Chuck Grassley: “on Monday, the Wall Street Journal editorial board published an article titled ``ObamaCare is a Mecca For Fraud.'' It…”

“on Monday, the Wall Street Journal editorial board published an article titled ``ObamaCare is a Mecca For Fraud.'' It articulates the waste, fraud, and abuse in the ObamaCare Program, so I am going to read this article on the floor today and do it for the benefit of my colleagues that maybe don't always read these editorials. So quoting, and I will try to leave out commentary comment. If I do that, I will identify it as such. The Minnesota Medicaid grift illustrates how open-ended government welfare can easily become an inducement for fraud. A new Government Accountability Office report finds the pandemic-era sweetened ObamaCare subsidies are . . . ripe for gaming. The GAO last fall began an undercover test in which it submitted insurance applications for fictitious individuals to the federal ObamaCare exchange and insurance brokers. Nearly all of its invented people were able to enroll in subsidized plans despite submitting false or no records to verify their identities and incomes. Of GAO's 24 applications, 23 were approved. Eighteen enrollees were still covered as of September, suggesting that the exchange and insurers didn't verify information even after enrollment. The subsidies paid to insurance companies for those 18 applicants totalled more than $10,000 per month, equivalent to a $6,700 annual subsidy for each enrollee. GAO says in some cases ``we were not prompted to provide documentation'' to verify an applicant's identity. No Social Security number?…”