In Indiana, spending on a single Medicaid program for behavioral therapy for autistic children rose 30-FOLD in six years; the state spends $75,000 per child per year.
eight years into our journey i would say that ABA is basically dog training and not at all beneficial to kids. best results come from diet and exercise. our oldest basically had no muscle tone at all in his entire body including his eyes & eardrums, so it takes a lot of work to basically target everything.
I wasn't going to say it because I haven't seen the programs in action and didn't want to offend (I know, hard to believe), but in reading their descriptions, dog training is unfortunately what came to mind.
I'm self-employed and write out huge checks to the IRS every quarter. My self-employment tax -- which is what goes toward SS/Medicare/Medicaid -- is substantial. This vast and rampant fraud has made me even angrier than I was during COVID. There were a couple of years, more than a decade ago, where I didn't pay enough estimated taxes and do to a variety of things wasn't making as much the next couple of years. The penalties and interest kept adding up and I kept paying, ending up paying far more than what the original tax was. But I did it because I owed the tax. And yet ... there are people, aided and abetting by politicians, scamming the system and getting away with it over and over. Yes, I am super angry.
This is where I am. I'm sick of hearing about all the fraud with no consequence. I feel like a sucker. I feel morally obligated to stop paying taxes however people like me end up in prison when we try to stand up to the 'machine'. It's disgusting.
It's all a scam. Here is the medicare accounting in 2025 for me. This is not complaining just seeing where/how the money goes. I have Kaiser Medicare Advantage, I'm 78, relatively healthy but with some chronic conditions that get high tech drugs. I have a good retirement income from pension, social security and savings generating tax free income. Thus I am penalized and have to pay 742 a month (8910 annually) and it's deducted from my Social security. In 2025 Kaiser billed Medicare 49,937 and collected 36096 (my copay for this was $1499). In other words I paid about 10,409 or over 1/4 of the services, It's all a game.
I absolutely detest that social security gets taxed if you have income. I'm an author. I'm going to have royalties hopefully for the rest of my life. I have paid through the nose every year toward social security through the self-employment tax and there's no way I'll see it all (I'm not planning on retiring until I'm 70 and will probably qualify for the maximum SS allowed.) But it will likely be taxed even if I don't make a huge amount in royalties. I don't have a retirement because I had to cash it out to pay the IRS penalties and interest, and it doesn't seem worth it to start one now when I'm 56.
the important thing to realize is that this is everywhere and crossed all lines. The worlkng are getting scammed by the idle. The worst mistake that can be made is racializing this. its not just Somalis or immigrants. its across the board and not only stealing from taxpayers, its depriving those truly in need.
The real scandal in Minnesota is that no one seems to care that the people were stealing money earmarked for poor kids. We have fallen far.
You're right, and that makes it doubly bad. I'm originally from California and the absolutely fraud and waste in the homeless programs was so frustrating. It's called the homeless industrial complex for a reason. People need help, and the government is throwing money to friends and family and then begging for more and yet the streets are filled with addicts and the mentally ill who are dying. Makes me sad and angry.
We need DOGE back now and for the spineless republicans to ignore all the whining, blaming and accusing of the democrats why we can’t eliminate all this waste. There is enough evidence to tell the dims to go pound sand! Elon was wrong, the fraud bill is likely to be much higher than one trillion when it’s all added up over all the government programs.
How did we get so complacent?! The phrase come from a movie I saw decades ago about Moauri culture that had descended into chaos. It was a hard movie to watch but it has stayed with me. I think of it when taking a look around our culture these days.
I'm an employer, and as such have to pay half of all my employees' social security taxes, and both ends of my own. I started collecting my benefits last year, and was outraged to hear that in my state undocumented foreigners as young as 17 were being handed checks and benefits larger than my own, free education and medical care, and given drivers' permits and even licenses without having to prove citizenship, or take road tests. When I discussed this with friends and colleagues some refused to believe it, and I wondered if it was true. Of course the government never officially acknowledged the extent of the abuse. When I spoke with government employees I knew, they confirmed much of what I was observing and said they might lose their jobs if they talked about it, much less dared to go to the media (who wouldn't have been sympathetic anyway). I pray the tide is turning!
I feel your pain. I am so sick of being the world's ATM machine. I have no problem helping people who TEMPORARILY need help. There needs to be some sort of security net, and I'm good with that. But to open the borders and hand out our tax money to the detriment and pain of American citizens? A hard no. Then finding out that so many foreigners are committing massive fraud with the aid of our politicians and bureaucrats? That really makes me angry.
Same here. I spend about $20K just for SS/medicare taxes from 1099 income. I've looked at various options that would save me on the SS/medicare piece. However, I then have to pay keep track of W2, pay unemployment taxes, pay a bit more for CPA come tax time. I can't decide if the extra paper work is worth the savings!
And then there are all the complaints about how the US spends more per capita on healthcare than anyone in the world. It’s because of the fraud and abuse that 90% of it occurs. Not to mention subsidizing the world’s drug development.
Not completely related to It’s True’s comment but, it’s just amazing how many people keep saying how evil the Democrats are especially after this shooting in Minnesota. And yet, all people do is just document the evil and then life goes on like it’s acceptable appropriate and unavoidable.
It just amazes me that Democrat filth is totally destroying lives and people think they are immune and sheltered.
Oh well, it’s only a matter of time before this evil touches all equally painfully and terminally. The adage is so true, most Americans stand for nothing and fall for everything.
