The $2 Billion Rehab Scam

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In America, private organizations have been picking up intoxicated people from off the street, under the guise of helping them get sober. But in reality, they're kidnapping people, plying them with more drugs and alcohol, and keeping them captive- all for some of that sweet, sweet taxpayer money. This is how from 2021 to 2023, $2 billion was stolen from the American taxpayer in just one state, in one of the biggest Medicaid fraud schemes in the history of Arizona, involving hundreds of fraudulent drug and alcohol rehab facilities. So, what is the sober living scandal in Arizona? How did this happen, and what can be done to prevent it from happening again?
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@RevaStewart 4 месяца назад

Thank you !! This Is Reva Stewart with Stolen People Stolen Benefits..Thank you for this and bringing it to light , We appreciate Justin Lum from fox10 phoenix for his reporting! Unfortunately the issue is still going on and more recruiting since the moratorium ending in June..frustrating but please keep this alive and going .. I hope we get accountability for the lives lost and ones still missing

@GeorgRockallSchmidt 4 месяца назад

Thank *you* for all your hard work and compassion. The world needs more people like you.

@marknugent9851 Месяц назад

@@GeorgRockallSchmidt I second that. Thanks Reva

@NextToToddliness 6 месяцев назад

As an Indigenous person who is from & live in Arizona, thank you for covering this, because most folks here already forgot it happened.

@JamesDecker7 6 месяцев назад

As someone working in Tuba City…this whole situation has been and continues to make my blood BOIL.

@WobblesandBean 6 месяцев назад

I'm guessing those "most folks" are of the pale variety.

@Manticorn 6 месяцев назад

Absolutely revolting and unacceptable. The way that settlers in the US treat the indigenous like trash while stealing the aesthetics and signifiers of their culture because they wish so badly that they instead had any ancient ancestral claim to the land. It really boils my blood.

@ryanziller220 6 месяцев назад

Do not call yourself indigenous since you are native to the lands of your people. The term is derogatory.

@MarsMellow84 6 месяцев назад

I live in AZ too, and I am so appalled and disgusted by this story! Like the white man haven't done enough damage to Native American tribes.

@user-account-not-found 6 месяцев назад

The people they pretended to treat are more likely to go to jail then the fraudsters who did this.

@freshbornmute2752 6 месяцев назад

Almost like this is what's encouraged by everyone and for everyone.

@lynncarrico6620 5 месяцев назад

Exactly...it's like who will believe a user or addict over a drug counselor.

@imogenx9145 6 месяцев назад

I think they really thought that no one would notice or care, and no one did for a really long time.

@trueKENTUCKY 6 месяцев назад

The cycle will repeat in 15 years

@Manticorn 6 месяцев назад

So ironic that the British guy had to be the one to bring it up. It makes me angry that he's had to be the one to make me aware, but I'm not even remotely surprised, since I already knew about the human trafficking and sex slavery of indigenous women while the police turn a blind eye.

@Pes._ 17 дней назад

@@Manticornhe didnt make you aware. He didnt make himself aware. He made a video. You where made aware by the algo.

@davidmylchreest3306 6 месяцев назад

Unbelievably, there was an episode of King Of The Hill 20 years ago about this exact sort of scam.

@writheagainsoon 6 месяцев назад

In Portland, at 13, a car stopped a friend and I. "Do either of y'all have insurance?" Said the driver. "Of course they have insurance, they're kids," said the passenger. "We have a place you can stay. You'll get payed $50 every night" the driver continued. Thankfully we noped the fuck out of there. Even at that age, it made no sense to me how any business could work that way. Even after an adult tried to explain it to me. When I became an addict later in life, it took way too long to seek help. Because I was so scared of meeting the same fate as so many others. I had many fanily and friends on the res wjo were not so lucky.

@tigerwoods373 6 месяцев назад

Probably would've kept you locked in a small room for months or years and never gotten even the 50 bucks. Human trafficking and insurance fraud, what a combo.

@LudvigIndestrucable 6 месяцев назад

What shocks me is not the abuse of these systems, but that there seems to have been next to no genuine use of this money. There genuinely was a lot of money available for genuine treatment and it all seems to have been wasted.

@tigerwoods373 6 месяцев назад

You'd almost be better off giving the thousand a month to the addict themselves. They'd either od or get their life together. At least nobody would be preying on people like that though

@LudvigIndestrucable 6 месяцев назад

@@tigerwoods373 well, they would be better off getting the therapy sessions paid for, the testing, the in-facility care, all the things that there was funding for, could actually have really helped the addicts, but also the indigenous community. If there has been a tribal run, properly overseen, addiction service, it would have massively improved that community, instead it was spent on tat.

@pjf674 6 месяцев назад

Even w/o the ability to charge insurance companies, a lot of sober/recovery houses are extremely sketchy. It allows landlords and property managers to cram people into houses and collect weekly rent from family members or charities without any of the usual protections granted to tenants. No leases, no rent courts and the ability to kick people out for any reason. In my area, these places aren't considered healthcare providers or even landlords so there is no oversight.

