6.4 million Americans may have been unwittingly enrolled in Obamacare via scammers.

The real outrage wouldn't fit in the title line: Researchers say those who were "unwittingly enrolled" were claimed to have such low incomes that they qualified to have their ENTIRE premium paid by taxpayers.

So by the rules of that ghastly crap-law, the federal gruberment sent billions of dollars of "subsidies" directly to insurance companies that claimed these people were "enrolled" in Obozo-care.

And because those enrolled were never billed, virtually none ever knew they'd been "enrolled" for "free" health-insurance, so most never made any claims on the insurance companies that were supposedly providing coverage.  So the insurance companies pocketed the entire premium without having to pay for any actual health-care.

Here's how it worked:  Scammers ("brokers") offered people "gift cards" in return for their personal information, which the "brokers" used to enroll them in Obozocare plans in which ALL the premiums were paid by "duh gruberment" (actually by working Americans with tax dollars).   

A 2021-2022 expansion of Affordable Care Act subsidies made coverage fully subsidized for individuals claiming incomes in a specific range. Paragon Health Institute investigated and estimated that by 2025, at least 6.4 million more people were enrolled in these zero-premium plans than were actually eligible.

Zero premium means the enrollee did not pay for the plan—it was paid entirely by taxpayers.  And in  2024, 40% of all Americans in fully subsidized plans used no healthcare services at all

Reportedly, unscrupulous brokers and enrollment agents found clients by advertising gift cards and free coverage, collecting personal information from callers, and enrolling them — often without their knowledge or consent.  Other enrollees were totally fictitious.

Many of the enrollees never realized they had coverage because the government paid the full premium directly to insurance companies, which then paid substantial commissions to the scammers.  

85% of all insurance company revenue now comes from premiums paid by government, meaning by taxpayers, so the companies have no incentives to offer products that are low-priced.  And no government employee questions the prices.

"Their primary client now is the United States Treasury, and they're so dependent on the federal government for their revenue source, that's why insurance companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying Congress to continue this gravy train of these enhanced Obamacare subsidies."

One remedy for Medicaid fraud, as well as other programs, is to shut off the federal money.  As long as states can get billions from Washington, they don't have any incentive to fight fraud.

In New York there has been an unprecedented spike in Medicaid-funded home health aides, who are often family members taking care of relatives, which creates fertile ground for fraud.  In California, fraud has found a home within the hospice care industry. 

https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/waste-fraud-minnesota-being-paid-taxpayers-outside-state