Fraud is directly correlated with Democrats and their imported voters from low-trust societies. Now Zohran and Hochul are pushing for "universal healthcare" in New York. That is code word for mass patronage and looting for their voter base. Let a thousand Somali learing centers bloom! Feel the warmth of collectivism: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/zohran-warmth-of-collectivism
didn't they just declare bankruptcy (or what that the DCCC)? Between being stuck with Kamala's debts, and all this, it's a bit nuts. It's also not coincidental at all that they're financial problems showed up right after USAID was gutted.
These protests are well organized. Participants are trained to obstruct. Signs are made and handed out. None of this happens by chance. You can thank George Soros and Neville Roy Singham, who lives in China, for bankrolling all these "spontaneous" protests. Singham's wife is the founder of Code Pink.
And these degenerate Repubs in Congress just go along and always allow added spending. Could probably balance the budget without all the fraud. Mind boggling.
I'm a Republican and have been my entire life -- except for a few years as a libertarian which I did because I was so angry with Republicans for exactly this reason. Too many of them have no backbone to actually do something to stop this BS. (Rand Paul is a welcome exception, among a few others.)
Five Republicans voted with Dems, against Trump on actions in Venezuela without Congressional approval. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Todd Young of Indiana. I hope the voters of Maine vote for another Republican for Senator and rid us of Collins, who should just change her party affiliation to Democrat. Guaranteed that at least 3 of them would vote against Trump on any action he proposed to take in Venezuela.
The NGO issue MUST be addressed too. Musk always said it was by far the most surprising aspect of corruption he was unraveling with DOGE until the swamp neutered him!
If HE can't figure it out as to WHO no one can! Sometimes I think it is WHY the ORIGINAL DOGE was neutered so much. ELON was just too GOOD and exposing!
It's becoming painfully obvious that a big chunk of the $38.5 trillion in national debt is attributed to outright fraud and stealing of our tax $. It's the biggest transfer of wealth and looting of a people in the history of civilization.
And remember the national DEBT was 15 trillion LESS right before the PLANdemic hit at 23 TRILLION (Feb 1st 2020). Look how much $$$ was PRINTED and doled out across the USA in that PLANdemic under the guise of EMERGENCY giving unelected officials POWER
They destroyed many small businesses. The owners said at the time that they were having a hard time getting covid money. Now we find out that some in Congress got covid money fraudulently. Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster (EIDL), Shuttered Venue Operators Grant , Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF). Guy Fieri and Dave Portnoy both raised money for small business owners because they couldn't get government help.
Scott Bessent has been saying the past few days in his opinion there is a REAL possibility after all investigations are complete WE THE PEOPLE will come to realize that there is close to 600 BILLION annually in FRAUD. Elon in the early days of RAW DOGE was stating the same. I think both were not even including what the FRAUD #'s annually are from medicaid abuse!
What infuriates me is that my brother had to pay $3,000 out of pocket for a PET scan after a stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis because his shitty Obama health care wouldn’t cover it. So bureaucrats, scam artists, and others are reaping billions while good people playing by the rules get fucked.
So many of the obama care plans are "shitty" and far more expensive than the insurance they replaced. Many in my extended family that are self employed or work for employers that don't offer medical insuracne simply can't begin to afford the premiums as indivdiaul insurance polices are even higher priced and on top of that, super shitty.
Sorry to hear. I know logging is often a high accident risk business. Sadly, Obamacare specifically did away with the option for catastrophic medical insurance which was an affordable choice for many who are very healthy, younger and/ or lower income, but who have little reserves so would be wiped out financially by a bad accident or sudden life-threatening illness.
Yes one of the highest. My husband is very careful but the risk is always there. Our health insurance and care system is beyond broken. I refuse to use our money to contribute to it. I wish everyone would just stop paying.
Obamacare was designed to inflate healthcare insurance. That was their way to Single payer Medicare for all. Then we'd be paying much more in taxes for less available care. See the NHS in the UK and Canadian healthcare system.
I am really sad and angry to hear of abuse in programs for the autistic - its not fair to those who really need the help. But, I also agree that ABA can be iffy and the diagnosis of autism is being used too liberally. My son is high functioning and we refused ABA because yes its a bit like dog training and the kids become obsessed with the rewards and are not focused on the learning itself. I have also seen the unhealthy bonding occur because the therapist who gives rewards that the parent refuses. So instead, we chose to homeschool full time so I could tailor curriculum to my son's needs. I had a teaching credential, experience, and the vast internet to help me hone the approach. We moved in with relatives in order to live off one income in California while I made raising my son the priority. We had a lot of successes and progress, but it was a hard road with little support. However, even with all that one on one focus, he still needed more than I could provide - he needed exercise classes, occupational therapy, and speech therapy (when echolalia caused him to lose his own and transform into others.) We were not approved for any of that until my son was 9 years old! Plus we never received respite or any kind of home assistance, which when you are with your child 24/7 is necessary. In my group of friends there are 7 autistic kids, which is a lot. We struggle to get our kids the care and support they need with a lack of qualified personnel, open spots, and resources.... so to hear that others are abusing the system to line their pockets with money!? I hope the federal government throws the book at them and makes them pay it back with interest.
I have three girlfriends with profoundly autistic boys, and mine is HF. I am certain my mom didn't have any girlfriends with autistic children when she was my age.
This is incredible and heartbreaking. I cannot even imagine what you’re going through. But I’m royally pissed off that the money is available to help families like yours and because the system is being ripped off you are not getting that help. To top it off, prosecutors are so bogged down with these types of crimes that they are letting this continue. Disgusting.
