re: WSJ: $29 MILLION paid by Indiana Medicaid program to provide therapy to just 84 children

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Complete, COMPLETE fricking transparency with our taxpayer dollars has to be a top 3 issue for everyone moving forward, until the day comes that it is nearly impossible for these people to steal from us.

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I just don't know how it happens.

DOGE was a joke.

The corruption is so engrained between corporations and our government, I don't know how any 3rd party oversight doesn't get immediately corrupted.

The money is just too much.

Elon flat out said it's a bridge too far and irreversible.

From a guy that catches rockets with chopsticks.

Gaining the system and our tax dollars are giving them generational wealth. Criminals.

Tear it all down.

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Hey RFK - I think I’m spotting why autism diagnosis have skyrocketed.

"Home healtcare assistants" will be the real fraud goldmine – people getting paid to look after family members who don't really necessarily always need it.

Some ungodly percentage of new jobs created in New York City in the last few years have been home healthcare assistants. Last time I drove around Atlanta, the little yard signs and billboards were everywhere.

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It isn't theft in any way

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It's theft in every way. Just because our government doesn't call it theft, doesn't mean it isn't.

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but when you watch the government steal from you every day, I don't blame her at all. Get rich like them.

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Yes. The government steals from me. And she stole it back from the government.

My money still got stolen I'll blame her.

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Doesn’t seem like any rules were broken by Mitchell.

Unless she bribed officials to get the contract, I’m not mad at her. Blame the state here. At any point they could have found another provider.

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At some point she should have had moral or ethical concerns about her ability to just keep increasing rates for reimbursement. It seems like she just kept pushing to see how high she bill and get paid. She obviously didn’t have the same level of business expenses to justify the increased billing.

I don’t know enough to decide if she is a criminal, but I can and do pass judgment on her ethics and morals.

Copy/Pasted from Mrs Mitchell’s website - her value statement, presumably written with heart & soul and not AI:

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Piece by Piece values integrity and compassion above all other personal values. To us, integrity means being honest (even when it’s difficult), treating others with respect, holding ourselves accountable for our actions, and being patient and flexible when difficulties arise. Compassion is the other essential component to our organization. It is not enough to sympathize with others or to have empathy for them. Compassion compels us to do something to alleviate the struggles and suffering of others. Compassion allows us to see our clients and staff as whole, complex beings with needs outside of therapy that must be met in order for them to meet their goals inside the clinic. ? We are dedicated to providing high quality ABA therapy through the use of evidence based practices in applied behavior analysis. We collaborate with a wide variety of other professionals, including speech, occupational therapists, physical therapists, psychologists, physicians, and educators to ensure all potential variables impacting the child's behavior are addressed.

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Greed not even an honorable mention.

Oh that ‘integrity’ word.

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DOGE was a joke.

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It needed to be a federal agency with subpoena powers

And every state / parish needs their own.

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It was an agency created under Obama that was renamed and repurposed, but it needed a more defined purpose and powers granted in legislation than the agency renamed had.

Republicans in congress (specifically the Senate) should have stopped the silent filibuster and then along with the House passed the above along with legislating in cuts to budgets equal to all the waste and fraud. Also, pass legislation to codify the executive orders that just flip flop back and forth between administrations. The Dems will do away with or limit the filibuster anyway and tried already in 2022 with only 2 now former Sen Dems stopping them. Thune and others pretending to stand on principles is basically standing on keeping status quo. Republicans are horrible at being the majority party in congress.

There was nothing better than seeing DOGE attack the bureaucracy and then seeing the establishment freak out.

Musk got aggravated by the BBB, but with the RINOs and with the silent filibuster constantly used by Dems the omnibus bill was only way to get anything passed and that has limits on what can be included and can be done only once a year.