Late last year and early this year security industry experts made a lot of noise about how wide open to fraud healthcare.gov was.
I remember the experts saying security was not in the basic design of the web site and to try to add security now would almost impossible. Their recommendation was to start over.
I haven’t heard anything about this since. Anybody else?
A phony doctor creates a bunch of phony identifications that sign up for Owebamacare. Lets say 200 of them. They are fake and so is their reported very low income, thus they get free insurance and free Medicaid.
Now the fake doctor files claims for treatment of 100’s of fake patients to both an insurance company, and the federal government.
It’s 100% profit to the fake doctor, he doesn’t have to treat the fake patients, or have an office or equipment.
As a bonus he can sign them all up for food stamps and file fake tax returns and collect huge ‘earned income credit’ checks for them.
The government pays for all of it, so the insurance company would have no reason to check it out. They get the premium checks from the government, and the doctor has hundreds of satisfied patients!