Vaccines and crappy food are driving autism up and the money is flooding into these fraudulent programs and into big pharma faster than it can be printed. Then of course, it flows back into politician's (primarily democrats, but not exclusively) pockets through lobbyists and campaign contributions. The Pelosi's of the world get richer. Virtually no kids really get helped and we the people get screwed. PEOPLE HAVE TO GO TO JAIL. Idiots like Tampon Tim need to be prosecuted for aiding and abetting just like activist judges who disobey common sense application of the law. And may I add, at some point the fraud is so great that the crime should be considered capital and worthy of removing the scum from wasting good oxygen. I mean how can they ever make up for the damage they've caused, both tangible and intangible. Children who need help aren't getting it, but even then, the help the government is offering is probably ineffective to large degree. So I think most of these programs need to be shut down. At what point did we the people decide that just because there are issues someone has - it's our job to throw money at it. Happy to have schools have some limited programs for these things, but honestly, why do I have to pay for it. Why is the federal government involved at all? Other than, politicians create programs which benefit their contributors so that federal tax dollars wind up getting back into politician's pockets. Sadly it's just so true.
We are causing the autism epidemic with vaccines and then the Healthcare and Social Services industries cash in. We are poisoning our children and then allowing fraud to reap huge rewards. And everyone, particularly those in authority, are either afraid or bribed not to even discuss it.
The penalties should be steep. However, I can just imagine if government shut down these programs. The Dems would demonize the hell out of it and the public would be gaslighted as usual.
This is infuriating on so many levels but for me personally because legitimate care providers who could help my husband with his Parkinson's and Alzheiemer's have discharged him because Medicare has deemed his care to be at an end. I can't even pay privately to get him care because Medicare doesn't allow it. But Medicaid can endlessly pay charlatans for nonexistent services. This is asinine.
This brings up the Q of whether there is even an autism crisis in America as is commonly now claimed. Maybe it's all a hoax to milk the taxpayer. We have to not only investigate all cases of claimed autism, we need to legislate extremely severe penalties for this fraud.
There is profound autism....not difficult to diagnose. Then there is high functioning autism which most people think as "social anxiety." TRUST ME, it is NOT. I have a HF autistic kid (once upon a time called Aspergers) and I guarantee you he cannot live without support (just watch "Love on the Spectrum" and you will see what I'm talking about.) We should be concerned, very concerned. We are fortunate to be able to support him for life BUT not all parents are like us. These kids end up homeless or on disability living sh*t lives. Not to mention the lost productivity. If the rates continue to increase, we might have a real problem with employment. I do not blame vaccines for his autism. I do think it's environmental or perhaps parental age. I was 37 my hubs 39 when we had him. Don't wait to procreate.
Agree, and sorry for your challenges! 🤗 Please don’t believe the studies that “prove vaccines do not cause autism.” They’re as deeply flawed as the ones on the ones touting the dangers of ivermectin. Look at the Amish and other groups that largely do not vaccinate. Read the vaxxed - unvaxxed studies. Censored but not wrong.
Children were immunocompromised at only a 12% rate prior to 1986 when the vaccine schedule exploded after Pharma was granted legal immunity. Today, 54% of children are immunocompromised.
It will be very interesting to see what happens to the rate of autism with the hepatitis B vaccine not being mandated at birth anymore. Following testimony about safety on Capitol Hill in 1999, the vaccine was supposed to be taken off the market to have the mercury removed and then rolled back to be given to 2–6-month-olds. It never was rolled back and there was no explanation. The reasons for mandating it for all newborns to begin with were faulty.
I don’t think autism rates will fall quickly. Hospitals know that parents can’t prove injury, so even without liability protection, they will continue to shame parents into taking it. Now, do more vax/unvaxxed studies and stop the censorship, and we might get somewhere. It’s not only the HepB IMO.
Although…🤞A 2010 study found that boys vaccinated as neonates had 3x higher odds for autism diagnosis compared to boys never vaccinated or vaccinated after the first month of life. Non-white boys bore a greater risk.
Yet in 2017, the AAP, not satisfied with 85% of newborns being vaccinated prior to discharge, issued guidance that HepB vaccine be administered to well newborns with birth weight ≥2000 grams (that’s a 4.4 lb preemie) within 24 hours after birth. They succeeded in increasing the vax rate, but did not appear to do any follow-up to assess the development of autism.
I don’t think your ages had anything to do with it. I was 40 and my husband was 43 when our daughter was born. She is a healthy, productive 34 year old woman. Environmental is most likely the culprit. 🙏
I know studies show an association, but I will argue that it’s metabolic health rather than chronological age. My relatives with significant longevity had kids well into their late 40s with nary an autistic kid to be had. One HF Down’s.
One could APPLY the same logic to many "health related" issues so commonly promoted in narrative by Pharma and the media. CANCER alone...just how much FRAUD is tied to it across the board? How about DEPRESSION or the rapidly evolving weight loss market. Just so many possibilities that are RIPE with and for fraud.
this is exactly what I came here to comment! is autism really exploding? or is it all fraud? I do honestly have my suspicions with a couple of people I've known in the past, mothers who claim some sort of behavioral issue in their kids and govt-sponsored benefits follow!
Unfortunately, the fraudulent have an easier time accessing the system than the truly afflicted. Partly volume so they know how to do the paperwork and partially fraud support from shady providers.