@Planag7 6 месяцев назад

There was a local one that just got shut down a few weeks ago... had over 30 people in like a four-bedroom house!!!

@pjf674 6 месяцев назад

@@Planag7 Assuming they got at least $150/week/person, its waaaay more lucrative than if they rented that same place legitimately. If you couldn't tell, I have first hand experience on this. These places just prey on people.

@BuckeyeStormsProductions 6 месяцев назад

There was a place near us who had the, "residents," work on the house as part of their treatment, basically remodeling the place. Once the place was all fixed up, it was sold by the owner for a profit. The guy then moved the operation to another rundown house, and started the cycle again. Fortunately the guy was eventually arrested for human trafficking, and forced labor charges.

@djquinn11 5 месяцев назад

Yes same in the Detroit area

@juliana.x0x0 5 месяцев назад

In California, I was in one where we had sometimes 6 women per 3 bedroom, dilapidated house (not including their children) paying $500 a month. Sometimes there would be up to 12 kids in the house sleeping on disgusting dirty stained carpets. So gross.

@chickensinthemist 6 месяцев назад

My grandmother used to run one of these in Pennsylvania, targeting Puerto Ricans. I had no idea that what she was doing wasn't genuine charity work until an exposé was published in the newspaper

@MrSadisticLlama 6 месяцев назад

SO you've reported her or what?

@epicfailguy2 6 месяцев назад

Bro an expose means its already out there @@MrSadisticLlama

@randombrokeperson 6 месяцев назад

She already got caught if it was in the news.

@stella-vu8vh 6 месяцев назад

tell me more

@blackmoldinurwalls 6 месяцев назад

jesus christ. what's she doing now?

@rosecity_chris 6 месяцев назад

Ive been yelling about this for years. The rehabilitation industry is super predatory. I was court mandated to go to an outpatient treatment when i got a dui a decade ago. Found out they were scamming my insurance by making up all kinds of fake charges and UAs i never took. If you dont have insurance and cant pay insane prices they kick you out. Which means jail or back to an addiction for most.

@Nothingseen 6 месяцев назад

I got into consistent fights with people around the addiction treatment sphere cause of this. We're in a transition period of how to treat addiction, but people aren't fully ready to admit that the best way to deal with it isn't guys talking to you about Jesus. So a place where people with barely any credentials that scams the fuck out of everyone and whose 'treatment' is mostly addicts talking to each other settles right into the system, instead of being an aberration that people notice immediately. An actual professional and medical approach to addiction would stamp out this nonsense. But so many people who go into addiction treatment are products of these systems, and since they've been treated by shedding their previous identities to gain a new one, attacking the system that did that is now attacking them at their core.

@cascadianrangers728 6 месяцев назад

My ex, who OD'ed and died in my arms, told me all about this scam years and years ago after she went thru rehab in Mesa, AZ. You were so pretty and so very, very smart, Lucy. I still think about you every day.

@conzmoleman 6 месяцев назад

Sorry for your loss. Good reminder to always keep narcan around.

@sneedmando186 6 месяцев назад

🕯️ ❤ 😔

@writheagainsoon 6 месяцев назад

May she rest in peace

@somethingsomething404 6 месяцев назад

If only you had narcan or called and help arrived in time and they had narcan

@MidBoss 6 месяцев назад

I'm so sorry. Hope you're doing well

@Games_and_Music 6 месяцев назад

This is exactly what the Salvation Army is doing in my town, they house addicted people, but their building is in the town's centre, so there's a lot of people with money around that want to go shopping etc. They kick the addicts out in the morning and take them back in at dusk, so they'll roam around during the day. They beg every day, and apparently it helps, because otherwise they'd be gone by now. While the Salvation Army cashes in on the subsidies that come from the government or families. I have been saying this for a while, but it is good to see that you can actually show how it is done. It's a heartless scam, while pretending to be helping them. This week, a colleague of mine got the bad news that one of his old friends, that was housed in redecorated office buildings, now owned by the Salvation Army, was found dead on his bed by his roommate. And because that person did not have insurance to pay for his funeral, it's just going to be done cheaply and almost anonymously (almost, because this person did actually have friends and family), and the home will be free for the next patient. For them it must be a well practiced routine by now, it's just morbid and evil.

@youforget1000thingsaday 6 месяцев назад

This ain't gonna have the proper coverage because it's happening to Indigenous people. No one ever talks about our struggles so thank you for covering this.

@Vapourwear 5 месяцев назад

I’ve been hearing about nothing, but the indigenous struggles of indigenous people for 40 fucking years…

@Kurus-pq7xw 5 месяцев назад

The struggles your people cause themselves on the Rez?

@pennybourban3712 5 месяцев назад

Canada probably has a version of this too.

@Vapourwear 5 месяцев назад

@@shponglechunch that was damn near 200 years ago… GTFOver it.

@jameslancefield9810 6 месяцев назад

There is a similar system in the UK called Restart. Profiting from drug rehab, special place in hell for you, there is.

