programs and private insurers.
The DOJ went public with the nationwide takedown on Wednesday, saying it had filed charges against 345 defendants across 51 federal districts, including more than 100 doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers.”
The $6 billion in this is just the tip of the iceberg, there is more to find, but the underlying condition is far worse than the symptoms. It’s a another example, of many, exposing the societal and cultural rot that has taken root over the decades. Cultural corruption has set in and it affects all levels of industry and government.
We have been sold on the complexity of systems being a good thing, it clearly is not. Complexity is a sham, it’s major failing is it’s ability to hide failure until the system is in collapse. At all levels complexity has been built in and it’s being used to hide corruption. In a simpler system with clearly defined rules and boundaries, corruption is easier to spot and eradicate.
If the people in the above case had been just abruptly taking money from the till, then spotting and catching them doing so would have been easy to spot. Instead they were able to hide in the complex web of overlapping government agencies and regulations by means of a complicated system of medical coding and billing. Besides the taxpayers being taken for a ride, there are also quite a few people out there that remain in suffering or who have died, because crimes like this contributed to medical care being financially out of reach.
As I mentioned before, this rot isn’t confined to just the medical community. All sectors of daily life are affected. Look at the scandals that have came out in recent years involving the IRS being used as a punitive tool to punish political enemies of the regime? Or how about the corruption at the Pentagon with contract awards for gear that doesn’t work or outright fails? Maybe take it down to the local level where local politicians scam the system to rake in grant money and take kickbacks under the table from their crony contractors?
If it wasn’t bad enough that little, if any, of this corruption is ever found out and prosecuted. Now the same mind set of perpetrators is set on corrupting your basic rights. Corruption in the media has been rampant for decades and none have ever been brought to justice for the deceit and outright fraud. Now they are after our right to vote. Originally we had one day to vote, then absentee ballots were added, now mail in ballots, now multiple weeks of voting and recently multiple days of voting …well after election day. All designed to complicate the process and obscure fraud, none of which will ever be found out and punished.
What will it take to clean out the rot and restore our nation? Sadly, I don’t think it’s possible, if history is our guide, then past experience should tell us the illness is terminal.
President Trump is our last hope, warts and all. If he falls, we fall and the nation will not survive the anarchy that follows.
