It Sure Looks Like Obamacare is Rife with Fraud
John Sexton
The new Washington Post editorial board continues to be a surprise. I suspect they have posted more right-leaning material in the past 3 months than was published in the paper during Biden's entire term in office.
In any case, today the Post makes the case that Obamacare subsidies, the coming expiration of which was the stated reason Democrats shut down the government, should not be extended. Why? Because there is lots of evidence suggesting the program is rife with fraud.
On party-line votes in 2021 and 2022, Democrats invoked the pandemic emergency to temporarily expand eligibility for Obamacare insurance subsidies. Preserving these credits, which are due to expire at the end of the year, would cost $350 billion over the next decade. Democratic leaders are trying to keep the subsidies intact without reforms to address abuse that has grown rampant in the system.
A report issued last week by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office underscores why that should be a nonstarter.
The report they're referring to was published by the General Accounting Office (GAO). It's titled "Preliminary Results from Ongoing Review Suggest Fraud Risks in the Advance Premium Tax Credit Persist." What GAO staff did was create 20 fake identities and then apply for coverage as if they were real people.
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