This is the fourth installment of James O’Keefe’s Medicaid sting and there is no end in sight. This one takes place in Virginia, and as we saw in Ohio, the Carolinas, and NYC the Medicaid workers there are more than willing to help wealthy criminals grab a hunk of government cheese.

As always, this is a must-watch that will leave you shaking your head in disbelief. By now I am convinced it is darn-near impossible to actually get turned away for any reason when walking into a Medicaid office. You could say “I have a stack of corpses in my basement; will that be a problem?” and they’d probably just tell you not to put that on the application.

Still waiting for the media to show an ounce of interest in any of this.

***Thanks to Ace and Instapundit for the links!***




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23 comments
Glenda Wallace
Glenda Wallace

Unbelievable! This is sooo NOT right!!! I can't find the words to descibe how this makes me feel! Drug testing for all Medicaid/Welfare recipients should be MANDATORY, if you fail, you don't get it!!!

Sherry Pigeon
Sherry Pigeon

What alarms me the most is that we have emergency medicare for illegals. Illegals should have their own medical funds. If we went to their country we would have to pay our own way or get shipped out immediately. She is just answering his questions there is no way to know if she is going along with a twisted program or just being a drone. Either way I think this country is going broke because of a system that is willing to pay for anyone or anything as long as the right people are guaranteed to be reelected back into power. Now that is a whole other story and one of great concern, but most people are just dumb and don't think beyond what a politician tells them with a smile. The people of this country won't wake up until the cash cow runs dry and they all get kicked off welfare.

rightactions
rightactions

They put my income down as double what I said it was.

If Obama-drones could master basic numbers, they too would fear the debt-bomb they're creating.

...they told me that I am eligible for Family Planning Program and I am 62 years old.

Shh. The Obama-nation is behind on its quota of aborted babies and the feminists they've been shagging at Planned Parenthood want their money.

Michael
Michael

WHY IS THE DATE STAMP January 4, 2007?

Brian Jones
Brian Jones

This is amateur stuff.

The *real* megabucks fraud comes from the operations that obtain patient info through theft or bribery. After that, all you need do is to make the billing codes look plausible and away you go. Medicare/Medicaid pays the claims pretty much automatically and only after the checks have cleared and the thieves are long gone do they sometimes realize they've been had.

Insurance companies are biased toward denying claims, or so the story goes. Even taking that argument at face value, flipping that bias upside down in favor of approving claims is far worse...because the money needed to treat deserving recipients runs out.

egoist_capitalist
egoist_capitalist

Supplant any member of Congress / Senate... with the Russian dude; no diff.

ge carroll
ge carroll

why has it taken us over 22 months to get my father in law on medicaid. He is 92, Aa WW II vet, his monthly income is about 1600 dollars, and he was influenced over 5 years ago to sign his house away to 3 grand sons. There is no way that he doesn't qualify and yet . . . . . . we are still producing papers and papers and on and on and on and he is in a nursing home and they have all his money and yet..

Summer Williamson
Summer Williamson

It's just another way for Obama to kill off our elderly, they could give a rat's ass about what happens to any of us. Take foe instance: A very good friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer, he went to M.D. Anderson to get help, they turned him away because he had assets. He sold everything, filed for bankruptcy, he lost everything he had worked so hard for over the years plus his dignity. He went back to the hospital, got treatment, and the cancer came back, worse now than it was before. Well since he now has a house and vehicle, once again he was turned down. So what is a person to do ?, live in a cardboard box.

Summer Williamson
Summer Williamson

It's just another way for Obama to kill off our elderly, they could give a rat's ass about what happens to any of us. Take foe instance: A very good friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer, he went to M.D. Anderson to get help, they turned him away because he had assets. He sold everything, filed for bankruptcy, he lost everything he had worked so hard for over the years plus his dignity. He went back to the hospital, got treatment, and the cancer came back, worse now than it was before. Well since he now has a house and vehicle, once again he was turned down. So what is a person to do ?, live in a cardboard box.

The Ancient
The Ancient

You will never fix the federal government from inside.... Only Complete Reset will fix it

Josh
Josh

Have to agree. Don't like it, but I only know of about 10-15 freshman in Congress that would give up their "jobs" for the country.

Greg M
Greg M

Nail on the head. "Progressivism" is redistribution by desing...

The Ancient
The Ancient

If that is the case then liberty is already dead and this discussion is worthless

The Ancient
The Ancient

That is there goal, I just dont think it will end in the way they want.

and to be perfectly honest we have long past (we past it before obama) the point where America as we know it today could be saved ....

The only thing that will save the Republic now it is a constitutional Convention by the states to completely change the federal government.

That WILL happen, it will either be because the government collapses, or because the states get fed up, right now it will be because of total collapse.....

If a "small government" person gets elected in 2012, AND if the riots do not turn in to a all out civil war since Obama lost, then it may be a states fed up thing, because even the smallest government republican is still a big government person.

The Ancient
The Ancient

You give these people far far far too much credit...

They are useful idiots..... Pawns nothing more.

That lady in the video could not form an independent thought if you gave her one

Summer Williamson
Summer Williamson

Idiots they are, they don't even try to go by what their manuel says, not the least little bit.

The Ancient
The Ancient

Sadly I am not surprised by any of this, There is really no defense for the workers, even if they, as some people claim, just "scared" or trying to get rid of the person, they do not act scared and could simple state as they should "I am sorry the program is not for you have a nice day" but they do

I am more alarmed or concerned to the fact she refers to a tax payer funded program as "Obama's Stuff" like he is a messiah that bestowed on to them the power of medicaid

Summer Williamson
Summer Williamson

I agree with you 100%, as for the "Obama Stuff", I don't think he is the Messiah, he is more like the ANTI CHRIST.

rightactions
rightactions

Do you realize 2/3rds of your Protestant readers are wondering, "Obama is Pope?"

dpappas3
dpappas3

Mr. President, I think here's a source of waste, fraud and abuse that can be used to enhance revenue for paying down the debt.

StingRay
StingRay

He couldn't possibly say anything about this. It may short some of his dear illegal aliens... You know the other 30% of his votes!

Summer Williamson
Summer Williamson

Yeah, if they would go and check these people out they would find so many fraudulent cases that yes it would help with our debt crisis. I am sick of this kind of behavior from the government.