Government employees who have lots of incentives to *lie* about what they see.
We need a private agency ala the Pinkertons (or, for that matter, the fictional IMF) that works in the shadows policing the government. The government at all levels is willfully terrible at policing itself.
Would make a hell of a good TV series, too ... :)
“Government employees who have lots of incentives to *lie* about what they see.”
I don’t know that it’s lying so much as it is that they can’t multi-task. You see the primary mission is to show the biggest possible number of “enrollments”. To do that you have to ignore a whole bunch of factors including the huge percentage that don’t pay their first premium, and the other percentage that fail to pay their subsequent premiums.
The fact that they can’t track any of those extra factors is by design.
Now if by some miracle Obamacare became a functioning system going forward, you can bet your fanny that the IRS will be able to tell you all about those in the non-payment category.