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Beers family members built a “conglomerate” by selling a Christian alternative to traditional health insurance. They are now scrambling for cash, even though they received millions in PPP loans that were later forgiven.

Members of the Beers family of Canton, OH, built a “conglomerate” by selling a Christian alternative to traditional health insurance. Even after getting millions from forgiven PPP loans, they’re now scrambling for cash.

Beers family members built a “conglomerate” by selling a Christian alternative to traditional health insurance. They’re now scrambling for cash, even though they received millions in PPP loans that were later forgiven.

Despite a history of fraud, one family has thrived in the regulatory no man’s land of health care sharing ministries, where insurance commissioners can’t investigate, federal agencies turn a blind eye and prosecutors reach paltry settlements

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Bonnie Martin kept the bleeding secret for as long as she could. Her sisters, boyfriend and sons knew nothing of her illness until suddenly, during a family gathering in October 2018 at a diner in Annapolis, Maryland, she began hemorrhaging.

Despite a history of fraud, one family has thrived in the regulatory no man’s land of health care sharing ministries, where insurance commissioners can’t investigate, federal agencies turn a blind eye and prosecutors reach paltry settlements.

Liberty HealthShare employs roughly 470 people at its two offices on Fulton Drive NW and Hills and Dales Road NW.