Nevada Republican with quack ‘cancer is a fungus’ cure loses healthcare business license

[Galraedia]

Source: Raw Story

A GOP lawmaker who claimed that cancer is a fungus that can be treated with salt water has had the license for her home healthcare business in Nevada pulled, reports KTNV.

Republican Assemblywoman Michele Fiore’s home based “Always There 4 You” health care company has been under investigation by the state after she refused to allow inspectors to look at her books despite receiving $6 million in Medicaid funding over a five year period.

After Fiore refused to meet with auditors and threatened officials with political retaliation, the Nevada Bureau of Health Care Quality and Compliance pulled the flamboyant lawmaker’s license on Tuesday after being unable to contact her.

Inspectors who showed up at Fiore’s headquarters — after she failed to respond to a registered letter — found a new company moving into her former place of business.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/nevada-republican-with-quack-cancer-is-a-fungus-cure-loses-healthcare-business-license

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Just another day in Nevada Politics.

Got this POS as a State Representative for our District. Nobody seems to know what the status of her IRS Tax Liens and Judgements. And our neighbors think she is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

[AllyCat]

2. Why are there not more reds on this?

[jmowreader]

3. Not "salt water," folks

According to the linked article, her super secret cancer cure involves injections of sodium carbonate solution.

Sodium carbonate is also called "washing soda." It is HIGHLY alkaline. Yeah, it'd wash the flesh with the cancer right out of you, followed almost immediately by the flesh without the cancer.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Sodium carbonate is technically a "salt"

but not "table salt" (sodium chloride) that most people associate the term "salt" with. Sodium bicarbonate is baking soda as a side note.

[jmowreader]

8. Rush Limbaugh is technically a "human being"

Technicalities aside, quacks injecting washing soda solutions into your body is not such a good idea.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. As a chemist myself, it's obvious they are nuts

and basically get added to a centuries long list of snake oil-promoting carnival barkers.

[passiveporcupine]

4. OMG...6 million in Medicaid funding?

She's a crazy lady. But that is outright fraud and I hope she does not get away with it. I wonder how many people she has actually defrauded with her magic cures? And don't you have to be a doctor to do that?

This is one crazy story.

[PosterChild]

6. Another win for . ..

red tape !

According to a statement from Fiore, she claims she decided to close the business due to government red tape.

Red tape doing what red tape is supposed to do !

[tabasco]

7. Fungi like shiitake mushrooms have substances that actually fight cancer

It takes a special kind of cretin to defraud ill, fearful people.

[Arkana]

10. I just lost my mother after a 3 year battle with that "fungus".

I hope this woman has the fucking book thrown at her and that she spends the rest of her life in a cell so she can't sucker any more desperate cancer patients. Disgusting.