Dr. Mehmet Oz

Now that would imply a very high death rate in LA.

And no matter what we might say about Los Angeles, that's not the truth.

And so if you have one third of all of the hospices taking care of people at the end of their life with dignity in one city, then we would have to assume most of those folks are fraudulent.

In fact, half of the people in Los Angeles, the hospice centers, we do think are fraudulent and we have stopped paying almost half of them already

And here's the craziness of all this thing.

800 of these hospices we've stopped paying, we've had maybe two dozen complain.

So most of these guys say, all right, the gig's up.

You know, they came looking for me.

And we know one day we'd be out of business.

We're going to go defraud somebody else.

But the fact that that could have occurred under the watch of Gavin Newsom, even though he was warned

four years ago by the state auditor general that there was widespread fraud and really just did performative things to pretend he was dealing with the crisis, why should the federal government have to come in and clean up the mess?

Well, unfortunately, it's federal dollars they're spending.

So literally, New Mexico, another blue state, and Mississippi, a red state, their tax bills are higher

Because those folks who don't have the income of people in California are paying extra federal taxes so we can transfer it right to Los Angeles, where the unmitigated disaster of fraud, not just in hospice, but in other programs exists.

Let me give you a third example, and then we can come to the why question, which is always the most important one.

New York City, New York State, these are big, prosperous areas.

The number one job growth, in fact, the number one job of all,

in New York State is a personal care service attendant.

Now, what does that mean?