Rampant fraud the standard condition on ObamaCare exchanges

Rampant fraud the standard condition on ObamaCare exchanges

By: streiff (Diary)  |  July 24th, 2014 at 08:23 AM

http://www.redstate.com/2014/07/24/rampant-fraud-standard-condition-obamacare-exchanges

The #FAIL in ObamaCare continues to exceed anyone’s wildest imagination. Via the Washington Post:

   

According to testimony to be delivered before a House Ways and Means subcommittee, undercover GAO investigators tried to obtain health plans for a dozen fictitious applicants online or by phone, using invalid or missing Social Security numbers or inaccurate citizenship information.

All but one of the fake applicants ended up getting subsidized coverage — and have kept it. In one instance, an application was denied but then approved on a second try. In six other attempts to sign up fake applicants via in-person assisters, just one assister accurately told an investigator that the applicant’s income was too high for a subsidy.

The GAO’s account of fictitious applicants obtaining subsidized coverage goes beyond a related problem that surfaced this spring and that the investigators also cited: The government may be paying incorrect insurance subsidies to a significant share of the 5.4 million Americans who signed up for health plans for this year through the federal marketplace.

To date virtually no part of ObamaCare has worked as advertised but the subsidy system seems to be little more than a huge pot of money available to virtually anyone without regard to eligibility:

“We are seeing a trend with Obamacare information systems: under every rock, there is incompetence, waste and the potential for fraud,” committee Chairman Dave Camp, a Michigan Republican, told NBC News. “Last month, we found that the administration was unable to verify income or eligibility for insurance subsidies. Now, we learn that in many cases, the exchange is unable to screen out fake identities or documents.”

Taken in its totality, ObamaCare must be viewed as a program that simply cannot be reformed. Not only is the underlying concept, the federal government seizing control of the market for health and medical insurance, utterly corrupt but each part of the law either defies norms of human behavior, is rife with fraud and abuse, or is simply nonsense. The only solution is to remove it, root and branch, and return to the status quo ante.

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James Roosevelt Jr. was an associate commissioner for the Social Security Administration, is a governor for the Roosevelt Institute, and a director at America's Health Insurance Plans.

Note: John Brademas is a governor at the Roosevelt Institute, and a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.

Jonathan Soros is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, George Soros’s son, and was the vice chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

George Soros is Jonathan Soros’s father, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a supporter for the Center for American Progress.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute, the Committee for Economic Development, and the Center for American Progress.

Center for American Progress was a funder for America's Health Insurance Plans.

Donna S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.

CGI Group Inc. was the Obamacare contractor that developed Healthcare.gov web site.

Obamacare is Barack Obama’s signature policy initiative.

Jeffrey D. Zients oversaw repairs to Healthcare.gov for Obamacare, and the acting director for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

Ezekiel Emanuel was the health care policy adviser for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget for the Barack Obama administration, is Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother, and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Center for American Progress was a funder for America's Health Insurance Plans.

Rahm I. Emanuel is Ezekiel Emanuel’s brother, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor, and was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.

Valerie B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Center for American Progress was a funder for America's Health Insurance Plans.

James Roosevelt Jr. is a director at America's Health Insurance Plans, a governor for the Roosevelt Institute, and was an associate commissioner for the Social Security Administration.