Joan! This was the stuff I was telling you about earlier.
Apparently, there was this insane fraud involving major hospitals that "recruited" homeless people from Skid Row and brought them in to the hospital to receive treatment or just to "occupy beds." Its a crazy scam that hospitals used to milk money from government insurance programs.
The homeless people were compensated too: money, food, cigarettes.
One homeless person admitted to being constantly recruited and receiving unneeded treatment in return for cash to buy coke.
Check it for yourself in the New York Times article.
The LA Times has a page with news, editorials, and pictures on Skid Row.
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