@dagfinissocool 6 месяцев назад

We have private care homes in Norway billing the state for all kinds of stuff while the residents sell Heroin from their room, meanwhile the staff is knocking on the door asking if they want dinner:) The junkies usually love it tho..

@TerminallyChill85 6 месяцев назад

I worked in program evaluation for a nonprofit. We were helping homeless veterans get jobs. I read over the documents and they estimated several thousand eligible vets, basically the entire homeless vet population. In reality, only a tiny fraction could make it through the program. This was quite predictable as obviously many had disabilities that prevented them from working, or simply didn't want a job, or needed treatment we couldn't realistically provide. In the end, maybe 10% could become employed, and those that did were so motivated, they didn't need our help. Yet, we received funding as if the entire population could be served. There was no discussion in the proposal about how many vets could be realistically employed. We ended up with such ridiculous targets they tried to get office staff to work the street for clients. They ran through an entire team in a year. In the end, I think it was all intended. They knew they would get the funding for a few years, no matter how poorly the program performed. The design document was so obviously flawed, it's amazing no one in the government questioned it before pouring hundreds of thousands into the project.

@stellviahohenheim 6 месяцев назад

shut up, you're one of them

@HeatherHolt 6 месяцев назад

It always amazes me how the govt can be so willing to shell out money to ridiculous things on one hand, yet make such a big deal about ever giving people breaks on the other hand - healthcare, student loans, taxes in general, childcare, food stamps… VA healthcare… small business assistance. Housing assistance. Mortgage assistance.

@cyberninjazero5659 6 месяцев назад

@@HeatherHoltThe money moves around in a circle. Nonprofits are allowed to be political donors, it's easy to do the math from there

@mobilemarshall 6 месяцев назад

politics doesn't care about nuance

@chilloften 5 месяцев назад

Because it’s their buddies or extended family running it. Just like the construction jobs.

@Puiz4Life 6 месяцев назад

This is sick...

@jarg8 6 месяцев назад

This is capitalism. Find a scam and profit quick. Begs for loopholes to be exploited by people who don't care

@lapsijahti 6 месяцев назад

is this sick🔥💯? or sick🤢🤮?

@nolanduarte 6 месяцев назад

Sic

@SanS33 6 месяцев назад

I'm in the middle of getting sober and just in the past 6 months I've had 4 doctors tell me that they'll tell me what to say to my insurance to get them to pay for "a great treatment center" while I'm already in one and am just came to them looking for a primary care provider...

@JamesDecker7 6 месяцев назад

As someone living/working on the Navajo Nation this situation has been making my blood boil since around 2021 when we started noticing this stuff from patient reports and as mentioned, Dash. We didn’t WANT to believe it at first. And now it is super hard to get the people who DO need treatment into treatment. FML. 5:59 Shout out for my TC people! 14:58 Dash! This man deserves so much love for looking into this!

@EricDMMiller 6 месяцев назад

How come they are dumb enough to be victimized like this?

@njalsand133 6 месяцев назад

@@EricDMMiller drugs and booze makes people dumbin excess

@JamesDecker7 6 месяцев назад

@@EricDMMiller Your question is in part answered if you watched the video: they often picked up people who were already intoxicated. The reason we won’t let people make legal decisions when intoxicated is that it makes you acutely “stupid”. A second part is that these places places told people whatever they wanted to hear: things I have heard were said range from, “We’ll help you get a place in the valley and help you find a job”, (when the person actually wanted to get sober) to “We have a party house! Come hang!” Note: these people weren’t “stupid” as compared to any other people. They were specifically taken advantage of. Hell, I tend to think of myself as very smart and I’ve still been fleeced once or twice at certain times in my life.

@effexon 6 месяцев назад

your first sentence says why this is so perfect crime business: they use "virtue signal" shield that you are oppressing poor/disadvantaged people if you try to criticize or bring misuse any way.

@EricDMMiller 6 месяцев назад

@@JamesDecker7 I guess they should stop being wasted, fucked up, and strung out all the time.

@Animei9 6 месяцев назад

You're a good man. Thank you for bringing this deplorable situation to light. It's incredible to me that the government completely ignores the fact that there's been countless cases of kidnapping. After all, what does it matter when these are marginalized people? It makes me furious. I think it's horrible that they're ripping everybody off and they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but to overlook the kidnappings is beyond unacceptable

@winterhaydn 6 месяцев назад

"We don't have a health system, we have a sickness and disability system."

@MartianPink 6 месяцев назад

this guy gives good business advice. Now to just get the start up capital. Airbnb money, a liquor budget & maybe a couple vans. We only need the one but multiple vans gives the operation a more established business appearance. Oh & schedule a soul-ectomy. Need to remove the conscience to make it all possible.

@GeorgRockallSchmidt 6 месяцев назад

Start now with a mermaid statue payment plan. Only 157 easy payments of $99.95.

