{"id":63707,"date":"2026-04-27T11:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63707"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:53:20","slug":"how-do-you-put-a-hospice-in-a-taco-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63707","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Put A Hospice In A Taco Stand?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you put a hospice in a taco stand or a tire store? That is the question being asked in a post by The Daily Signal<\/a> on Sunday. Evidently the authorities in California were so lax in checking Medicare money handed out to supposed hospice facilities that some of them were located in very strange places.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has halted payments to more than 400 hospices in Los Angeles and across California, with the estimated fraud being greater than $600 million, according to the anti-fraud task forceopens in a new tab<\/span><\/a> led by Vice President JD Vance.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sheila Clark, CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association, is questioning how these alleged instances of fraud have slipped through the cracks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHow do you put a hospice in a burrito stand in California? How do you put a hospice in a tire store? That all had to be vetted through licensure, certification, and accreditation,\u201d Clark said during a House of Representatives hearing on April 21.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

In an interview with Fox Newsopens in a new tab<\/span><\/a>, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli called California \u201cthe kingdom of fraud.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNobody is minding the shop. The money just goes out the door\u2014no checking, no vetting. California has a responsibility to make sure the money is going to the intended recipients.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reported that $6,000 was being paid out by the government for hospice patients that allegedly did not exist.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have not gotten one call from a congressperson or a patient. Why? Because those hospices did not exist. They were signing up patients \u2026 and charging us $6,000 a month for that patient.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am hoping that as we clear out the fraudulent spending by the government we can continue to decrease the tax burden on Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you put a hospice in a taco stand or a tire store? That is the question being asked in a post by The Daily Signal on Sunday. Evidently the authorities in California were so lax in checking Medicare … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19351,30,19436,2195,19435,3970,10397,17773],"class_list":["post-63707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-fraud-task-force","tag-california","tag-california-hospice-and-palliative-care-association","tag-centers-for-medicare-and-medicaid-services","tag-hospices","tag-los-angeles","tag-the-daily-signal","tag-vice-president-jd-vance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63708,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63707\/revisions\/63708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}