00:00Are you shocked about how this has gone unnoticed for so long?
00:04Well, the question you should be asking yourself, is this a flaw of the system or is it a feature
00:09of the system?
00:11Is there a reason why maybe you don't want to take this seriously?
00:14Were there problems with going after it?
00:16And I think what we're seeing today, although there are doctors involved in this process,
00:21was sort of the middle-level management.
00:23They're the people on top of these guys, the people who own the buildings that they have offices in.
00:27The folks that get the money, the puppeteers who actually are controlling all the moving parts.
00:32Because as a doctor, I would never put my name on a hospice and lie about someone who had terminal
00:37illness
00:38because one day, eventually, someone will come after me.
00:40I want to know who else is supporting these guys behind the scenes.
00:44And again, I'm going to point out a very fundamental reality.
00:46There was a rule, a code change that was coming out on January 1st of this year,
00:51and something happened on December 19th, and it's gone.
00:55And you said today you've suspended 100-plus hospice licenses?
00:59Wow.
01:00That was based on kind of what you're seeing going through the data and realizing, wow, red flag, red flag,
01:04red flag.
01:04Hundreds.
01:05Hundreds.
01:06Yes.
01:06We'll denounce the number at the press conference.
01:09But in 10 weeks, we're getting close to what Governor Newsom did in four years.
01:16Wow.
01:16So it can be done.
01:18The question is, is there a will?
01:19And when I talk to folks in my agency, they say, we were told to stand down.
01:23People didn't want to talk about it.
01:25Certainly folks here in California, I mean, where's the California law enforcement?
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