@effexon 6 месяцев назад

college kids like to drink though.... prime customer segment to give free drinks. some may like vans too (80s hippie van thing)

@axollot 5 месяцев назад

It looks to pay well for even legitimate services 🤷‍♀️ 7k per person can buy a lot of food, even a chef to cook it. The soul doesn't need removal then.

@frozenbinarystudio 6 месяцев назад

This was one of the most difficuly to get through videos I have ever watched from just how vile the injustice is

@SuppressedOfficial 6 месяцев назад

Plot twist: fraud is the entire point of programs like this.

@dab88 6 месяцев назад

yeah you don't start a program with such loose regulation without knowing exactly what's going to happen. It's almost as if somebody has something against native americans...

@SuppressedOfficial 6 месяцев назад

@@dab88To be clear, I mean all of these welfare programs. They are all meant to cause harm, not to help anything. Even basic medicaid has been closing the doors of local hospitals in the united states for decades by requiring hospitals to accept patients and then refusing to pay the cost of a visit. The reason our government does things like this has nothing to do with disliking indians and everything to do with HATING US ALL. These programs are meant to put money in the pockets of the right people by stealing it from everyone else.

@DemstarAus 6 месяцев назад

@@dab88right! "We had this incredible program available but it still failed. If this can't help them, they don't want to be helped."

@DoloRoboto 6 месяцев назад

And addicts @@dab88

@dcgregorya5434 4 месяца назад

@dab88 greed is a more powerful motivator than hate. The people who make these programs have their buddies exploit them, I'd bet.

@PlayingGilly 6 месяцев назад

This is a prime subject matter for a Behind The Bastards episode. These people are soulless.

@benjaminrichey278 6 месяцев назад

Too many people to showcase

@dziban303 6 месяцев назад

didn't he already cover this? like three years ago?

@Nothingseen 6 месяцев назад

@@dziban303 I'd be surprised if he didn't.

@andzzz2 6 месяцев назад

What a shocking story and well told as ever. I have to say, despite this being a particularly egregious example, there's something of this in a lot of psychiatriac and addiction care. That people in desparate straits are being commoditfied for others to make money off. Money that would be life changing for the people supposedly being helped largely passes them by.

@stuff4826 6 месяцев назад

they used to do this with children and adoption programs. was a scandal in the 90s in the us but it still goes on in other countries. in sweden yelling at your kid is grounds for a lose of custody. in poland an elderly couple had 20 sick kids they nabbed out of hospices.

@Craxin01 6 месяцев назад

Greed destroys everything.

@naamadossantossilva4736 6 месяцев назад

A big government helps too.

@Craxin01 6 месяцев назад

@@naamadossantossilva4736 It's not the size of the government, it's the inefficiency and the corruption. A government ten times as big but extremely efficient and without corruption wouldn't allow this to happen.

@50PullUps 6 месяцев назад

Greed can create good things like new inventions. This is a case of organized criminal enterprises exploiting programs for government assistance.

@ttthttpd 6 месяцев назад

Greed isn't the problem, lack of ethics is. Put another way, desire isn't wrong, means to achieving those desires are wrong. In this scam they are preying upon desperate and discarded people as a means to parasitize off of government funds. All for easy quick money. A honest salary man who invests wisely for decades can also be deemed "greedy" for spending his accumulated wealth as he sees fit. But only a fool or an absolute parasite would condemn him.

@Craxin01 6 месяцев назад

@@50PullUps Wrong. Innovation creates new inventions, greed attempts to strangle innovation to maintain power and a source of revenue. Ever wonder why we're STILL using petroleum and haven't graduated to something else? Greed, strangling innovation.

@UnityAgainstJewishEvil 6 месяцев назад

This is HUGE in florida. Here in MA, they get tons of junkies to go down there to florida, where they essentially keep people addicted to keep their funding flowing. I’ve had many friends fall victim to this, who ended up getting tangled in this vicious cycle while they were already in a terrible place on their life. I first heard about this back in 2012.

@somethingsomething404 6 месяцев назад

Yeah it started in Florida, FL shuffle

@JamesDecker7 6 месяцев назад

@@somethingsomething404 Heh, I specifically warned people from my area to avoid the FL shuffle (they took a lot of people from Virginia when I was in training there) when they can’t get into local services.

@hayorge27 6 месяцев назад

@JamesDecker7 going on in FL 2001 when I was sent to Boca Raton

@longlivebeans 5 месяцев назад

Ah yes the ol’ Florida shuffle

@pennybourban3712 5 месяцев назад

These are the true "welfare queens" the people running this scam. One became a senator in Florida after a Medicare scam.

@curiousworld7912 6 месяцев назад

As I'm sure someone has already stated; this is what happens when a society places its highest values in a transactional light. The privatization of services - never meant to be 'money makers' - has made this sort of ugly, yet highly profitable scam inevitable.

@stellviahohenheim 6 месяцев назад

America is one huge cult

@JohnMoseley 6 месяцев назад

Specifically, it's when the state outsources activities such as healthcare and prison services that shouldn't be run for profit to profit-seeking companies.

@curiousworld7912 6 месяцев назад

@@JohnMoseley Exactly. I believe Thomas Paine had a few words to say on that.

