Posted on 11/10/2013 12:37:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
To the list of problems plaguing President Obama’s health care law, add one more — fraud.
With millions of Americans frustrated and bewildered by the trouble-prone federal website for health insurance, con men and unscrupulous marketers are seizing their chance. State and federal authorities report a rising number of consumer complaints, ranging from deceptive sales practices to identity theft, linked to the Affordable Care Act.
Madeleine Mirzayans was fooled when a man posing as a government official knocked on her door. Barbara Miller and Maevis Ethan were pitched by telemarketers who claimed to work for Medicaid. And Buford Price was almost caught by another trap: websites that look official but are actually bait set by fly-by-night insurance operators....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Probably has a $30,000 deductable.
Oh gee. Never saw that coming. Slap me upside m’hade.
The Unhealthy Truth About Obamacare's Contractors (Fraud, Corruption)The post, “Meet Serco, the private firm getting $1.2 billion to process your Obamacare application,” reported that 90 percent of Serco’s U.S. business is with the federal government and that the 25-year-old firm pretty much owes its existence to government contracting. In this case, Serco won a contract that will pay it $114 million in 2013 and that eye-popping number of $1.2 billion over the next five years. According to one outside study, it’s the largest single contract for implementing the Affordable Care Act,...
You can't escape them - They are on TV every day.
Brand new spa, never used! Still in box! $3999!!
All spring and summer long for the past 10 years.
"Hey, baby, I gots us 25 mo new identities today!! Merry Christmas and thank you, Brother Barack! He sho is distributin the wealth!"
Con Man Preys on the Low Information Voter.
More now in poverty than in the history of the United States.
This is the Obama legacy.
...The president will not be prosecuted, of course, but that is immaterial. As discussed here before, the remedy for profound presidential corruption is political, not legal. It is impeachment and removal. “High crimes and misdemeanors” — the Constitution’s predicate for impeachment — need not be indictable offenses under the criminal code. “They relate chiefly,” Hamilton explained in Federalist No. 65, “to injuries done immediately to the society itself.” They involve scandalous breaches of the public trust by officials in whom solemn fiduciary duties are reposed — like a president who looks Americans in the eye and declares, repeatedly, that they can keep their health insurance plans . . . even as he studiously orchestrates the regulatory termination of those plans; even as he shifts blame to the insurance companies for his malfeasance…
Great News, hope anyone who signs up gets robbed.......
The Old Gray Whore finds a molehill, nay an ant hill , while ignoring the grand fraud, the greatest in American history perpetrated by a lying President
you mean HHS conmen?
The con men tell you that you are going to get a great deal, tell you that you can keep you old deal if you want, charge you twice as much for half as much, and then claim they never knew anything when even the total idiots catch on to the con game.
Yea, I'm making $80k/year working 3hrs a wk, and to make an extra $200 a week, I'm going to spend the rest of my time getting people to take over the 37hrs/wk that I'm doing nothing.
A sucker votes Democrat every minute.
Sexist headline! Like only men can be fraudsters?
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