Yeah, there is a lot of reckless commenting in response to a reckless post that, as a parent of a child with profound autism, I find deeply troubling. People have absolutely no clue what being a person with autism or being the caregiver for a person with autism is like. Just no comprehension whatsoever. But that doesn't stop them from having strong opinions about how it's all a hoax and we are just trying to bilk them of their tax dollars. I don't begrudge people their ignorance but it is really discouraging how willing they are, in that ignorance, to condemn all of us to even harder lives than we already live!
I am not referring to people with truly need it, the point is, people intent to defraud somehow find a way to get benefits, while the ones who actually need it, have a hard time such as what you're describing. That's what I call a hoax, and it should absolutely stop.
I don't mean this harshly but it's evident that you don't have much if any experience of autism or the kinds of supports that people with autism need and can receive. The explosive growth in autism isn't a grift that unscrupulous parents are engaged to get -- what exactly? I can't even speculate. Our son is a joy but nothing about his autism has been advantageous for us, and certainly not financially speaking. There are no kickbacks, no perks. It's just a constant unrelenting struggle. None of the kids he goes to school with are just faking autism so their parents can live high on the hog, I promise you.
I'm not explaining this fully, I see this with other programs that on the surface seem to be created to address a specifid need, that's how they get the public to buy into it, but in practice do absolutely nothing. One example I can use is during the mortgage crisis, they were supposedly programs to help people stay in their homes, but there was no way for a normal person to qualify, you either made too much money or not enough. Where do the funds go? Probably just a few at the top collect it so it's all money laundering or something.
I work in pediatric medicine, and have been for years, since the late 80s. Back then it was rare to see a non verbal child with autism in a typical day. Now it’s not unusual to see two daily. There has definitely been an increase, especially among children in lower socioeconomic status, at least from my experience. There is likely more than one cause, including better recognition, but it sure isn’t just genetic. Increased vaccination, things in our food supply that aren’t allowed in other parts of the world are likely at least related, but nobody has seemed interested in figuring this out. I was unaware of the extent of fraud in the Medicaid programs related to autism. That only a high school diploma and a few weeks of training are required to qualify as a therapist should be suspect for any funding. We are constantly hounded about not overcharging and must sign three forms for any medical supplies for Medicaid patients by hand, lest we be charged with fraud, but they’ve allowed these programs to be administered in such a way that they have to pay ? There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark. This abuse of our hard earned money has to stop. It seems we could cut the deficit mightily by upping documentation requirements for these programs, and cutting off funds until you prove services are actually provided. Not even getting into whether or not ABA is helpful. I have a son who is considered HF, he had some ABA components incorporated into three curriculum at his school for children with disabilities, but never did an outside ABA program as there was no funding and his school was expensive enough.
Small ABA provider here - and yes we work hard to and do help hurting families and their loved ones with autism. We are audited by insurance companies several times per year who go over our documentation closely. There is no way we could get away with fraud like this. When we started and were just learning all the requirements some of our early paperwork was deemed inadequate - and we had to repay over 10K to an insurance company. If there is ongoing fraud, someone is looking the other way.
eight years into our journey i would say that ABA is basically dog training and not at all beneficial to kids. best results come from diet and exercise. our oldest basically had no muscle tone at all in his entire body including his eyes & eardrums, so it takes a lot of work to basically target everything.
I wasn't going to say it because I haven't seen the programs in action and didn't want to offend (I know, hard to believe), but in reading their descriptions, dog training is unfortunately what came to mind.
ha, it was a description we were aware of going in, but decided to try anyway - leave no stone unturned and all that.
imho, these places should not receive a single taxpayer's dime even if the kids do exist.
I don't know, my dogs can get beer out of the refrigerator on command and I trained them for free.
I just left a new comment detailing our experience, which is quite a bit different than this. I hope you'll read it.
ABA is great if a person is well-trained. If they are not, it won’t work. And it should not be the only resource used.
I'm self-employed and write out huge checks to the IRS every quarter. My self-employment tax -- which is what goes toward SS/Medicare/Medicaid -- is substantial. This vast and rampant fraud has made me even angrier than I was during COVID. There were a couple of years, more than a decade ago, where I didn't pay enough estimated taxes and do to a variety of things wasn't making as much the next couple of years. The penalties and interest kept adding up and I kept paying, ending up paying far more than what the original tax was. But I did it because I owed the tax. And yet ... there are people, aided and abetting by politicians, scamming the system and getting away with it over and over. Yes, I am super angry.
This is where I am. I'm sick of hearing about all the fraud with no consequence. I feel like a sucker. I feel morally obligated to stop paying taxes however people like me end up in prison when we try to stand up to the 'machine'. It's disgusting.
It's all a scam. Here is the medicare accounting in 2025 for me. This is not complaining just seeing where/how the money goes. I have Kaiser Medicare Advantage, I'm 78, relatively healthy but with some chronic conditions that get high tech drugs. I have a good retirement income from pension, social security and savings generating tax free income. Thus I am penalized and have to pay 742 a month (8910 annually) and it's deducted from my Social security. In 2025 Kaiser billed Medicare 49,937 and collected 36096 (my copay for this was $1499). In other words I paid about 10,409 or over 1/4 of the services, It's all a game.
Wait, Medicare isn't free? (Tongue in cheek.)
Free healthcare for all!!! -- AOC, Bernie and Mamdani
I absolutely detest that social security gets taxed if you have income. I'm an author. I'm going to have royalties hopefully for the rest of my life. I have paid through the nose every year toward social security through the self-employment tax and there's no way I'll see it all (I'm not planning on retiring until I'm 70 and will probably qualify for the maximum SS allowed.) But it will likely be taxed even if I don't make a huge amount in royalties. I don't have a retirement because I had to cash it out to pay the IRS penalties and interest, and it doesn't seem worth it to start one now when I'm 56.
shut up and pay the bill. this isnt about you.
