WEBVTT - The latest MediCAL fraud involves Taxi Cabs 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.160 And very Happy Friday to you at twelve oh seven. 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:06.960 In the West, it's the Giant Phillip Show, Mister Randy 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:08.280 Wings in Culver City. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:12.600 Well, John, despite all the hype, hotel bookings for the 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:19.079 World Cup in Los Angeles are way below expectations. No, 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.479 would you want to come here to watch soccer? And 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:27.120 it's only eight games. The whole concept of having the 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.920 World Cup in the entire continent of North America, where 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.360 some games are being played in Mexico, some games are 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.360 being played in Canada, and some games are being played 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.520 in La San Jose, some games are being played in Kansas. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.960 It is so spread out. How exactly are soccer fans 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:44.120 supposed to enjoy that? 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.159 Well, my guess is if they do, they're going to 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:53.200 be executive platinum but American Airlines by the time they're done. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.200 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.720 jellphone number one? Eight hundred two two two five two 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.560 two two. Well, a lot of you have been emailing 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.640 us over at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.760 That's Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com asking 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.280 to take a peek at my ballot. And this is 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.319 something we do every cycle here where people want to 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:22.480 know how I'm voting on any particular race or proposition, 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.600 that sort of thing, and we put it up on 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.000 the website over at KBC dot com, over at KSFO, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.320 and it is going to be up my ballot this cycle, 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:37.039 this primary will be up by the end of the 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:41.840 show today. Now, I am not suggesting that you vote 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:45.040 exactly the same way that I do. I'm not telling 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.200 you which way to vote one way or the other. 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.600 I'm just letting you know how I voted in case 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.200 you would like to know, because that's a regular question 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.960 that we get asked. So if you're curious how I'm 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.880 voting for governor or lieutenant governor or state superintendent of 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.840 public instruction. I even got down to some of the 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.480 county and the city initiatives, those sorts of things. That's 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.200 going to be up and live on the website by 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:15.560 the time we sign off today at three PM. I'm 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.760 going to be on vacation next week and Randy will 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:23.840 be hosting the program solo. When I get back from vacation, 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.720 We're going to go through the ballot on the air, 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.000 and I'm going to tell you just exactly why I'm 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.880 voting the way I'm voting on all of the various 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.919 races and propositions. So that'll be week after next when 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:37.160 I'm back from vacation. 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.400 You know, just with your luck, you're going to come 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.880 back for vacation and somebody that you said you're voting 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:43.040 for is going to drop out. 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:49.560 Oh, one hundred percent. Whenever I go on vacation, that's 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:50.840 when all hell breaks loose. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.399 By the way, you understand that you're going on vacation 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.120 with the three and a half weeks left before the 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.920 election season is over. So if there really is another 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.160 Katie Porter video out there, it's coming out when you're 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:05.640 not here. 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:07.800 Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:08.519 Oh. 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.840 In addition to that, Canada is going to declare war 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:17.720 in Iceland. That's the way it works, all right. So 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.800 that's all the housekeeping items I have for you today, 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.320 and right now it's time to move on to the 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.840 top story, where we've been uncovering a lot of waste, 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.480 fraud and abuse. Originally, we found out about it in 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:34.560 Minnesota with the various schools and daycare centers. Then attention 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:39.360 shifted to California, San Fernando Valley when we learned about 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.480 the hospice centers that we're all located in one building, 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.840 in one neighborhood, and it just so happens it's pretty 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:48.560 much right next to. 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:49.480 Where Randy lives. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.760 Well, now, Randy, we have a third to add to 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.640 the list, and this time it involves the Bay Area. 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.720 All right, this one is wild, But NBC Bay Area 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:05.040 put out a massive story. They've been investigating this for 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:09.000 months and months and months about a type of medical 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:15.840 fraud that is insane. Apparently, one of the things that 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.320 you can do when you qualify for medical is your 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:23.000 low income and it will pay for your treatment. But John, 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.120 it doesn't just pay for your treatment. Medical will also 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:30.320 pay for your transportation to and from your treatment. That 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:34.280 has led to a whole bunch of crooked taxi drivers 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:39.480 paying people twenty dollars to go on one hundred mile 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.039 trips to a treatment center, way out of their way, 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.200 way out of the way of their neighborhood. Because the 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:52.160 taxis are getting reimbursed by medical. Now it's the taxi 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.040 drivers that are scamming the government. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:05:00.200 Yes, this is a wild story. It is a huge story. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.400 I have it posted on my substack if you want 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.400 to watch it and share it Randy Wangradio dot substack 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.640 dot com. But we're going to play the entire twelve 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:14.480 minute piece because it is fascinating. Archie Bunker, I thought 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:18.839 I knew you. For more, Here's NBC in the Bay. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:23.000 Tonight we uncover allegations of fraud in the Silicon Valley. 