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On the recordJuly 8, 2013
Last week, the administration once again adjusted the Affordable Care Act in an effort to try to save this takeover of the Nation's health care. On Friday, the latest change was announced: The new health care exchanges will not verify an individual's income for the year as was originally planned. By eliminating the verification requirement, how will the government determine who gets health care subsidies? They're going to use the honor system--because no one would lie about something like that. This will open the exchanges to a staggering amount of potential fraud. It is also clearly a political move. The administration has made it clear that they want as many people as possible to sign up for the exchanges so they can reap the public relations benefits of talking about the popularity of said exchanges. All of this comes at a time when the Federal health programs are already stricken with fraud, and now the administration wants to introduce a new program. This new program is based on self-attestation. Whatever happened to ``trust, but verify''? ____________________
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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