Fake applicants kept ObamaCare coverage, watchdog finds

[PoliticAverse]

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Eleven fictitious people created as part of an undercover watchdog effort were able to automatically re-enroll in ObamaCare coverage, a new report finds.

The report, from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, follows up on a GAO report last year. That report found that 11 of 12 fictitious people, with fake documents, were able to successfully enroll in ObamaCare coverage through the federal HealthCare.gov marketplace.

The follow-up report, released by congressional Republicans on Wednesday, finds that those 11 fictitious people were able to maintain their coverage through the end of 2014 and then were automatically re-enrolled for 2015. Some were re-enrolled even though no additional documentation was provided.

The marketplace later terminated coverage for six of the 11 people. But the GAO was able to reinstate five of the six fictitious applicants by calling the marketplace.

Read the rest at: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/248042-fake-applicants-kept-obamacare-coverage-watchdog-finds

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Report webpage: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-702T

[randys1]

1. Damn, so it isnt perfect and is subject to fraud like every other item known to humankind?

[Hoyt]

2. So a "fake" person signs up, pays premiums, uses no benefits. We need more fraud like that to keep

premiums low.

Now if some "fake" person lied and got a subsidy, or somehow ended up with money in their pocket, that would be a problem.

[PoliticAverse]

3. They actually received subsidies.

"The GAO applicants obtained a total of about $30,000 in annual advance premium tax credits"

From: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-702T

[Hoyt]

4. I should have checked out the GAO report. Although, I think they would have had to pay

premiums to get tax subsidies, but clearly the government needs to tighten that up.