While this is simply a more egregious case....Union health benefits are largely a tax payer funded  fraud from the get go.
No civil servant in Ottawa would go 6 months without using up his/her ? $500/yr of massage therapy...
Ergonomic assessments,orthotics,reflexology and chiropractic...etc etc
Look at US TV....
"call now for this amazing back brace and we will arrange Medicaid paper work."