The $100 Million Operation

Rip-off of the Ontario Health Insurance Plan.

This follow-up aired on the program W5 of CTV Television on 8 June 1997. First it featured the entire story as it was aired 7 months earlier. Then it concluded as given here.
As seen on W5 ... While Ontario's bureaucrats and politicians - past and present - are stuck in the throes of collective amnesia, south of the border NME (National Medical Enterprises) has been giving in to the crushing weight of evidence against it.
W5 speaker W5 correspondent: "In 1993 National Medical Enterprises settled out of court with a group of American insurance companies for 214 million dollars. A few months later it was the U.S. federal government's turn. They collected 379 million dollars to repay Medicare and Medicaid. The largest fraud settlement in U.S. history."

Texas lawyer can't understand why
Ontario isn't
coming to get it's money back. Texas lawyer James Moriarty can't understand why even today the conservative government of Ontario isn't flying on down to try to get it's money back.
OHIP doesn't have sense to pour
piss out of a boot James Moriarty: "Well, OHIP doesn't have sense to pour piss out of a boot. This is the best example of fraud in healthcare that there is ever going to be. You are never going to see it this clearly with this many witnesses, with this many people who acknowledged the fraud in that. I believe that just like if you owned a bank and somebody robbed the bank you would say 'I want the money back'."

Jim Wilson is the Ontario Minister
of health. Jim Wilson is the Ontario Minister of Health: "We've had three legal opinions who say it may not be the best advice to spend another million dollars of tax payers' money to take the chance to get the money back."

Sandy Rinaldo Sandy Rinaldo: "But so far no one from the Ontario government has contacted any of the American law firms who successfully collected millions on behalf of their American clients."

Ontario legislature When that's story first appeared on W5 last fall it stirred an immediate fury in the Ontario Legislature. The opposition liberals were eager to tell the Health Minister all about the rip-off.
Opposition speaker: "I will tell him that the W5 story raised some serious questions regarding the management of OHIP, and frankly the minister's incompetence."
Ontario Health Minister Jim Wilson (Health Minister): "As I told W5 in a 20 minute interview I'd be happy to have any law firm in the world take on this case."
Sandy Rinaldo Sandy: "Happy perhaps, but certainly not hasty. Seven months after we first brought you that story, the Ontario government has still not launched legal action to recover it's share of the 100 million dollars. The province insists that it is considering a law suit but so far nothing has been done."

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	... While Ontario's bureaucrats and politicians - past and present - are stuck in the throes of collective amnesia, south of the border NME (National Medical Enterprises) has been giving in to the crushing weight of evidence against it.
	W5 correspondent: "In 1993 National Medical Enterprises settled out of court with a group of American insurance companies for 214 million dollars. A few months later it was the U.S. federal government's turn. They collected 379 million dollars to repay Medicare and Medicaid. The largest fraud settlement in U.S. history."
	Texas lawyer James Moriarty can't understand why even today the conservative government of Ontario isn't flying on down to try to get it's money back.
	James Moriarty: "Well, OHIP doesn't have sense to pour piss out of a boot. This is the best example of fraud in healthcare that there is ever going to be. You are never going to see it this clearly with this many witnesses, with this many people who acknowledged the fraud in that. I believe that just like if you owned a bank and somebody robbed the bank you would say 'I want the money back'."
	Jim Wilson is the Ontario Minister of Health: "We've had three legal opinions who say it may not be the best advice to spend another million dollars of tax payers' money to take the chance to get the money back."
	Sandy Rinaldo: "But so far no one from the Ontario government has contacted any of the American law firms who successfully collected millions on behalf of their American clients."
	When that's story first appeared on W5 last fall it stirred an immediate fury in the Ontario Legislature. The opposition liberals were eager to tell the Health Minister all about the rip-off.
	Opposition speaker: "I will tell him that the W5 story raised some serious questions regarding the management of OHIP, and frankly the minister's incompetence."
	Jim Wilson (Health Minister): "As I told W5 in a 20 minute interview I'd be happy to have any law firm in the world take on this case."
	Sandy: "Happy perhaps, but certainly not hasty. Seven months after we first brought you that story, the Ontario government has still not launched legal action to recover it's share of the 100 million dollars. The province insists that it is considering a law suit but so far nothing has been done."