Obamacare is coming, and so are the con artists

As the debate rages over who benefits from the Affordable Care Act, one thing is becoming clear: The controversial program is a dream come true for rip-off artists.

Consumer experts warn that the program has created a huge opportunity for swindling people by stealing their money and their sensitive personal information.

"Any time you roll out a big government program like this, confusion is inevitable," said Lois Greisman, an associate director in the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission. "This confusion creates a tremendous opportunity for the fraudster."

Scammers have been at it for more than a year now, but consumer advocates and security experts warn that the problem will worsen as we get closer to Oct. 1. That's when the millions of uninsured Americans can use a health insurance exchange, set-up by their state or by the federal government, to shop for coverage.

"I believe the incidents are going to skyrocket as that date approaches," said Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center. "And even people who are smart and savvy could get taken, so we are very concerned about the potential for some serious financial harm."

"There are fake exchanges already up and running on the Internet," said Monica Lindeen, Montana's Commissioner of Securities and Insurance. "If you do a search and type in 'exchange,' you'll find all sorts of websites that claim to be in the exchange when they are not."

The Fraudster-in-Chief is in the public housing called the White Hut RIGHT NOW.

His voterbase won't pay a dime for Healthcare, anyway, so they are not at risk at ALL.

The ones at Risk are the Taxpayers and Earners who have to BUY their own Healthcare, AND pay for the parasites and losers that this whole scheme is designed to enrich/protect/vote-purchase....that's the same as EVERY OTHER SCHEME that is rolled out, to re-distribute wealth, and to take INCOME to use as the Government decides is "fair".

PPhood genital sniffers will be profiteering on the backs of taxpayers-—big opportunity to expand their abortion business.

Abortion worshipper Obama is putting genital-sniffers PPhood in control of O’care’s Data Hub (medical version of NSA).

PP sniffers will also be paid O’care “navigators.”

Let's get those lawsuits going, FReepers.

FR POSTED 8/13---OKLAHOMA WINS FIRST OCARE BATTLE: AG Pruitt--- "Obamacare was meant to be so open-ended that it could mean anything. We are seeing thousands of pages of new rules being written, both by HHS and the IRS.

The open-ended interpretation of Obamacare enables this.....if the law doesn't contain a particular provision, no problem. They just make it up as they go along. "

Such is the case that involves the winning Oklahoma lawsuit....... “The court rejected the federal government’s argument that Oklahoma lacked standing to challenge the law, allowing us to proceed with this pivotal case,” “We’re optimistic the court will recognize what states have known for months that the IRS disregarded the law by making the large employer mandate effective in Oklahoma or in any of the 33 other states without a state health care exchange.”

REFERENCE Oklahoma challenged implementation of the Affordable Care Act after the IRS finalized a rule that would allow the federal government to punish “large employers,” including local government, with millions of dollars in tax penalties in states without state health care exchanges, which is not allowed under the health care law.

“Congress provided a choice for Oklahoma and other states in implementation of the health care law, and the IRS is attempting to take that away by rule,” General Pruitt said.

“The administration miscalculated how many states would support this law, so now they’re using the IRS to push through provisions that Congress did not pass."

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