California’s 27th Congressional District, encompassing the hardworking communities of the Santa Clarita Valley, Antelope Valley, and San Fernando valley (well, at least what Proposition 50 didn’t split up for partisan purposes) has been a place of growth, aerospace advancements and real opportunity.  

Families choose these valleys and high deserts for affordable homes, strong schools, aerospace and logistics jobs, and a sense of security. 

But, Washington and Sacramento continue to impose policies that strain those dreams through inefficiency, waste and misplaced priorities. Perhaps even worse, though, is the continual dismissal of fraud impacts on safety nets, and the glorification of increasing taxes in the name of compassion and partisan gameplay.

Federal and state authorities have uncovered massive fraud in Southern California’s hospice and home health sector, with schemes in Los Angeles County alone involving hundreds of millions of dollars in improper Medicare and Medi-Cal billing. 

Sham operations allegedly enrolled non-terminal patients, billed for services never provided, and exploited vulnerabilities in the system. The California State Auditor report alerted officials to this exploitive growth over four years ago, and the results have been the continued pilfering of tax dollars meant to help those who need it most.

This isn’t........

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