Sarcsam on my part not the part of our moral betters.
I figured. And I paid it. It took years. I really detest scammers, especially when they are getting welfare AND scamming taxpayers.
the important thing to realize is that this is everywhere and crossed all lines. The worlkng are getting scammed by the idle. The worst mistake that can be made is racializing this. its not just Somalis or immigrants. its across the board and not only stealing from taxpayers, its depriving those truly in need.
The real scandal in Minnesota is that no one seems to care that the people were stealing money earmarked for poor kids. We have fallen far.
You're right, and that makes it doubly bad. I'm originally from California and the absolutely fraud and waste in the homeless programs was so frustrating. It's called the homeless industrial complex for a reason. People need help, and the government is throwing money to friends and family and then begging for more and yet the streets are filled with addicts and the mentally ill who are dying. Makes me sad and angry.
My son briefly worked for one of those not for profits. Ending homelessness was not a goal
And voting.
We need DOGE back now and for the spineless republicans to ignore all the whining, blaming and accusing of the democrats why we can’t eliminate all this waste. There is enough evidence to tell the dims to go pound sand! Elon was wrong, the fraud bill is likely to be much higher than one trillion when it’s all added up over all the government programs.
It’s surprising that any tax payer is taking this abuse quietly. In an effort to make sense of it all, working on a collection of articles. There is one paragraph in here you will particularly enjoy…. https://open.substack.com/pub/sueseboda/p/can-we-rediscover-our-cultural-roots?r=87oth&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
You nailed it! “We once were warriors…” You described my sentiments exactly.
How did we get so complacent?! The phrase come from a movie I saw decades ago about Moauri culture that had descended into chaos. It was a hard movie to watch but it has stayed with me. I think of it when taking a look around our culture these days.
Māori culture. Spelled it wrong.
Great article
I'm an employer, and as such have to pay half of all my employees' social security taxes, and both ends of my own. I started collecting my benefits last year, and was outraged to hear that in my state undocumented foreigners as young as 17 were being handed checks and benefits larger than my own, free education and medical care, and given drivers' permits and even licenses without having to prove citizenship, or take road tests. When I discussed this with friends and colleagues some refused to believe it, and I wondered if it was true. Of course the government never officially acknowledged the extent of the abuse. When I spoke with government employees I knew, they confirmed much of what I was observing and said they might lose their jobs if they talked about it, much less dared to go to the media (who wouldn't have been sympathetic anyway). I pray the tide is turning!
I feel your pain. I am so sick of being the world's ATM machine. I have no problem helping people who TEMPORARILY need help. There needs to be some sort of security net, and I'm good with that. But to open the borders and hand out our tax money to the detriment and pain of American citizens? A hard no. Then finding out that so many foreigners are committing massive fraud with the aid of our politicians and bureaucrats? That really makes me angry.
Same here. I spend about $20K just for SS/medicare taxes from 1099 income. I've looked at various options that would save me on the SS/medicare piece. However, I then have to pay keep track of W2, pay unemployment taxes, pay a bit more for CPA come tax time. I can't decide if the extra paper work is worth the savings!
Have you looked into MediShare? I thought they had an option.....Let me know, I will need it in about 9 years. I use MediShare now.
I have a Christian healthshare plan. It's awesome. Is that similar to MediShare?
Yes, I believe so.
And then there are all the complaints about how the US spends more per capita on healthcare than anyone in the world. It’s because of the fraud and abuse that 90% of it occurs. Not to mention subsidizing the world’s drug development.
Not completely related to It’s True’s comment but, it’s just amazing how many people keep saying how evil the Democrats are especially after this shooting in Minnesota. And yet, all people do is just document the evil and then life goes on like it’s acceptable appropriate and unavoidable.
It just amazes me that Democrat filth is totally destroying lives and people think they are immune and sheltered.
Oh well, it’s only a matter of time before this evil touches all equally painfully and terminally. The adage is so true, most Americans stand for nothing and fall for everything.
Wow, perfectly said by Derek Hunter here:
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/01/11/were-in-a-slow-rolling-civil-war-president-trump-needs-to-recognize-it-n2669266
Evil folks, people are going to die as he notes…
Fraud is directly correlated with Democrats and their imported voters from low-trust societies. Now Zohran and Hochul are pushing for "universal healthcare" in New York. That is code word for mass patronage and looting for their voter base. Let a thousand Somali learing centers bloom! Feel the warmth of collectivism: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/zohran-warmth-of-collectivism
Its a formula.
Ds create a patronage system to destroy the country this way:
1. Import millions from shithole countries
2. Devise programs, etc. to support them.
3. Which sets up a gravy train for their allies
4. This creates an environment that invites fraud
5. In turn the people they feign to help are able to fleece the taxpayers
6. When the fraud is uncovered the patrons run for the hills
7. Then redirect the anger to those who point out the fraud
8. Call them racist, etc.
9. Ds get votes to create new programs/NGOs for misuse.
10. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
You can apply the EXACT same formula to these astroturfed demonstrations, rioting and injuring ICE agents, etc.
Its that straightforward.
Every dollar spent on the apprehension and deportation of illegals should be back charged to the DNC.