@omarkenoh 6 месяцев назад

This is just a degree of greed and evil I could not even concieve of.

@pablomoreno1206 6 месяцев назад

Hey Georg, great video. A friend of mine rented his house out after moving only to find one of these operations had been set up in his old home. This is in a small border town in Arizona. I didn't know it was such a big issue!

@meaghanvanloenen8458 6 месяцев назад

Excellent coverage of a scam as always, Georg. I especially loved that you made an effort to source and include legitimate government resources for the end of the video and that you offered genuine and non-condescending words of support for those who need to hear them.

@EpsilonsReviews 6 месяцев назад

I have to say that The Salvation Army, nearly every shelter with, “addictions programs,” charge insurance to the thousands and have their captive residents paid pennies for “structure building chores.” All while letting “lucky individuals,” receive food, shelter, and sometimes basic decency. Perhaps if that money, or those resources, went to housing these people, we’d be spending a lot less and maybe actually helping people!

@stuff4826 6 месяцев назад

how would housing heal a junkie.

@deedeeramone34 6 месяцев назад

I went through the Salvation Army program and it was free for everyone who was low income.

@ImSimplyAHuman 6 месяцев назад

@@deedeeramone34… because it was funded by the state? 🥸

@juliana.x0x0 5 месяцев назад

@@stuff4826well when you're struggling to stay warm and get basic needs met, getting sober is not high up on your priority list. Realistically, people need safety and stability before they decide to give up the only thing that gives them a sense of comfort in their chaotic lives. This has been well documented in studies, people do much better with their addiction and mental health issues when they have their needs met. People turn to drugs for a reason, it's a way to ease pain in the short term. There has to be a benefit to using drugs (however short sighted that benefit might be), otherwise it wouldn't be such a continuous problem in society.

@cassandratq9301 3 месяца назад

"How would housing heal a junkie?" It might not, but this fraud depends on the availability of unhoused people to kidnap + exploit. If those people were not homeless, they wouldn't be tricked into being aducted and abused. (And, once housed, could seek out legitimate help for themselves from places where the funds are going to the intended use.)

@MightyMurloc 6 месяцев назад

As someone who gratefully got a stay at a private psychiatric house/rehab in the UK in my youth (Designated by patients as "Sad" and "Bad"). I'm absolutely disgusted by this scam. All scams are disgusting, sure. But It's the bottom of the bottom of the barrel here.

@millana100 5 месяцев назад

It's horrible because there are a lot of people who DO want to go to a rehab/recovery house program. There is not need for kidnapping. But when you're greedy there is never enough money.

@azuredystopia3751 6 месяцев назад

This is the most shocked i've been in a long time. It's a cliché to say I'm sickened but no superlative can adequately describe how nauseous this makes me feel. It's heartbreaking and rage inducing. They treat human beings like actual sentient trash. Let justice be served for once, jfc.

@EricDMMiller 6 месяцев назад

They are trash people. Didn't you hear how communities where these people were taken from had their crime rates drop?

@Someone-qy3kv 6 месяцев назад

A few years ago. I thought I should give treatment. Another go. I called several looking for one in my state somewhat close so my family could visit. Long story short. The company lied about their location until the last moment trying to get my insurance. Then when I declined to go. For the next 2 months they called none stop trying to get me to come in. The tactics they used were absolutely brutal. Trying to gas light me. Guilt me into going. Quite literally telling me I’m worthless and a failure and too scared to get sober…. It took me recording the last call with them and threatening to get the states attorney involved before they finally stopped.

@kevinclark8356 6 месяцев назад

This is monstrous. I hope these scumbags get brought to justice.

@kev-larscuba2323 6 месяцев назад

Their scam wouldn’t work without the justice system. So I wouldn’t lean on that to correct the situation.

@briancrawford8751 6 месяцев назад

@@kev-larscuba2323 Calling the US Dept. of Health and Human Resources Medicaid Fraud Hotline definitely works for things like charging for services that haven't been provided or charging non-existent patients or people who are no longer patients. You don't seem to know what does work, so I'm telling you about something that will.

@stellviahohenheim 6 месяцев назад

America is really a cursed land

@ComradeCatpurrnicus 6 месяцев назад

Incredibly horrific... the amount of horror generated by profit seekers when it comes to our basic necessities, our healthcare, everything... this is prime example of how horrible for-profit systems are.

@ringsystemmusic 3 месяца назад

Way more based than I usually hear from someone with an apu profile pic

@SecondTake123 6 месяцев назад

And this makes people question legitimate organizations that want to help people.

@PogieJoe 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the excellent subtitles. What a chilling phenomenon. I appreciate you shedding light on it.

@Epiclyfail 6 месяцев назад

Ah that explains why the rehab centers failed my family member in Kentucky.

@adamelliott2302 6 месяцев назад

Thankfully they got all the pesky red tape that small businesses have to put up with out of the way.

@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown 6 месяцев назад

It's insane how something like this can be done so easily, but then certain other things require going through a bunch of crap.

