More Massive Blue State Fraud, as California Hospice Scandal Unfolds
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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First, they applaud CBS for reporting on hundreds of millions of dollars lost to hospice fraud, with a surprisingly large share occurring in Los Angeles County. Greg explains how the scheme harms its unwitting victims, while Scot praises CBS for pursuing the story and questions why more mainstream media outlets are not consistently investigating allegations of fraud like this.
Next, they’re stunned as CNN stumbles into a third retraction and apology in less than two days over the attempted terrorist attack in New York City on Saturday. Just hours after anchor Abby Phillip apologized for falsely reporting that NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani was the target, another reporter repeated the same claim. Scot and Greg also react to a CNN commentator badly botching the Pentagon steak and lobster story.
Finally, they weigh in on lawmakers in Michigan considering a mileage tax on electric semi-trailers and haulers to make up for lost gas tax revenue. While they strongly oppose government mandates pushing electric vehicles, Scot and Greg vehemently reject the idea of the government monitoring vehicles to impose a new tax or for any other purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.4 | Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.2 | So glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:16.4 | Jim Garrity is away today here in his place. |
| 0:18.3 | Scott Bertram, general manager, WRFH, Radio Free Hillsdale, |
| 0:21.9 | 101.7 on your dial in the Hillsdale area. Also lectures at Hillsdale and journalism, |
| 0:27.4 | directs the college's podcast network and hosts among many others in the network, |
| 0:31.3 | the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. Scott, great to have you with us again. |
| 0:34.7 | Thank you, Greg. Good to be here. Yeah, don't check 101.7 in your local area. |
| 0:38.5 | It only works in Hillsdale. Sorry. Yes, exactly. Well, let's get to our first martini. This is good in the sense that it's being covered, bad in the sense that this fraud is going on. But given what we've seen in Minnesota and other states, I don't think anybody's too shocked by it. people who carefully follow government programs in California, say if you think Minnesota is bad, obviously a much bigger state, spending a lot more money in California. This is going to be happening. And actually, Dr. Oz said a few weeks ago, now, I think it's late January, that there was major hospice fraud going on in California, specifically Southern California, |
| 1:12.2 | specifically L.A. County. And that's exactly what CBS was following up on. Correspondent Adam Yamaguchi |
| 1:17.7 | filed a more formal report for CBS Evening News. This was his online report, at least part of it, |
| 1:23.1 | as he explains the story of a woman who was supposedly on hospice, but is obviously very, very healthy, kind of the tip of the spear of this problem. |
| 1:31.3 | The government thinks this woman is dying in hospice care, |
| 1:36.0 | but she just humiliated me, schooled me on the pickleball court. |
| 1:40.9 | She's definitely not dying. |
| 1:43.1 | She is a victim, though, of hospice fraud. |
| 1:46.6 | So hospice fraud costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year. And California is |
| 1:52.0 | ground zero. So basically, people steal Medicare numbers. They enroll them in hospices and then bill |
| 1:57.8 | for tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars. A lot of these companies are |
| 2:02.7 | just fronts. So over 700 of the roughly 1,800 hospices in L.A. County triggered multiple red flags |
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