Roger Marshall: “healthcare is in a crisis. What Republicans want to do is put patients in charge, not insurance companies. But the first…”

“healthcare is in a crisis. What Republicans want to do is put patients in charge, not insurance companies. But the first thing we need to do to fix ObamaCare is to address the fraud in ObamaCare. If we can't agree on this, I don't know how we can possibly begin to fix ObamaCare. I refer everyone to the recent week's Government Accounting Office report. They show people enrolled without consent, subsidies flowing from the Federal Government to insurance companies from people who don't even know they are enrolled in ObamaCare. They show that there were toddlers enrolled in ObamaCare. They demonstrated 58,000 dead people who were enrolled in ObamaCare, each of them having premiums sent to insurance companies on their dead body's behalf for some 9 months on average. We saw one Social Security number being used over and over again. In fact, over a third of the people on ObamaCare didn't file a claim. Now, I am not saying that all those people are fraudulent. In a group of otherwise healthy folks, maybe 20 percent of people don't file a claim. But from 2021 to 2024, we saw that the number of people not filing a claim went from 19 percent to 35 percent, and that is when the enhanced subsidies kicked in, and therefore many people had zero premiums, so the Federal Government was paying their entire premium. Again, we think that this report demonstrates billions of dollars of fraud, very often estimated at some $25 billion. That is why we introduced our bill, S.…”