@skullsaintdead 6 месяцев назад

@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTownSure but don't you recon that red tape is the very thing that prevents this kind of disgusting scam? As they say "regulations are written in blood".

@gonesnake2337 6 месяцев назад

Georg with the well researched and well presented case, doing good work.

@ChrisDied 6 месяцев назад

The abstract thought of money really fucked up life for intelligent life on this planet...

@brokendeck08 6 месяцев назад

You better be on drugs or alcohol,because that cringe way of wording "money bad has the potential to kill more people than fentanyl

@robloggia 6 месяцев назад

Oh look he's talking about my home state.....Oh...Oooh

@totonow6955 6 месяцев назад

Ah KENTUCKY! Exactly. Sober living home to the left of me, SLH to the right. Here I am stuck in the middle with you. There is a billboard on the way to my home that says "Come Home to Recover" . Gross.

@astralshore 6 месяцев назад

And to add insult to injustice, there’s probably legitimate centers that actually try to help people that are now being eyed with suspicion or even have to shut down. This is one of the most vile and pernicious schemes I’ve ever heard of. People of Arizona: even if you don’t care about the people affected, these criminals stole from you, too!

@rucker69 6 месяцев назад

Starting from a base assumption that they don't care about the affected people is pretty trash.

@A_BOMB 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for covering this!!! I'm an addict in recovery and have been in and out of sober living houses for years. There's no regulations at all it seems. Some are ok but a lot of them are just paychecks for the owners. I've seen them pack 6 adult men into 1 bedroom and keep people that are obviously mentally unstable and violent just long enough to get their rent check from the county. There needs to be some sort of accountability. I've personally been taken advantage of (sexually) by the owner of a house when I had a relapse. Just cash grabs for people.

@writheagainsoon 6 месяцев назад

Yep. When I was dealing, my biggest customers were sober house owners. Knew one lady who would cop just to frame her patients. Gotta pay up or you get kicked out for relapsing. Worked really well on single moms and people desperate to save their relationships with their families. And being in recovery, the horror stories I've heard from others... you are not alone. And that's the worst part. I'm so sorry you had to endure that. And I truly hope you have found a proper support network that loves you.

@Planag7 6 месяцев назад

My church had a variation of this that makes anyone from minor porn addiction to like hardcore drug abusers and isolated them from their family. It was all for free labor for the church selling it to other businesses around them and of course no treatment. Shut down because one of the guys who was married was forbidden to leave when there was a financial emergency and basically had to escape. Mind you he volunteered but when the state investigated it shut the whole thing down

@blah2blah65 6 месяцев назад

Hopefully that is your "ex-church" if this is something recent!

@victorcippitelli2242 6 месяцев назад

This is sick, even in modern time when supposly they are giving attention and focus of native americans and the importance of their culture and having all that represented in movies and series, even in superhero stuff which is massive given the medium, they are still treated horribly. America never changed in how they treat natives.

@EricDMMiller 6 месяцев назад

To be fair, they have to be pretty dumb and pathetic to fall victim to this.

@freshbornmute2752 6 месяцев назад

It's about vulnerability. Profit motive necessarily means exploitation of the vulnerable.

@djquinn11 5 месяцев назад

Shameful. These people are predators and criminals of the first order. Preying on the vulnerable should be punishable by life in prison.

@francesbernard2445 5 месяцев назад

What about all those who believe that sometimes the M.A.I.D. program up here in Canada is needed to serve people for only 'legitamate' reasons too instead of offering proper social safety net daily living services to be only say helping them to build a wheelchair ramp, making the interior doors in their home wider and providing them a portable chair lift which can be operated by 2 people after they take a short course in how to do client transfers? - While during their short hospitalization in a rehabilitation medical services building it is costing our health care system just as much in funds to serve them during each week there. Like when living with their college age student adult child at home and their continuing to be healthy in contrast spouse.

@Madkalibyr 6 месяцев назад

Thank you Georg. You are an incredible creator and you dedicate your time to some really worthwhile causes, I’m grateful and will share this video to every space I can think of . ❤

@PathfinderWOTRfan 6 месяцев назад

soulless people

@somethingsomething404 6 месяцев назад

This started in Florida like 10 years ago, they called it the Florida shuffle.(treatment home to treatment home shuffle) I think that was targeting people’s kids with private insurance though

@toshokanhon 6 месяцев назад

Yep I saw it on an episode of American Greed

@longlivebeans 5 месяцев назад

Being an addict in this country puts you at major risk of exploitation. You’re better off just locking yourself in a room with a bucket Trainspotting style than entering into a rehab.

@paulnash9851 6 месяцев назад

My god, I am absolutely repulsed. Thanks for this video, it was very well said.

@theunknowncorps22 6 месяцев назад

"In America..." Where else?

@Pikachu2Ash 6 месяцев назад

Scams don't just exist in the USA, there are gullible people everywhere 😅

@droopy_eyes 6 месяцев назад

@@Pikachu2Ash Yeah, but state/nation funded slave dens to exploit individuals are either a case for communist nations or USA.