That's brilliant!
didn't they just declare bankruptcy (or what that the DCCC)? Between being stuck with Kamala's debts, and all this, it's a bit nuts. It's also not coincidental at all that they're financial problems showed up right after USAID was gutted.
These protests are well organized. Participants are trained to obstruct. Signs are made and handed out. None of this happens by chance. You can thank George Soros and Neville Roy Singham, who lives in China, for bankrolling all these "spontaneous" protests. Singham's wife is the founder of Code Pink.
I'm guessing if the curtains were ever completely pulled back we'd find upwards of $1 trillion/yr in fraud just in the medical industrial complex.
I mean the fraud per sq. ft. in Minneapolis is about 10X what the cost is per sq. ft. for real estate in Los Altos, CA or Pacific Palisades.
Imagine two city blocks in your home town having ten or more “learing centers” with no children present.
And interspersed in that two blocks ten or more autism support centers, and like the “learing centers”, the buildings are vacant.
Seems pretty clear to me we're just getting started.
This is DOGE 2.0
If you want to open a daycare here's some help. Oh sorry, it's only for Somali in MN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egg23ASJRQw
Sheeesh
Blue Cross not only makes money on its healthcare plans, it makes money for assisting Somalis in the process of opening a daycare.
And these degenerate Repubs in Congress just go along and always allow added spending. Could probably balance the budget without all the fraud. Mind boggling.
I'm a Republican and have been my entire life -- except for a few years as a libertarian which I did because I was so angry with Republicans for exactly this reason. Too many of them have no backbone to actually do something to stop this BS. (Rand Paul is a welcome exception, among a few others.)
I did that once but found I could not vote in the primary so went back to R.
Yes, five repubs voted to extend the Obamacare subsidy for another 3 years...
actually it was 17....too afraid to do the right thing....
Too worried about being re-elected!
Five Republicans voted with Dems, against Trump on actions in Venezuela without Congressional approval. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Todd Young of Indiana. I hope the voters of Maine vote for another Republican for Senator and rid us of Collins, who should just change her party affiliation to Democrat. Guaranteed that at least 3 of them would vote against Trump on any action he proposed to take in Venezuela.
All must politicians care about is getting re-elected. The country is secondary.
If we stop reelecting people that screw us over perhaps their self interest will start working for us rather than against us.
The NGO issue MUST be addressed too. Musk always said it was by far the most surprising aspect of corruption he was unraveling with DOGE until the swamp neutered him!
Musk is investigating whether Soros was behind the destroying of Tesla Dealerships.
If HE can't figure it out as to WHO no one can! Sometimes I think it is WHY the ORIGINAL DOGE was neutered so much. ELON was just too GOOD and exposing!
Exactly!
It's becoming painfully obvious that a big chunk of the $38.5 trillion in national debt is attributed to outright fraud and stealing of our tax $. It's the biggest transfer of wealth and looting of a people in the history of civilization.
And remember the national DEBT was 15 trillion LESS right before the PLANdemic hit at 23 TRILLION (Feb 1st 2020). Look how much $$$ was PRINTED and doled out across the USA in that PLANdemic under the guise of EMERGENCY giving unelected officials POWER
They destroyed many small businesses. The owners said at the time that they were having a hard time getting covid money. Now we find out that some in Congress got covid money fraudulently. Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster (EIDL), Shuttered Venue Operators Grant , Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF). Guy Fieri and Dave Portnoy both raised money for small business owners because they couldn't get government help.
Have been paying on our EIDL this whole time and payments are still only going to the interest on just a 50k loan. Beyond livid about all this fraud
I don't blame you.
Scott Bessent has been saying the past few days in his opinion there is a REAL possibility after all investigations are complete WE THE PEOPLE will come to realize that there is close to 600 BILLION annually in FRAUD. Elon in the early days of RAW DOGE was stating the same. I think both were not even including what the FRAUD #'s annually are from medicaid abuse!
Elon now says th3 fraud number is much higher. They know.
What infuriates me is that my brother had to pay $3,000 out of pocket for a PET scan after a stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis because his shitty Obama health care wouldn’t cover it. So bureaucrats, scam artists, and others are reaping billions while good people playing by the rules get fucked.
So many of the obama care plans are "shitty" and far more expensive than the insurance they replaced. Many in my extended family that are self employed or work for employers that don't offer medical insuracne simply can't begin to afford the premiums as indivdiaul insurance polices are even higher priced and on top of that, super shitty.
My husband and I our both self employed in our logging business. Can't afford insurance.
Sorry to hear. I know logging is often a high accident risk business. Sadly, Obamacare specifically did away with the option for catastrophic medical insurance which was an affordable choice for many who are very healthy, younger and/ or lower income, but who have little reserves so would be wiped out financially by a bad accident or sudden life-threatening illness.
Yes one of the highest. My husband is very careful but the risk is always there. Our health insurance and care system is beyond broken. I refuse to use our money to contribute to it. I wish everyone would just stop paying.
Obamacare was designed to inflate healthcare insurance. That was their way to Single payer Medicare for all. Then we'd be paying much more in taxes for less available care. See the NHS in the UK and Canadian healthcare system.
