Investors Business Daily has an editorial – an extremely important one – describing how easily ObamaCare can be scammed. Here are a few excerpts:
Integrity: An undercover operation shows how ridiculously easy it is to defraud ObamaCare. Even after officials learned investigators had set up several bogus accounts in June of last year, they failed to catch any of them.
The Government Accountability Office report reads like something out of the Onion – that comical fake news site. Except this isn\’t funny.
A dozen undercover auditors tried to enroll in ObamaCare using fake Social Security numbers, phony IDs and bogus citizenship papers.
The auditors should have been an easy catch, since ObamaCare had promised to build a “data hub” that would instantly check such information against records at the IRS, INS, Social Security and Homeland Security.
Instead, 11 of the 12 got their coverage, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars in improper subsidies.
This tragic comedy of errors went on for 16 months.
The public already hates ObamaCare. When it learns that the Obama administration has practically put the welcome mat out for fraud, the Democrats\’ health care overhaul is going to be even less popular.
Are you appalled? I assume the answer is yes.
Are you surprised? If so, then I am appalled.
Is this a statement about ObamaCare alone? Or does it make you think about how easy it is to defraud the govenment in other areas as well – such as, for example, voter fraud?
Think about it.