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.440 This involves taxpayers, money, and low income Californians. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.719 After a year of digging, Senior investigator reporter Bagad Shaban 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.440 has our story that is already getting the attention of 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:33.919 government investigators. 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:41.360 It's barely sunrise and this steady stream of taxi cabs 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.760 might make you think this is an airport or some 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:48.520 popular tourist attraction, but it's neither. Here comes one. For months, 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:52.920 our investigative unit watched undercover. Which one is this as taxi? 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.120 Here's one after taxi? 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:56.280 Here comes another. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:57.160 One rolled in. 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:58.680 Did you get the car number one? 0:05:58.800 --> 0:05:59.400 Nine to nine? 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.480 So what exactly is going on here? Well you should 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:08.000 know since millions of your tax dollars are paying for it. 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.560 I'm we're paying for tax these people. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.000 I would love to know what the tax rate would 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.400 actually be if the stady California wasn't scammed. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.080 Right and left imke what. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:26.479 Our story starts with Jan Garcia, a whistleblower accusing some 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:31.039 of defrauding the government, cheating taxpayers, and exploiting some of 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:36.080 California's most vulnerable. He filed a complaint with government investigators, 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:40.080 but before he spoke with them, he sat down with us. 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:45.000 Smart you go to the local news first. 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:47.920 You go to the place where you know the story 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.480 is going to get told, because there are certain government 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:57.520 investigators wink wink, Bob Bantata that don't really care about this. 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:02.240 No, and if the people do in the scamming campaign contributors, 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.359 guess who he's gonna look out for. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.200 First, think Kivili is like, what the hell. 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:12.520 His concerns have to do with medical California's version of Medicaid, 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.679 which provides free health services to low income adults and children. 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:21.520 The program also offers free transportation to get that medical treatment. 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:26.480 And that doesn't mean the bus Nope. And that's where 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.480 the taxis come in. The cab drivers charge by the 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.840 mile through medical to take patients to their medical appointments. 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.239 So the farther they drive, the more money they get. 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.000 That is a scam ola right there. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.600 I wonder if they had any medical treatments in Tijuana. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:51.200 Well, that whistleblower complaint accuses cavvies of paying recovering drug 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.560 users if they agree to get their drug treatment at 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.560 a clinic much farther away in a different county. 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:07.200 Like one hundred miles away, seems convenient. So there are 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.520 people who are getting paid to get picked up and 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:15.120 go to their appointment two counties from where they actually live. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:22.360 Because the taxicab drivers are getting paid by the mile 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:27.280 by medical And of course there's nobody at medical looking 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.720 at these one hundred mile taxi rides and thinking there's 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.360 something strange going on here. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.720 Sounds like they figured it out. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.160 And then let the cabby become their regular driver, who 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.800 can then bill all of that additional mileage to medical. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.520 The money's disappearing and it's not being used for medical. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.120 We spoke with three different patients who told us their 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:53.640 taxi drivers repeatedly gave them cash payments to take almost 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.199 daily trips to one specific clinic. 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.880 I'm not taking twenty dollars to sit in the back 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:01.800 of a taxi for two hours. 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.080 Well, what do you think the odds are some of 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:05.480 that money went for drugs? 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.160 There is that the Bark Program Center in Menlo Park, 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.000 which in some cases is ten times farther than other 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.800 similar facilities. The Bart Clinic is actually one of four 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:22.040 drug treatment clinics approved for Santa Clara County medical patients. 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.120 Notice how they're saying drug treatment and not drug rehab. 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.440 What is this? A method owned clinic. 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:32.360 Could be drug treatment clinics approved for Santa Clara County 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:36.080 medical patients, but it's the privately owned Bar clinic, the 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.400 only one not run by the county and the only 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.800 one located outside the county that's getting the vast majority 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.679 of taxpayer funded rides. In just the final three months 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.400 of last year, medical funds paid for more than twenty 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:54.880 four thousand trips across all four clinics, but ninety two 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.520 percent of those rides were to and from the Bark Clinic. 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.320 You know what this reminds me of. It reminds me 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.440 of what Elon Musk had to say about Doge and 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:10.600 why Doze didn't work. Because when you look at something 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.560 like this and you go, Okay, this is obvious fraud. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.000 We have to cut this from the budget. It's not 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.480 as if the people who are scamming the system are 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.800 just going to take it on the chin. They're going 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.640 to scream, and they're gonna yell, and they're going to say, 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:29.280 this treatment is working, and you are cutting a successful 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:33.320 program that is helping drug addicts kick their habit. And 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.440 by cutting this, you're going to end up with more 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.120 people living on the streets and the encampments are going 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.800 to get bigger. How dare you cut a valuable program 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:42.199 like this? 