California has become ground zero for a massive hospice care fraud scheme that's bilking taxpayers out of millions while exploiting vulnerable patients—and it's exactly what you'd expect from a state where Democrats prioritize ideology over accountability.
According to explosive new reporting, bogus hospice businesses have flourished across the Golden State thanks to what investigators call "lax oversight" from state regulators who are apparently too busy pushing woke policies to actually protect patients and taxpayers.
The fraud scheme is as disgusting as it is predictable: scam artists set up fake hospice operations, recruit patients who don't even qualify for end-of-life care, then bill Medicare and Medicaid for services that are either substandard or never provided at all. Meanwhile, real patients suffer while bureaucrats collect their paychecks.
"This is what happens when you have a regulatory system more focused on diversity training than actual oversight," one federal investigator told sources familiar with the matter.
But here's the kicker—this isn't just incompetence. This is the inevitable result of California's big government, no accountability approach to everything. The same state that can't keep its streets clean or its power grid running somehow thought it could manage complex healthcare fraud prevention?
The Trump administration's focus on government efficiency through Elon Musk's DOGE initiative couldn't come at a better time. While California Democrats were virtue signaling about "healthcare access," actual healthcare criminals were running wild through their broken system.
The Real Victims
Lost in all the bureaucratic finger-pointing are the real victims: elderly Americans who deserved dignified end-of-life care but instead became pawns in a massive fraud scheme enabled by California's regulatory failures.
This hospice scandal is just the latest example of why states like California can't be trusted to manage anything properly—from homelessness to healthcare to basic public safety. Every program becomes a slush fund, every regulation becomes a loophole, and every oversight agency becomes a jobs program for political cronies.
How many more scandals will it take before Americans realize that bigger government isn't better government—it's just more expensive corruption?