@Serahpin 6 месяцев назад

Plenty of The Guardian articles about similar things happening in Britain. Scams don't only happen in America.

@tree_eats 6 месяцев назад

@@Pikachu2Ash Nice deflection but this is a bit more than just "scams", mate.

@Pikachu2Ash 6 месяцев назад

@tree_eats It has scam in the title weirdo. I'm not trying to deflect anything.

@freshbornmute2752 6 месяцев назад

''Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain.'' ''Profit motive is the incentive to earn net financial gains by undertaking any sort of business activity. That applies to companies as well as individuals, whether they’re buying, selling, or taking part in any other sort of economic endeavor.''

@rosebudadkins6803 5 месяцев назад

As a Lakota/Eastern Cherokee i am not surprised just appalled. This has never stopped we continue to be preyed on. Our women and children go missing at alarming rates. The Cabal is behind it all. Follow the money. Correct not supervised false imprisonment.

@styraxopoponax8294 6 месяцев назад

An insidious aspect of this is that US conservatives-if they actually bothered to look into the inner workings of social programs, let alone care about these victims-would be able to point to this and scream that all social programs are corrupt.

@corncake4677 6 месяцев назад

Yeah this video is bait for people to go “rehab is BAD we need to criminalize drug users MORE because that will definitely work”

@danielcichello4421 6 месяцев назад

Really?

@ethanirving1313 6 месяцев назад

😂🤣 your trying

@farrahupson 6 месяцев назад

I think it's more of an example of how conservatives claim that the government can't be relied on to do anything right, which misses the fact that it is possible to have functional government. It's interesting that the profit motive is both driving the bad behavior seen in the video, and the bad behavior that is keeping our government non functional.

@BobExcalibur 6 месяцев назад

You remind me of the Norm Macdonald bit about the worst part about islamic terrorism is the POSSIBILITY of backlash against innocent muslims. Not the atrocity itself, not the culture of fear it causes, jus that the idea of a theoretical backlash. It is in fact your line of thinking that is used to justify left wing people not investigating welfare fraud, human trafficking through migration NGOs, and internecine abuse between Protected Demographics. "The absolute WORST part is when people notice that policies we're in favour of are capable of being corrupt, abusive and self-perpetuating, so its VITAL that we obscure and hide whenever that happens to preserve our reputation!" Sheer, revolting callous ego and misanthropy.

@saab9251 6 месяцев назад

How is this not nationwide news and headlines??

@homerco213 6 месяцев назад

Pretty solid investigative journalism here.

@mrnice4434 6 месяцев назад

If your "scam" involve kidnapping people I feel like calling is a scam is kinda downplaying it...

@leeives9109 6 месяцев назад

A very solid video and commentary. Strong simple ending too.

@marknugent9851 Месяц назад

Love your work man, nice piece at the end. "F*** these people", indeed. Peace and love to people struggling with addiction, you deserve better than you are getting.

@roccov1972 6 месяцев назад

Nice job putting this report together. Thanks for opening our eyes and minds.

@lennongotti751 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for what you said at the end. Struggling and it helped me.

@TroubleToby3040 6 месяцев назад

GREAT video! I do have a couple of questions: 1. Will I need my vehicle (the one for picking up "patients") to be specially certified? With special tags and such? 2. Is there any way to "cross pollinate" this endeavor with my current hustle of sex trafficking? I only have one vehicle, but I believe it would be well suited to both "businesses". Thanks in advance for your prompt reply... And God Bless!!

@GeorgRockallSchmidt 6 месяцев назад

1. No, use a shopping basket if you need to. 2. Why not also take them around some houses to clean before getting to the sober living “home”?

@TroubleToby3040 6 месяцев назад

@@GeorgRockallSchmidt 😂🤣😂😭😭😭

@OK-hl6qd 6 месяцев назад

thanks for doing this

@jthom0027 2 месяца назад

It will never cease to amaze me the depths people will go to to get shitty handbags or shitty stupid furnishings unless it is actual work.

@JohnBrown-ut7ug 6 месяцев назад

The combination of angry and sad that I get from your video's is WILD.

@franmcwhorter9654 6 месяцев назад

You're awesome thank you so much for making this

@NdellaTall 6 месяцев назад

every day I find more evil in this world.

@leeweesquee 6 месяцев назад

The US need a hard reset

@mups4016 6 месяцев назад

Ok Mr. Schwab, whatever you say.

@stellviahohenheim 6 месяцев назад

You know your ancestors are cultist that Europe chased away for being too crazy right?

@omg_look_behind_you 6 месяцев назад

You bored up there in Davos?

@gregtaylor9806 3 месяца назад

Just abolish public funding for substance abuse rehabilitation of any kind. Let drunks and addicts fend for themselves. It would be more complicated than that, with some even harder swallows but it would be interesting, cheap, and make that lifestyle much less attractive

@PeenWienerstien 6 месяцев назад

This is what happens when you dont solve a problem but instead just throw money at it until goes away.