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.200 Well, and you know what, it reminds me of. One 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.560 of the reasons that California became the hot bed for 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.280 all of the drug addicts is our lacks drug laws. 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.520 But one of the other reasons is specifically medicale. When 0:10:56.559 --> 0:11:00.440 we expanded medicaid to anybody who is low in that 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:05.040 steps on California soil qualifying for thirty days of rehab. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.520 You add all of these private rehab centers in Orange 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:14.240 County and Malibu advertising on late night TV in Ohio saying, Hey, 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.760 you want to kick your heroin habit by petting a 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.120 horse in Malibu, We'll fly you out here, you get 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.559 thirty days of rehab, and then they kick you out 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:23.160 on the street. 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.520 I really do believe they could cut the taxes in 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.600 half if we got rid of the waste, fraud, and abiose. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.120 While there are plenty of legitimate reasons patients might prefer 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.640 a certain medical center, the high traffic at the bart 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:40.640 facility is raising questions. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.880 It's always that clinic. Why does it have to be 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:43.480 that clinic. 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:45.400 It doesn't make sense to you. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.559 No, Garcia doesn't. 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.040 Work for medical and he's not a cab driver, But 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.480 in his whistleblower complaint, he said he knows of two 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.920 other passengers who have been taking those taxis roughly one 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:01.920 hundred miles round trip per day to that very same clinic, 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:06.199 even though they live within five miles of another treatment center. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:12.640 Of course, he's even followed them several times and recorded 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.440 one of those trips, and his complaint to investigators, Garcia 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.320 says those two passengers told him their cab driver was 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.800 paying them to take the longer rides. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:24.240 He gives them toy it all the day. 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:28.960 Each person seems kind of low, but if you're an 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.679 unemployed drug addict, twenty dollars a day, that buys you 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:36.280 some meth. Well, and it's not as if you have 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.560 another taxi right there where you can go. Okay, this 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.480 one's willing to give me twenty will you give me 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.800 fifty or how about one hundred and negotiate that way. 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.600 One of those passengers did confirm with us they do 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.520 take those one hundred mile taxi trips, but denied accepting 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:52.800 payments from his driver. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.000 We know you're getting the money. Otherwise, why would you 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.439 do that? Who would voluntarily sit in the back of 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.200 a cab for an hour? No. 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.200 The only time I would ever consider doing that is 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:09.000 for a dentist, because finding a good dentist is so difficult. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:13.319 If you have one the trust and you like, then 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.320 I would be willing and I am willing to drive 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.400 one hundred miles to go see that person. But for 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.000 something like this, you just take whatever's closest to your house. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.440 Is this the revenge that the cabbies are putting on 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.319 us because everyone prefers Lyft and uber and Weimo. 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.120 You know, I was just thinking about that recently. How 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.439 do they stay in business because it's so much easier 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.959 and so much more convenient to do the ride share 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.360 apps than it is to hail a taxi. I guess 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.000 maybe in New York City the taxis have an advantage 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.960 over the ubers and the lift, but not here. How 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.240 do they stay in business. Well, it looks like this 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:52.200 is the way. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.199 Medical is keeping these drivers employed. 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.880 The other passenger never got back to us. Our undercover 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:03.680 investigation found other patients traveling just as far, upwards of 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.600 two hours in those taxis for a single appointment at 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.959 that same clinic, even though their rides take them past 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.640 other clinics that are much closer. We've also learned there 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.719 are currently no restrictions on how far a patient can 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.840 travel to get this kind of drug treatment. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:22.360 Of course there aren't. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.040 They're imagining some old lady that lives on top of 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.320 a mountain into hatchepee that needs to get to her 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:36.720 doctor appointment and didn't realize how easily this could be exploited, and. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.560 No caps on how much taxi companies can charge per trip. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.040 Here's one patient in their taxi after leaving the clinic 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.960 at about six thirty in the morning. They're on Highway 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.360 one oh one heading south. The cab eventually drives by 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:54.600 all three of Santa Clara County's other drug treatment clinics 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:59.440 before ultimately dropping off the passenger fifty miles away from 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:00.400 the barred clinic. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:07.640 At this point, they just all assume that no one's 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:11.160 minding the store, and they can get away with murder 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.160 because they're not even trying to hide what they're doing. 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.320 The biggest line item in the budget, next to education 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.640 is healthcare, and part of the reason it is so 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.760 expensive is there is so much of this crap going on. 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:33.240 These treatment centers offer recovering drug users medication called methodone. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:33.880 I knew it. 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:35.360 I knew called it. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:36.040 I knew it. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.680 By the way, when I was listening to this this morning, 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.760 I cut it off four minutes in because I knew 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.280 we were going with it, and I didn't want to 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:42.960 get spoiled. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.000 But I knew it was methodone. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:46.560 You call it. