Tim Rice

As the vice president said, those numbers, they defy logic.

The other big state, again, unsurprisingly, across the country is California.

Interestingly, Dr. Oz, who was also there at the press conference, as I mentioned, he noted that one third of all hospice providers in the United States are located in the Los Angeles area.

not California, Los Angeles.

He said that CMS has estimated that about half of those hospice providers in the LA area are fraudulent, that they've recently shut down 800 of those clinics.

And perhaps as a sign that these people were really just running a grift as long as they could, of those 800, he said only 20 appealed the decision.

The other 780 just said, all right, and went home.

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So can you break down this case for us?

What exactly happened in Arcadia?

Well, I was going to ask you about that.