@barbarabrooks4747 6 месяцев назад

Families of patients should serve on the boards of rehab centers to prevent fraud, negligence and abuse.

@vicaldama9314 6 месяцев назад

After they made the movie wind River they finally started to pay attention to missing indigenous females... But I guess it's one foot to the side one foot forward a couple steps back one step forward....

@francesbernard2445 5 месяцев назад

There are missing and found murdered indigenous male humans too however that doesn't sound sexy enough to as many people when politicians are saying they need taxpayer funds to investigate why they go missing and murdered too more often than anyone who can afford security guard services people do.

@ButterfieldEric 6 месяцев назад

Best video essayist on RU-vid.

@Rexini_Kobalt 6 месяцев назад

these are a huge problem here in florida. its even worse when you realize that these places will basically traffic people who have no way to stand up for themselves (children, drug addicts, felons, etc.) and sending them off to places like utah, etc. and these are just the normal rehabs, not halfway houses. people will willingly send their children and family to these awful rehabs and nobody wants to listen to or believe these people because they are already deemed so untrustworthy. we live in a very very sick country, with people doing insane things to their family members

@ezbody 5 месяцев назад

These type of scams are not even new. We have had them pop up for centuries, under the guise of helping the poor, orphans, sick, indigenous, homeless, troubled.

@KizetteandTotoro 5 месяцев назад

Life is like Star Wars…always fighting evil. Excellent report. Thank you, sir.

@stedydubdetroit 6 месяцев назад

11:45 damn. This is effing evil‼️I’m 3 years sober 🙋🏼‍♀️ AA and the book “This Naked Mind” are what helped me.

@pedrocoentro2009 6 месяцев назад

Despicable people. Preying on the weak like this. Love from Portugal

@agnostic1247 6 месяцев назад

Kentucky… gonna admit I’ve lost a bit of respect. And glad you’re digging into this. Fraud in medicine here moves from state to state in search of easy targets. They always find one.

@GlacialScion 6 месяцев назад

I mean, Mitch McConnell is Kentucky's. Not a lot to respect there. Lol.

@dziban303 6 месяцев назад

why lose respect? he and his wife are raising the average IQ of the state by five, ten points

@headlessspaceman5681 Месяц назад

The rehab franchise in the strip mall will always remind me of Philip K Dick's book A Scanner Darkly, and the Richard Linklater film version.

@DestinyMagus07 6 месяцев назад

I can only hope the first ghoul who came up with this idea is annoyed that other people stole their brilliant scheme. Oh, and that they and their ilk get a nice long sentence. That too.

@MagicPlants 5 месяцев назад

7 years 10 months clean here

@MiracleChips 6 месяцев назад

Hey, fellow Kentuckian here. Just when you think the addiction & medical industries can’t get any more fucked, somehow they hit a new low.

@brendoncahill6409 6 месяцев назад

The exploitation likely came from the top - people that facilitated the Federal money that created it. Exploitation of the vulnerable on this scale almost certainly had no regulation or monitoring, and the people that set it up knew that..

@CrookedSkew 5 месяцев назад

Thank you. Another excellent video.

@corncake4677 6 месяцев назад

Do people really think criminalizing drugs more is not also a scam and horrid solo as much as this

@Manticorn 6 месяцев назад

Hello, Georg! I am passionately Kentuckian and have been my whole life. I aspire to become a public defender and climb the ranks, maybe even a judge some day. I am very excited to get involved with local politics whenever I can. I care a whole lot about the landback movement and indigenous rights, after knowing what happened to my ancestors while having no tribal claims left myself. Did you know that Kentucky is the ONLY state in the Southeast to not have a Native American reservation (anymore)? If you have any ideas for community action, I would love if you got in touch. I always want to talk.

@taranullius9221 6 месяцев назад

This is terrible and heartbreaking. I am glad you covered this.

@taranullius9221 6 месяцев назад

Obviously this is wrong for anyone but Native Americans? Haven't they been through enough? Haven't you done enough? GDIATH.

@jill5775 6 месяцев назад

Great video thank you for the quips !!

@NASkeywest 4 месяца назад

Went to rehab in 2018. They had us housed right outside San Diego, CA in a massive house on the beach! It was $100,000 for 30 days! Multiply that by 13 clients at a time, year round. That’s over $1.3 a month just for the first 30 days. Not including the next 5 months! One person, one year can easily cost 1 million.

@UncleJoeJoe 6 месяцев назад

The only issue I see with your plan is I only have enough drugs & alcohol for myself, and I’m not going to share. (Also, wow! When I think the states is truly fucked up it gos and shows me it’s even more fucked up than I thought!)

@greenefieldmann3014 6 месяцев назад

When you say it's not just Arizona residents, you need to emphasize that it's people who choose to live in Arizona.

@Neozio 5 месяцев назад

11:26 I'm definitely going to have to share this with some other people I chat with. You haven't come up on my video feedist in a while and I get this piece of work. style of current fighting was going to come my time but it looks like it's here.