There’s a company in Donald Trump’s financial disclosure called Chemed. You’ve never heard of it. Here’s what it does.
Chemed owns VITAS, the largest for-profit hospice chain in America. Hospice: end-of-life care for the dying.
In 2017, VITAS paid the U.S. government $75 million to settle claims it enrolled patients who weren’t terminally ill into hospice, and billed Medicare for aggressive “crisis care” those patients didn’t need.
Federal prosecutors said the company set aggressive admissions targets and paid bonuses tied to them.
Translation: accused of putting people who weren’t dying into death care, to bill the taxpayer.
The President of the United States owns a piece of it, while his administration runs Medicare, which pays the bills, and the DOJ, which prosecutes the fraud.
Hang on. I’m sorry, WHAT!?
I.C.E. is creating recruitment commercials for Seattle PD to “stand down” and “uphold your oath” blahblahblah?? Pure propaganda machine. GTFO of our state. #YoureGross
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@StarlingZain Agreed. And there’s a shark attacking him from the front simultaneous to that back leg attack in the end. That’s why in the stills and slomos of this last attack, he is pulled down into the water and completely disappears in those last shots we see. It’s not the fkn current. 🤦🏼♀️
@StevesLoveTarot JFC, Steve, your Mercury in Scorpio Extended is saving my ass today. I’m only 4min in and you brought up how it feels like being on a game show. I said to myself aloud “as long as it’s not “The Dating Game” with Rodney Alcala, and you immediately chided me. 🤣☠️
@MST3K@RiffTrax, I’m sitting in my local bar in Olympia WA and there is a very deep discussion being had about how Peter Jackson’s “Meet The Feebles” needs to be addressed by your comedic talents… and quite frankly hearing about it for the first time, I’m horrified.
@StevesLoveTarot I saw three birds swoop down very precariously and land in the road in front of my car today as I was driving at about 6am & the first thing that popped in my head was “THREE OF SWORDS!” No idea why at the time but now it seems significant! The Friday Reading! ❤️
The residents of Laurel Canyon are currently filling the canyon with David Crosby songs played at top volume in a tribute to the fallen musician—Crosby, Stills & Nash sang together for the first time at the L. Canyon home of Mama Cass Elliot.
Pamela Colman Smith was the first to create images for every tarot card in the Minor Arcana. 🌞🗡🌹 Discover these colorfully illustrated cards, on view now at the Whitney, with curator Barbara Haskell.
Floridians treat "mandatory" evacuations as casual suggestions bc we call hurricanes names like Ian. Call them by names like "Death Worm 2022," or "Wombat Dragon MegaSlayer" and I guarantee even Floridians will evacuate. 🤣🤣🤣
Just when you healed your trauma upon learning of Thomas Edison and Topsy the elephant; Ladies & Gents, I give to you ELON MUSK!!! “The Jeffery Dahmer of Modern Invention!!” https://t.co/za2Wfpz36J
If this investigation uncovered nothing more than Trump saying “Mike Pence deserves it” it would be one of the most stunning investigations in history. But they have much, much more.