I am really sad and angry to hear of abuse in programs for the autistic - its not fair to those who really need the help. But, I also agree that ABA can be iffy and the diagnosis of autism is being used too liberally. My son is high functioning and we refused ABA because yes its a bit like dog training and the kids become obsessed with the rewards and are not focused on the learning itself. I have also seen the unhealthy bonding occur because the therapist who gives rewards that the parent refuses. So instead, we chose to homeschool full time so I could tailor curriculum to my son's needs. I had a teaching credential, experience, and the vast internet to help me hone the approach. We moved in with relatives in order to live off one income in California while I made raising my son the priority. We had a lot of successes and progress, but it was a hard road with little support. However, even with all that one on one focus, he still needed more than I could provide - he needed exercise classes, occupational therapy, and speech therapy (when echolalia caused him to lose his own and transform into others.) We were not approved for any of that until my son was 9 years old! Plus we never received respite or any kind of home assistance, which when you are with your child 24/7 is necessary. In my group of friends there are 7 autistic kids, which is a lot. We struggle to get our kids the care and support they need with a lack of qualified personnel, open spots, and resources.... so to hear that others are abusing the system to line their pockets with money!? I hope the federal government throws the book at them and makes them pay it back with interest.
I have three girlfriends with profoundly autistic boys, and mine is HF. I am certain my mom didn't have any girlfriends with autistic children when she was my age.
That is A LOT of AUTISTIC in one small group of friends wow!
This is incredible and heartbreaking. I cannot even imagine what you’re going through. But I’m royally pissed off that the money is available to help families like yours and because the system is being ripped off you are not getting that help. To top it off, prosecutors are so bogged down with these types of crimes that they are letting this continue. Disgusting.
Most people said DOGE was a failure, but I think it set the stage for DOGE 2.0.
doge 2: electric boogaloo
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38 trillion of debt. 100% of it is either outright fraud, or stuff the govt should not be spending money on anyway.
The entire thing is a scam.
Vaccines and crappy food are driving autism up and the money is flooding into these fraudulent programs and into big pharma faster than it can be printed. Then of course, it flows back into politician's (primarily democrats, but not exclusively) pockets through lobbyists and campaign contributions. The Pelosi's of the world get richer. Virtually no kids really get helped and we the people get screwed. PEOPLE HAVE TO GO TO JAIL. Idiots like Tampon Tim need to be prosecuted for aiding and abetting just like activist judges who disobey common sense application of the law. And may I add, at some point the fraud is so great that the crime should be considered capital and worthy of removing the scum from wasting good oxygen. I mean how can they ever make up for the damage they've caused, both tangible and intangible. Children who need help aren't getting it, but even then, the help the government is offering is probably ineffective to large degree. So I think most of these programs need to be shut down. At what point did we the people decide that just because there are issues someone has - it's our job to throw money at it. Happy to have schools have some limited programs for these things, but honestly, why do I have to pay for it. Why is the federal government involved at all? Other than, politicians create programs which benefit their contributors so that federal tax dollars wind up getting back into politician's pockets. Sadly it's just so true.
Your first comment is exactly right!
We are causing the autism epidemic with vaccines and then the Healthcare and Social Services industries cash in. We are poisoning our children and then allowing fraud to reap huge rewards. And everyone, particularly those in authority, are either afraid or bribed not to even discuss it.
The penalties should be steep. However, I can just imagine if government shut down these programs. The Dems would demonize the hell out of it and the public would be gaslighted as usual.
This is infuriating on so many levels but for me personally because legitimate care providers who could help my husband with his Parkinson's and Alzheiemer's have discharged him because Medicare has deemed his care to be at an end. I can't even pay privately to get him care because Medicare doesn't allow it. But Medicaid can endlessly pay charlatans for nonexistent services. This is asinine.
This brings up the Q of whether there is even an autism crisis in America as is commonly now claimed. Maybe it's all a hoax to milk the taxpayer. We have to not only investigate all cases of claimed autism, we need to legislate extremely severe penalties for this fraud.
There is profound autism....not difficult to diagnose. Then there is high functioning autism which most people think as "social anxiety." TRUST ME, it is NOT. I have a HF autistic kid (once upon a time called Aspergers) and I guarantee you he cannot live without support (just watch "Love on the Spectrum" and you will see what I'm talking about.) We should be concerned, very concerned. We are fortunate to be able to support him for life BUT not all parents are like us. These kids end up homeless or on disability living sh*t lives. Not to mention the lost productivity. If the rates continue to increase, we might have a real problem with employment. I do not blame vaccines for his autism. I do think it's environmental or perhaps parental age. I was 37 my hubs 39 when we had him. Don't wait to procreate.
Agree, and sorry for your challenges! 🤗 Please don’t believe the studies that “prove vaccines do not cause autism.” They’re as deeply flawed as the ones on the ones touting the dangers of ivermectin. Look at the Amish and other groups that largely do not vaccinate. Read the vaxxed - unvaxxed studies. Censored but not wrong.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7709050/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7268563/
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=136921
https://www.aninconvenientstudy.com/
https://open.substack.com/pub/drwojakmd/p/unvaccinated-children-are-healthier?r=8yuuy&utm_medium=ios
Children were immunocompromised at only a 12% rate prior to 1986 when the vaccine schedule exploded after Pharma was granted legal immunity. Today, 54% of children are immunocompromised.
https://ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/125
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7268563/
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/no_author/the-greatest-health-revolution/
It will be very interesting to see what happens to the rate of autism with the hepatitis B vaccine not being mandated at birth anymore. Following testimony about safety on Capitol Hill in 1999, the vaccine was supposed to be taken off the market to have the mercury removed and then rolled back to be given to 2–6-month-olds. It never was rolled back and there was no explanation. The reasons for mandating it for all newborns to begin with were faulty.
I don’t think autism rates will fall quickly. Hospitals know that parents can’t prove injury, so even without liability protection, they will continue to shame parents into taking it. Now, do more vax/unvaxxed studies and stop the censorship, and we might get somewhere. It’s not only the HepB IMO.
