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Hospice fraud victimizes seniors, but Gavin Newsom’s no help

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California hospice fraud is not just fleecing taxpayers.

It’s stealing the health of senior citizens.

Which raises a question: Which group did Sacramento recently act to protect?

The seniors? Or the fraudsters?

Consider the plight of Linda Henry, 71, of Long Beach. 

As The California Post and other media recently reported, fraudsters enrolled her in hospice care without her knowledge, effectively cutting off her Medicare coverage: Why cover, say, allergy testing for a person on the brink of death?

The mess took months to sort out before Medicare conceded the senior had been victimized. 

Henry’s experience underscores that hospice fraud is not a remote, abstract or victimless crime.

It hurts countless victims like her, all part of a California fraud albatross the feds estimate at $3.5 billion in LA County alone.

Those billions were collected from hard-working taxpayers –– only to be squandered on fraud.

One would think the state’s governor and........

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