James O’Keefe, the conservative activist/filmmaker who famously obtained undercover footage of Planned Parenthood and ACORN employees willing to break laws, has now turned his attention to Medicaid fraud.
In his latest effort, he has two fake “Russian drug dealers” visit Medicaid offices in Ohio and ask for advice on multiple abortions for their 12-year-old sisters, ask if they can own a million-dollar supercar (a McLaren F1) and still qualify for Medicaid, and ask if Medicaid will come into their houses and pull up their floorboards to get to their drug stash. “We’re not the police,” is the response.
Now, these Medicaid screeners seem to be average Americans working in a government office. They’re not the zealot pro-abortion types, or the socialist activists you’ll find in a Planned Parenthood or ACORN office. Yet, none of them expressed outrage, dismay, or even sadness that what they thought were drug dealers who were admitting to all sorts of past and future crimes. Nor did they point out that Medicaid was designed for poor people who actually needed help, and that any money they gave to them would keep it from going to people who really need it.
What is it in the American psyche that kept these bureaucrats from defending their program from scofflaws and cheats? Why were they hesitant to tell these guys to take a hike? Where is their sense of right and wrong? Where is their outrage? What’s happened to America?
