> Why Is Autism Exploding? Welfare Fraud Is One Reason

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Diagnosis rates of autism among children have more than tripled over the past 15 years. One reason, which Minnesota’s welfare scandal lays bare with shocking details, is Medicaid fraud and abuse.

Medicaid pays healthcare providers big bucks to diagnose and treat children with autism—sometimes tens of thousands of dollars a month for a single child. Yet states rarely verify that kids who are diagnosed actually meet the medical criteria for the disorder or that they get appropriate treatment from qualified specialists.

The result: Children covered by Medicaid or the government-run Children’s Health Insurance Program are 2.5 times as likely as those with private coverage to be diagnosed with autism. Many lower-income kids are labeled autistic merely because they have behavioral or developmental problems.

In 2014 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began requiring state Medicaid programs to cover autism therapy such as applied behavior analysis or ABA, a technique that uses positive reinforcement to improve social and communication skills. ObamaCare plans are also required to cover such therapy as an “essential benefit.”

Autism behavioral services “comprise one of the fastest growing healthcare industries in the United States,” the Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General noted last year in an audit of the state’s Medicaid program. “There is an increased need for vigilance in program integrity to keep pace with the growing number of ABA providers.”

In Minnesota, the number of autism providers soared 700%, and payments to them increased 3,000% between 2018 and 2023. According to a federal indictment, Asha Farhan Hassan set up the ABA therapy provider Smart Therapy, which employed young relatives with no formal education beyond a high school education as “behavioral technicians.”

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-is-auti … amp;page=1

This is a Somali scam; the Somalis - who have taken over Minneapolis - open autism "clinics," fleece the government, and send the money back to Somalia (often to terrorists like Al Shabbab). 

Operation Gothic Serpent was thirty years ago - we've been fighting these people for thirty years, and Obama and other Dems opened the door and carpet-bombed white States like Minnesota with these low IQ monsters.  Not a single, solitary one has been of benefit to America - not one. 

This is one of a thousand reasons every single Somali has to go back NOW!

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I thought it was Tylenol. Baggers need to get their stories straight.

You are a stupid person.