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:51.840 These treatment centers offer recovering drug users medication called methodone 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:56.040 to reduce cravings and lessen withdrawal symptoms. But patients need 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.440 to get those meds in person just about every day, 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.680 so the cost of those taxi rides adds up. 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.840 So you are paying someone twenty dollars a day, every 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.800 single day that this is their job. Their job is 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:14.720 paid for by the California taxpayer, to go get their methodone. 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.320 Unbelievable checker cab. 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.840 We started logging just how far taxis were traveling to 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.240 drop off passengers who were leaving the clinic. Over the 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:28.080 course of twenty rods, the cabs averaged close to thirty 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:32.080 miles just one way. A quarter of them traveled roughly 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.840 fifty miles in one direction. The cab company charges a 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.480 medical four bucks a mile. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:39.360 That adds up. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.920 How is it that Gavin Newsom hasn't figured this out. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:51.480 He's been governor for eight years and he is not 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.320 minding the score. He does not care about doing his 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.640 own job. He only cares about presenting himself to the 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.080 nation as a cab date for president. 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:07.680 The cabbies are pocketing two hundred dollars each way on 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:09.000 these trips. 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.679 So just one of those roundtrip fayars costs about four 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:17.160 hundred dollars. 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.600 There's a lot more to this story, and it is 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:26.520 It is fascinating how easy it is to defraud Medical. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.520 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.080 telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.800 two two. If you'd like to email the show, you 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.320 can do so at Johnny don't like show at gmail 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:43.119 dot com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail dot 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.879 com and Randy. 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This was uncovered by an 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:31.960 incredible investigation from NBC Bay Area, where taxicab drivers are 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:37.040 able to bill medical four dollars a mile for driving 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:41.720 recovering Drug Act drug addicts to a methadone clinic that 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:47.960 is fifty miles away. Let's continue from this incredible report 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:49.800 from NBC in the Bay. 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.359 All paid for by you. You're talking about thousands of 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.720 dollars in transportation costs every month just for one person. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.880 Yeah, and you figure how many taxi drivers are going. 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:01.640 Over Here's another cab coming in. 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.160 We went under cover to find out what was that cab? 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:06.600 We counted, what does this mean? 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.080 The reporter had to act like your typical methodone patient. 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:16.760 Well, having worked at news my entire life, there's plenty 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.159 of people in this industry who don't have to act. 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.800 We went under cover to find out what was that cab? 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.520 We counted dozens of taxi drop offs each day over 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.720 five days. Even before the door's open, there's usually a 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.680 line of the taxis outside. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:36.120 Oh forget what the clinic is charging for their methadone 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:41.600 treatment services. How much money is medical dolling out every 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:45.760 single year just to fraudulent taxi rides? 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:48.240 Sounds like a lot. 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:52.480 Oh yeah, Most passengers spent less than ten minutes inside 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.440 to take their medication and then headed right back out 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:57.760 to their cab driver for another trip home. 0:20:58.040 --> 0:20:59.280 Number six to two. 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:03.560 In a single day, we counted nearly one hundred round 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.520 trip taxi rides at that same methodone. 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:11.960 Clinic one hundred. So let's do a little math here. 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:16.159 We're averaging four hundred dollars each way, So times that 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.920 by two eight hundred dollars, then times that by one 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:25.919 hundred eighty thousand dollars a day in taxi rides just 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:27.680 for that one clinic. 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.720 And think about this for a moment. How often are 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:35.159 you asked to vote to raise your own taxes because 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:38.520 the government says they don't have enough money to fight 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:42.600 fires and to police your community and to make sure 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.720 that the roads are paved. But they have money for this. 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:49.080 If that clinic is opened three hundred and sixty five 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:54.080 days a year, just in the taxi reimbursements, medical would 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:57.440 be paying twenty nine million dollars. 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.920 Great, and we just for one clinic. 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:04.320 And we discovered nearly all of those taxis are part 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:08.679 of this same company. Rainbow Checker and Yellow Cab of 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:13.359 Silicon Valley all operate under Yellow Checker Cab, which has 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:17.440 been providing transportation services for Santa Clara County medical patients 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:20.720 for more than a decade. Larry Silva, this is their 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:23.680 entire business model, because who's calling a taxi in twenty 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:24.359 twenty six. 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:27.960 Nope, And they all need business licenses from you know who, 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:29.640 the state of California. 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:34.320 Larry Silva, the president of Yellow Checker Cab, declined to 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:37.000 talk with us on camera, but told us his company 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:41.160 maintains a zero tolerance policy for fraud, waste or abuse. 0:22:41.600 --> 0:22:42.360 Not buying that. 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:45.320 Yeah, it sounds like they're really on top of that one. 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:48.720 He also said his business has been unable to verify 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:54.040 any allegations of kickbacks involving his roughly two hundred taxi drivers, 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:56.760 who he says are independent contractors. 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:57.960