Affordable Care Act Exchanges Fail To Detect Counterfeit Documentation (atr.org)

Tulsa_Time writes with this excerpt of an account from the (unapologetically partisan) Americans for Tax Reform about a report released by the Government Accountability Office in which "application and enrollment controls on the federal exchange and two state exchanges (California and Kentucky)" were investigated by supplying false information; in each case, the investigators were able to obtain and activate health insurance through the exchanges. A slice: Ten fictitious applicants were created to test whether verification steps including validating an applicant's Social Security number, verifying citizenship, and verifying household income were completed properly. In order to test these controls, GAO's test applications provided fraudulent documentation: "For each of the 10 undercover applications where we obtained qualified health-plan coverage, the respective marketplace directed that our applicants submit supplementary documentation we provided counterfeit follow-up documentation, such as fictitious Social Security cards with impossible Social Security numbers, for all 10 undercover applications."

Comments

Re:So make sure they all get jailed for fraud

[I'm New Around Here]

Wow. Die hard Obamabot. It's amazing you can breath, with your head shoved so far up his ass.

Re:So make sure they all get jailed for fraud

[AK Marc]

Do doctors even check your ID? I've never had it happen, but I haven't gone since ACA.

Also, why is it the Conservative Nutjobs think you should have to have a Government ID to vote, move freely, and everything else, but don't want the government to keep enough information on them in a single file to verify that ID, so anyone can walk into, say, a Post Office and walk out with a free national ID?

Seems the answer to all these problems would be free Passports for all, required from age 12, and the new standard of ID for medical care, driving, and everything else.

For all their words otherwise, the Conservative Nutjobs seem to be marching us straight towards "Papers Please" in their hatred of the poor and non-residents.