Herschel Walker's ties to veterans program face scrutiny | WTOP News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : It's a for-profit program specifically marketed to veterans that is offered by Universal Health Services, one of the largest hospital chains in the U.S. Walker wasn't the program's founder, either.
55% : It was created 11 years before Universal Health Services says it hired Walker as a spokesman, which paid him a salary of $331,000 last year.
54% : A lengthy 2016 investigation by the website BuzzFeed included interviews with former patients, including a veteran, who said they went to Universal Health Services seeking a consultation or counseling only to find themselves held in inpatient care, sometimes against their will.
50% : Prosecutors allege Universal Health Services and its affiliates aggressively pushed those with government-sponsored insurance into inpatient mental health care to drive revenue.
50% : She also said some of the alleged conduct occurred before Universal Health Services purchased a group of hospitals operated by Ascend Health in 2012.
49% : Jane Crawford, a spokeswoman for Universal Health Services, denied the whistleblower's account of an aggressive marketing campaign to draw service members into the company's Patriot Support program.
49% : He is no longer contracted with Universal Health Services."
43% : A sprawling civil case brought against Universal Health Services by the the Department of Justice and nearly two dozen states alleges that Patriot Support was part of a broader effort by the company to defraud the government.
43% : Universal Health Services also denies the government's broader allegations and said it agreed to the settlement to "avoid the continuing costs and uncertainty of continued litigation."

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