Although…🤞A 2010 study found that boys vaccinated as neonates had 3x higher odds for autism diagnosis compared to boys never vaccinated or vaccinated after the first month of life. Non-white boys bore a greater risk.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21058170/
Yet in 2017, the AAP, not satisfied with 85% of newborns being vaccinated prior to discharge, issued guidance that HepB vaccine be administered to well newborns with birth weight ≥2000 grams (that’s a 4.4 lb preemie) within 24 hours after birth. They succeeded in increasing the vax rate, but did not appear to do any follow-up to assess the development of autism.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9843611/
I don’t think your ages had anything to do with it. I was 40 and my husband was 43 when our daughter was born. She is a healthy, productive 34 year old woman. Environmental is most likely the culprit. 🙏
Paternal age is a risk factor. https://www.stepaheadaba.com/blog/do-older-fathers-cause-autism
I had my kids at 36 and 44, no issues, but I agree with you, people shouldn't wait so long.
Not every person who has a kid over 40 is going to have an autistic kid. Chances increase just like Down’s.
A couple hundred years ago, most people were still having kids at that age.
…and autism nearly unheard of…
Few not most. Most had them very young.
Most people didn't use birth control. So they were still having kids at that age even though they started younger.
Your point? That age is not a risk factor? Well, studies prove otherwise.
I know studies show an association, but I will argue that it’s metabolic health rather than chronological age. My relatives with significant longevity had kids well into their late 40s with nary an autistic kid to be had. One HF Down’s.
You haven’t met my relatives… 😁
One could APPLY the same logic to many "health related" issues so commonly promoted in narrative by Pharma and the media. CANCER alone...just how much FRAUD is tied to it across the board? How about DEPRESSION or the rapidly evolving weight loss market. Just so many possibilities that are RIPE with and for fraud.
this is exactly what I came here to comment! is autism really exploding? or is it all fraud? I do honestly have my suspicions with a couple of people I've known in the past, mothers who claim some sort of behavioral issue in their kids and govt-sponsored benefits follow!
If you think it’s that easy to get benefits, you’re sadly mistaken.
Unfortunately, the fraudulent have an easier time accessing the system than the truly afflicted. Partly volume so they know how to do the paperwork and partially fraud support from shady providers.
Yeah, there is a lot of reckless commenting in response to a reckless post that, as a parent of a child with profound autism, I find deeply troubling. People have absolutely no clue what being a person with autism or being the caregiver for a person with autism is like. Just no comprehension whatsoever. But that doesn't stop them from having strong opinions about how it's all a hoax and we are just trying to bilk them of their tax dollars. I don't begrudge people their ignorance but it is really discouraging how willing they are, in that ignorance, to condemn all of us to even harder lives than we already live!
I am not referring to people with truly need it, the point is, people intent to defraud somehow find a way to get benefits, while the ones who actually need it, have a hard time such as what you're describing. That's what I call a hoax, and it should absolutely stop.
I don't mean this harshly but it's evident that you don't have much if any experience of autism or the kinds of supports that people with autism need and can receive. The explosive growth in autism isn't a grift that unscrupulous parents are engaged to get -- what exactly? I can't even speculate. Our son is a joy but nothing about his autism has been advantageous for us, and certainly not financially speaking. There are no kickbacks, no perks. It's just a constant unrelenting struggle. None of the kids he goes to school with are just faking autism so their parents can live high on the hog, I promise you.
Once again, I'm not directing this to people who truly need it. But it's ok, just ignore my comment if it bothers you so much.
I'm not explaining this fully, I see this with other programs that on the surface seem to be created to address a specifid need, that's how they get the public to buy into it, but in practice do absolutely nothing. One example I can use is during the mortgage crisis, they were supposedly programs to help people stay in their homes, but there was no way for a normal person to qualify, you either made too much money or not enough. Where do the funds go? Probably just a few at the top collect it so it's all money laundering or something.
I work in pediatric medicine, and have been for years, since the late 80s. Back then it was rare to see a non verbal child with autism in a typical day. Now it’s not unusual to see two daily. There has definitely been an increase, especially among children in lower socioeconomic status, at least from my experience. There is likely more than one cause, including better recognition, but it sure isn’t just genetic. Increased vaccination, things in our food supply that aren’t allowed in other parts of the world are likely at least related, but nobody has seemed interested in figuring this out. I was unaware of the extent of fraud in the Medicaid programs related to autism. That only a high school diploma and a few weeks of training are required to qualify as a therapist should be suspect for any funding. We are constantly hounded about not overcharging and must sign three forms for any medical supplies for Medicaid patients by hand, lest we be charged with fraud, but they’ve allowed these programs to be administered in such a way that they have to pay ? There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark. This abuse of our hard earned money has to stop. It seems we could cut the deficit mightily by upping documentation requirements for these programs, and cutting off funds until you prove services are actually provided. Not even getting into whether or not ABA is helpful. I have a son who is considered HF, he had some ABA components incorporated into three curriculum at his school for children with disabilities, but never did an outside ABA program as there was no funding and his school was expensive enough.
Small ABA provider here - and yes we work hard to and do help hurting families and their loved ones with autism. We are audited by insurance companies several times per year who go over our documentation closely. There is no way we could get away with fraud like this. When we started and were just learning all the requirements some of our early paperwork was deemed inadequate - and we had to repay over 10K to an insurance company. If there is ongoing fraud, someone is looking the other way.